Eric Garner, an unarmed 43-year-old African-American male, was choked to death on July 17, 2014, by an NYPD police officer after being arrested for selling untaxed cigarettes. Many news reports including NY Daily News stated that Eric Garner yelled “I can’t breathe”, repeatedly after at least 5 NYPD officers took him down in front of a Tompkinsville beauty supply store when he recoiled at being handcuffed. Within only a few moments Garner stopped struggling and appeared unconscious as police called paramedics to the scene. The Department of Justice posted a statement from the Attorney General Holder regarding the investigation on December 3rd, 2014. In the statement, the Attorney General stated that the local investigation concluded that they grand jury declined to return a formal accusation in the case, so the Justice Department would proceed with a federal civil rights investigation.…
Sandra Bland, a 28-year woman, dead. Trayvon Martin, an 18 year old boy, dead. Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old male, dead. Tamir Rice, a 12-year old boy, dead.…
“I’m going to put wings on pigs today. They take 1 of ours…Let’s take 2 of theirs #ShootThePolice #RIPEricGarner #RIPMikeBrown This may be my final post”(Mueller, Baker) posted Ismaaiyl Abdullah Brinsley on Instagram hours before brutally killing two NYPD officers. On December 20, 2014, NYPD officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu were brutally executed by Ismaaiyl Abdullah Brinsley who committed the acts under the motive of revenge for the deaths of Eric Garner, Michael Brown and others who died due to police brutality. Prior to the shootings, Brinsley shot his ex-girlfriend, who reported the incident to the Baltimore Police.…
Research Project: Michael Brown As a matter of fact, about 2,500 unarmed people had been killed in the past 2 years and 331 African American this year have been killed already by police brutality. Michael Brown was the unarmed innocent teen who was shot and killed on August 9, 2014 by Darren Wilson a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri that made nationwide news. Some important background information to know about the Michael Brown case are words like police brutality, black lives matter, and people Michael Brown and Darren Wilson. Police brutality is acts of violence committed by police.…
Footage from the police dash cam showed the officer forcing Bland out of the car, threatening to ‘light her up. ' Police killings of unarmed black citizens have become frequent in America. This has caused the uprising of the 'black lives matter ' movement. The death of Sandra Bland is seen by blacks as a case of police brutality.…
There was a bystander who recorded the officer who tried to arrest Garner. The bystander claimed that he had witnessed Garner trying to break up a fight before he was approached and questioned by the law enforcement officer. When Garner disputed the officer’s claims, things got physical and the officer put Garner in a chokehold. The NYPD bans chokeholds, but that didn’t stop the officer from performing one as well as several others who helped hold him down. In the video, it was evident that Eric Garner kept repeating that he couldn’t breathe.…
In society today there are several events that are taken seriously by the community, the government and the people. I am going to talk about how the “law enforcement” is handling African American males in regular/irregular situations. In beautiful Baltimore, Maryland on April 19, 2015 a 25-year-old black man died in police custody one week after being arrested. Freddie Gray’s death was ruled to be a homicide and the six officers who were involved had legal charges issued. The charges were not high enough for the people to be satisfied and this caused several protests following his funeral.…
Riots have ensued because of court’s ruling in the officer’s favor when they shouldn’t have. Officers, such as Betty Shelby, Ray Tensing and Daniel Pantaleo, were let go of all charges because of their status. Daniel Pantaleo was a NYCPD officer who held Eric Garner in a chokehold, which later lead to his death in 2014. Pantaleo was not charged with murder or even manslaughter. Betty Shelby was an officer in Tulsa, Oklahoma and he killed Terence Crutcher in 2016.…
It took the nation by storm and african americans that were relying on Obama to help them were waiting for their thought to be hero to make the decisions they thought to be coming. They were wrong when Obama couldn’t do much about the situation. He had to side with the law enforcement as he had no choice, but as an african american himself couldn’t act like the incident wasn’t a hate crime. If he sided with a certain side he could easily get into trouble with the wrong group of people. So when faced with the incident from a question by the press, he stayed neutral and didn’t side with either law enforcement or the african american people that were wanting his help.…
“Black Lives Matter” Movement & Police Brutality As much as the subjects of “Black Lives Matter” and police brutality are getting stale and cliché, unfortunately it is still an issue that will not be corrected by hushed complaints and sweeping under the rug. However, this problem is not brand new; it has only escalated. Racial discrimination began in the times of slavery and has been an issue since—well forever. The discrimination has been toughest on minorities—like the African-American community. Along with the racial discrimination from society itself, some police and law enforcement figures have often abused their power and taken advantage of their place in the majority race.…
A big topic that has risen in the past year is racism. Kathleen McCarthy, President of Smith College, sent an email to her students regarding to the deaths of two boys, Eric Garner and Michael Brown. In the email, she stated that all lives matter, this caused many students to criticize her for referring to the opposition of the saying “Black Lives Matter”. Many police officers today are now being criticized and presumed guilty when approaching any black man that is in the wrong. This kind of behavior should not be happening because it is causing our law enforcement not to be able to do their jobs to the best of their abilities.…
August 9th of 2014, an African American male who was eighteen years of age named Michael Brown was killed in Ferguson, Missouri. It was shown that minutes before his death Mr. Brown was earlier at the local liquor store stealing cigarillos. Mr. Wilson, of 28 years, was the police officer that picked up on the situation as he saw someone to appear as to what the suspect looked like. Once stopping Michael, and him cooperating onto the sidewalk, there was later an altercation between Mr. Brown and Officer Darren Wilson, who is of white heritage. Moments later, Michael Brown was shot and killed by Wilson, after having the officer chase him.…
Remember, there are two officers on the scene. As one officer chokes Eric, the other officer then start pushing his head into the ground. While all of this is going on, Eric Garner kept saying that he can’t breathe. The two officers,…
(Mansfield). This black male was simply selling CDs when police officers treated him like a criminal and ended his life. There was a chain reaction…
Throughout history, African Americans, as a group, endure various forms of brutality. Long ago in the United States, entire towns would capture innocent African Americans and kill them in mobs. This horrendous act is known as lynching. Now, while African American brutality exists on a smaller scale than it used to, it still occurs in exorbitant amounts. One of the most infamous cases of police brutality against a black person was that of Rodney King.…