With all the media attention and also by focusing on these situations only taking place with minorities, it has created an “Us vs. Them” mentality. Us vs. them can be related to the law enforcement and citizens due to the results of how police are not accepted in their communities anymore. In minority communities, law enforcement are disproportionally White Americans and the population of the community is African America (Baker, Goodman, Muellerjune 2015). In these communities, African Americans cannot relate to officers and as an effect, will reject help and also send off the message “that we don’t need or respect you in our neighborhoods”. The way recently that the media has covered police misconduct shows that more African Americans are
