Arguments Against Police Brutality

Throughout numerous centuries police brutality has been a consecutive issue in the world. But rather than trying to help solve the conflict, governments ignore the cruelty that goes on in the police department by police officers such as killing, beating and abusing their power on innocent civilians and incarcerated people. What’s bazaar is that the reasons it happens, police officers target minorities and inmates to perform these cruel acts of behavior being they know that they are the most vulnerable in this society. Maybe if the government was more involved in these complications; there would be more of a sense hope to solve and prevent this matter. If the government were to place certain laws and consequences that would be followed by police …show more content…
Just based of my prior knowledge, police officers have performed so many killings of African American men because they claimed to be “in fear for their life” (“Three Chicago cops indicted in alleged cover-up of Laquan McDonald shooting details”). But, this common phrase has always been the excuse for killing an African American male. For the reason being that we being colored people are portrayed as violent for many centuries. Perhaps if we weren't stereotyped and portrayed this way police officers, who in my honest opinion should not go based off these statements, have a valid excuse in court to persuade the jury that they were in danger and had to take a life for their life. But, always being ignored is the presents of a weapon of that black person being shot. On majority of the cases that is brought up in Black Lives Matter movements and speeches on the news given after an African American male is killed, none of them ever had a weapon in their possession to even be a threat towards someone with multiple weapons yet, they were still being made out as a