“Racism can be described as a persons’ view that he or she is superior to another because of racial differences” (Hanser and Gomila 2015). Racism has going on since before the United States was founded. Police officers are supposed to be treating every person who they deal with on an everyday equally, no matter what the color of their skin is or where they came from. Police officers have to follow a strict code of conduct, which includes ethics and morals. Ethics can be described as doing something that you know can get you in to a lot of trouble. “Morals are principles of right and wrong (Pollock, pg. 6). This means that they have to know the right thing to do when they approach a suspect, either at a traffic stop or at a scene of a crime
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Police brutality is any use of excessive force when dealing with civilians (Danilia, 2015). There is no way that this case would not be considered police brutality because the officers did not have any reason to hit Rodney 56 times with their police batons and kicked him six times. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation hate crime could be considered “criminal offense against someone’s race, religion, disability, ethnic origin or sexual orientation” (FBI, 2015). The Rodney King beating has caused a lot of problems with the relationship between police and the public because of what the police did to Mr. King, there was a lot of riots occurred in Los Angeles. There are two big reason why people decided to start riots in Los Angeles, the first reason everyone saw the news and the news stationed aired the video of the attack and it got them mad. The second reason is the verdict from the jury came out and they did not like the officers were found not
Police brutality is any use of excessive force when dealing with civilians (Danilia, 2015). There is no way that this case would not be considered police brutality because the officers did not have any reason to hit Rodney 56 times with their police batons and kicked him six times. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation hate crime could be considered “criminal offense against someone’s race, religion, disability, ethnic origin or sexual orientation” (FBI, 2015). The Rodney King beating has caused a lot of problems with the relationship between police and the public because of what the police did to Mr. King, there was a lot of riots occurred in Los Angeles. There are two big reason why people decided to start riots in Los Angeles, the first reason everyone saw the news and the news stationed aired the video of the attack and it got them mad. The second reason is the verdict from the jury came out and they did not like the officers were found not