Examples Of Racial Injustice In America

Racial injustice in America: the black man In recent times, there have been series of incidents involving the police and the black man. Because of the never-ending systemic racism, racial profiling, racial inequality, and police brutality that black people experience in the hands of the police and the justice system, the Black Lives Matter movement was formed. It was formed to raise awareness for these biased treatments that black people encounter. They help people and families affected by injustice simply by organizing protests, but despite the awareness and pressure for racial injustice to stop, there is always another incident; either a police officer killing an innocent black person, or a white person getting a ‘slap on the wrist’ for a hate …show more content…
If Garner wasn’t black, he might still be alive today, because more often, the police use excessive force to subdue mostly, black people. Pantaleo was investigated for his actions. Goldstein and Schweber states that, “at the center of the inquiry is the officer’s use of a chokehold — a dangerous maneuver that was banned by the New York Police Department more than 20 years ago, but that the department cannot seem to be rid of”’ (nytimes.com/2014/07/19/nyregion/staten-island-man-dies-after-he-is-put-in-chokehold-during-arrest.html). Sadly, the grand jury of Staten Island did not indict Pantaleo. Another victim of a recent case of racial inequality was Kalief Browder: as reported in the New York Times- a 16-year-old boy who was ‘abducted’ by the NYPD and put in jail for 3 years without trial. Two years after his release, he committed suicide- he couldn’t take it anymore. A young boy’s life was stolen from him because of a broken criminal justice system that doesn’t favor black lives. Also, in a column in the Washington Informer, Malveaux says