How Does Social Media Effect Police Brutality

Police brutality is force by law enforcement officers that isn’t necessary for a situation. Police brutality is believed to be racist and unfair. In some situations it is believed that it happens more to African Americans, than other races. We learn about most real situations of police brutality on social media, television, and articles in the newspaper. It is so easy for our sources to exaggerate or lie in the stories they tell. We decide what we think based on what we hear or watch. Social media is showing us what they want us to see, and not the whole story. I chose to research the impact of social media impacting what we think of police brutality. We believe what we hear from these stories and it doesn't tell us everything that is happening. People could have biased opinions on situations when they do not know the whole story. Most people in the U.S believe that more African Americans experience police brutality, than other races. This is not true at all, in 2015, seven hundred and thirty-two caucasian people were shot by police, three hundred and eighty-one African Americans and three hundred and eighty-two other races. Social media and the news can easily contort the story before it is seen. The only people who know the whole truth were part of the story. A CNN news reporter even …show more content…
People will always feel and think how they always have. The people of our country do not get to choose what gets put out into the world. All we can do is not believe everything we hear, because it may not always be true. There are three sides to a story, your side, the opposing side, and the truth. We shouldn’t protest or riot police brutality. What good are you doing by destroying things? Instead of protesting something that already happened, try finding a way to solve it. We get to decide how we react to a situation, not how a situation goes. So social media does decide what we see, but we need to decide if we believe