Police Brutality In Native Son

Police use their rights as a police officer as a way to overpower people. Police use their rights as a police officer to overpower people, to be specific African Americans, and treat them any way they are pleased. For example, an African American might be driving in a very nice, brand new, expensive car with the windows tented. A police officer pulls them over and asks them to see their license and registration. He also asks if they will step out of the car so he can search the car. The African American says no and the police officer gets violent, slamming the African American against the car and putting his hands behind his back. The police officer might have had the thought that the African American was selling drugs or doing something illegal because the windows were tented and most African Americans are stereotyped as drug dealers if they have a nice amount of money and nice things. The rights of some African Americans are being violated because of the stereotypes that have been made and their innocence is not being justified. Police brutality has become more popular to society in the past 4 years because police have a different definition of protection and they feel that they have to protect themselves and the community more so from African Americans because of the way African …show more content…
In this case it is not physical abuse from an officer but it is verbal abuse which is just as wrong. In the novel there is an investigation about who killed a rich, white woman and even though the readers know that it was Bigger, a young, poor African American male, the characters do not know that. The parents of the woman who was murdered hired an investigator to figure out what happened to their daughter and who murdered their daughter. The investigator begins with investigating Bigger. He is mean and rude to Bigger just because Bigger is acting very