Police Brutality In Canada Essay

Many of you have probably heard on the news about of all the police brutality happening all around the world. It happens mostly in the United States, but also in other places including Canada. Police brutality has brought up many disputes between ordinary citizens and the law enforcement; it has also brought to the eyes of many of some of the corruption in some of the law enforcement. Racism is a major topic related to police brutality, since many of those assaulted, unlawfully arrested, or killed have been people of color. That doesn’t just mean people of color are the only ones treated unjustly. The media has played a role in the publicizing of police brutality, but has also been scrutinized by some for censoring or not talking about some …show more content…
Throughout the past couple of years police brutality has become more and more prominent. With recent cases coming every few weeks in the United States, but also some cases happening in Canada, one that happened this past year here in Metro Vancouver at East 41st avenue and Knight Street; a man named Tony Du caused members of the public to call the police, about a distraught man standing in an intersection of a road waving a piece of wood around in the air and shouting, when police arrived to the scene and asked him (Tony) to placed the piece of wood down and approach them slowly, without giving him (Tony) a chance to respond the police opened fire and shot a few live rounds with one round hitting him, and he later died in the hospital. Many witnesses witnessed the entire event before and after the police arrived on scene. Many said that the report of the police department using plastic rounds in the beginning was not true, therefore after that an independent investigation was called. This shows part of the corruption in the law enforcement department causing a stigma between the police department and ordinary