This cultural perspective paper will be on police brutality. This diverse situation and dilemma is our main problem of today’s society. This situation involves more than one cultural group. As we know it deals with white law enforcement and young black females and males. Police brutality has been going on for year just hasn’t been so main stream as it is today. According to (Anon,2018) Hubert Locke writes,
“When used in print or as the battle cry in a black power rally, police brutality can by implication cover a number of practices, from calling a citizen by his or her first name to a death by a policeman's bullet. What the average citizen thinks of when he hears the term, however, is something midway between these two occurrences, something …show more content…
For me living in this crazy time we living in now it’s hard because I am a black female. Know how the police view us is hard. Not knowing if I may get killed if I get stopped or if I’m just walking down the road and get stopped by some strange that feels like I’m a threat to them. Being black has always been hard but now it’s even worst. You never know when something might go wrong. It’s like a constant looking over your shoulder for the threat. This topic is dear to me like I stated before because I am black and I have heard and seen these actions take place. It’s a cultural norm for police to pull over blacks more than other ethnic race. The police has always thought we was a threat to them and they was the one who was a threat. Even back a few years ago with the black panther leader getting killed because they thought he was a threat to the society when in all reason the police just don’t want the blacks to rise up and be in control of their own lives. In an article I read it had stated that the “Black Panthers Fred Hampton, 21, and Mark Clark, 22, are gunned down by 14 police officers as they lie sleeping in their Chicago, Illinois, apartment. About a hundred bullets had been fired in what police described as a fierce gun battle with members of the Black Panther Party. However, ballistics experts later determined that only one of those bullets came from the Panthers’ side. In addition, the “bullet holes” in the front door of the apartment, which police pointed to as evidence that the Panthers had been shooting from within the apartment, were actually nail holes created by police in an attempt to cover up the attack. Four other Black Panthers were wounded in the raid, as well as two police officer”(Pbs.org,2018).This happened back in
“When used in print or as the battle cry in a black power rally, police brutality can by implication cover a number of practices, from calling a citizen by his or her first name to a death by a policeman's bullet. What the average citizen thinks of when he hears the term, however, is something midway between these two occurrences, something …show more content…
For me living in this crazy time we living in now it’s hard because I am a black female. Know how the police view us is hard. Not knowing if I may get killed if I get stopped or if I’m just walking down the road and get stopped by some strange that feels like I’m a threat to them. Being black has always been hard but now it’s even worst. You never know when something might go wrong. It’s like a constant looking over your shoulder for the threat. This topic is dear to me like I stated before because I am black and I have heard and seen these actions take place. It’s a cultural norm for police to pull over blacks more than other ethnic race. The police has always thought we was a threat to them and they was the one who was a threat. Even back a few years ago with the black panther leader getting killed because they thought he was a threat to the society when in all reason the police just don’t want the blacks to rise up and be in control of their own lives. In an article I read it had stated that the “Black Panthers Fred Hampton, 21, and Mark Clark, 22, are gunned down by 14 police officers as they lie sleeping in their Chicago, Illinois, apartment. About a hundred bullets had been fired in what police described as a fierce gun battle with members of the Black Panther Party. However, ballistics experts later determined that only one of those bullets came from the Panthers’ side. In addition, the “bullet holes” in the front door of the apartment, which police pointed to as evidence that the Panthers had been shooting from within the apartment, were actually nail holes created by police in an attempt to cover up the attack. Four other Black Panthers were wounded in the raid, as well as two police officer”(Pbs.org,2018).This happened back in