Protests re surfaced after 40-year-old African American, Terrance Crutcher was shot and killed in Tulsa, Oklahoma by a white female police officer on Friday September 16, 2016. Exactly one week later on September 23, 2016 43-year-old African American male Keith Scott was fatally shot by a white police officer in Charlotte, North Carolina. Both men were said to be unarmed by bystanders. Protests erupt in cities causing mayhem, even causing Governor Pat McCrocry to call for a state of emergency in Charlotte North Carolina due to the violence coming from the protests. In various videos that have surfaced in the media protestors are seen bashing windows, knocking down reporters and fires burned in several city streets. In these same videos there are two sides, the protestors and the
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According to The Guardian, 196 African Americans were killed by United States Police Officers this year. This year’s list includes Alton Sterling, an African American male age 37 who was fatally shot on July 5, 2016 by police outside of a convenience store. According to police reports Alton Sterling was shot because he was said to be selling CD’s and armed.
“I feel as if we are moving backwards with the civil rights of individuals in America,” said CCNY Graduate student Kai Simmonds.
The protest against police brutality is an epidemic that still affects us today. There is clearly a divide between the African American community and the police for decades. How evolved as a country are we really in regards to racial unity? If protests from today like the Black Lives Matter movement which stemmed from the police shootings from Ferguson and Baltimore, seems just as similar as it 1992 Riots also known as the Rodney King Riots coming from LA after police used excessive force on an African American male.
So, how can we break the cycle, how can we create
According to The Guardian, 196 African Americans were killed by United States Police Officers this year. This year’s list includes Alton Sterling, an African American male age 37 who was fatally shot on July 5, 2016 by police outside of a convenience store. According to police reports Alton Sterling was shot because he was said to be selling CD’s and armed.
“I feel as if we are moving backwards with the civil rights of individuals in America,” said CCNY Graduate student Kai Simmonds.
The protest against police brutality is an epidemic that still affects us today. There is clearly a divide between the African American community and the police for decades. How evolved as a country are we really in regards to racial unity? If protests from today like the Black Lives Matter movement which stemmed from the police shootings from Ferguson and Baltimore, seems just as similar as it 1992 Riots also known as the Rodney King Riots coming from LA after police used excessive force on an African American male.
So, how can we break the cycle, how can we create