Police Brutality Against Minorities Essay

Police brutality against minorities is a big issue in the United States, and there is almost an incident a day in America. Police have an immense amount of power that they can tap into, but some offices do abuse that power. By doing this, there are often incidences almost weekly where police use excessive and sometimes deadly. The one big detail that everyone has missed is that most of the victims of police brutality are minorities. These occurrences have gotten so bad that there have been riots in cities such as Los Angeles, Detroit, Baltimore and Ferguson. “But first we have to end this bloody ritual. We have to want to end police brutality as much as we want to end pedophilia” (Troutt 19). People are outraged and demanding that the senseless …show more content…
Officers lie for one another, the department will give false statements and testimonies when questioned. “Normally, a trial decides the truth. But a compelling story rooted in stereotypes may circumvent that” (Troutt 17). The jury and judges fall for the officer’s stories which always include a twisted story and false statements by other officers. Most of all, officers will never give a clear image of what happened unless there is visual evidence such as a video taken by a bystander. In the Michael Brown killing, police couldn’t stick to one story about what provoked the office into shooting Michael Brown. “The story changed: that Brown was portrayed as a bad kid who may have stolen cigars from a shop. Then footage emerged apparently showing him paying for the cigars” (Penny 24). After the shooting of Michael Brown occurred police protected Officer Darren Wilson was told by police to not talk to any media, and they justified his actions. “First, they (police) claimed that Brown had attacked the office who shot him” (Penny 24). In this statement is tries to justify officer Wilsons actions, and the public later finds out that Michael Brown was shot while he had his hands up, and corporates with the