Police Brutality Report

Police Brutality is Sugarcoated Twelve-year-old Tamir Rice, born June 25, 2002, shot and killed on November 27, 2014, in Cleveland, Ohio, by Police Officer Timothy Loehmann. Officer Loehmann has dispatched a call of a black male who was waving a gun at residents as they were walking by the Cudell Recreation Center. A two-minute phone call by a pedestrian to 991 dispatches of the incident in progress. In the beginning and the middle of the call the pedestrian mentioned to the dispatch "It's probably a fake…[also] that he is probably a juvenile" (Fortin, Jacey, and Jonah Engel Bromwich). However, dispatch never relayed the information to officers Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback. You would think a description of the suspect is sufficient enough information that the dispatchers would share with the offers responding. The officers reported that upon their arrival, they both continuously yelled: "show me your hands" (Fortin, Jacey, and Jonah Engel Bromwich) through the open patrol car window. Loehmann further claimed that instead …show more content…
Excessive force has been a conflict in America for centuries now, from the most controversial and worldwide pain, the beating of Rodney King in 1961. Now even in this present day the killing of 17-year-old Michael Brown. Yes, humans make mistake, yes everyone makes a bad judgment especially in a moment of fear, however, some people take advantage of a certain situation when allowed to. Should the public continue to give the officers who are supposed to be "serving and protecting" the communities to continue to bring even more fear and harm to these neighborhoods? The police are granted so much power and the citizens who are not affected by excessive force see no problem, there is an issue and there needs to be some acknowledgment of all of the lives that have been and will be taken by officers, and perhaps a solution. No more unlawful killing protected by the