In the Summer of 2013, the Black Lives Matter movement came to fruition in the wake of George Zimmerman’s acquittal in the shooting of Trayvon Martin, a young and unarmed black male. Since then, the movement has demonstrated against other deaths of many black men believed to have been victims of police brutality. Despite the scrutiny behind police practices such as the chokehold and racial profiling, which are both deemed illegal, the police have not changed these practices and instead made them legal under different names such as the “headlock” and the “drug courier profile”. In response to the Black Lives Matter movement and the 2014 killings of NYPD officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu, the Blue Lives Matter movement was created. Instead…
Reana May Alcantara Research Paper CRJS 222 Topic One: Police Brutality Blacks Being on the Front Page As a country of freedom, are we free? We know that whites and some minorities are, but what about the blacks? Why are they being posted up or being talked about every day? Why are blacks becoming victims of police brutality?…
The history of violence against African Americans in the South is long, tragic and varied. While this history is made up of many different forms of extra judiciary violence, I would argue that off these acts the lynchings carried out during Jim Crow were some of the most heinous and politically impactful. Seeing brutal images of a town gathered around a hung body provide those studying the political history of the American South with a vivid depiction of what systematic disenfranchisement really meant. These acts of group violence were carried out to maintain the political system of white supremacy. The two states with the highest rates of lynching per capita during the Jim Crow era are Mississippi and Arkansas.…
Steven Magee once said, “Corrupt and incompetent police officers have a long history of being protected by their colleagues, police internal affairs and the government”. (Magee) There are as much good police officers as there are corrupt ones. There are as many good people in society as there are bad. There is as much good in society as there is bad.…
Racism and Violence in the United States The United States has always been a country that is culturally diverse. Regardless of the diversity the U.S has discriminated groups of people that are not recognized as “White”. Since the establishment of the U.S. there has been discrimination of minorities.…
A survey was conducted within the article and it concluded that the majority of survey takers believed that as a nation, we were spending “too little” on trying to change conditions for Black Americans. The survey also concluded that our federal government’s attention towards the needs of minorities was not being met. Overwhelming, a general consensus deduced George H.W Bush, was not doing enough for racial relation regardless of what side. Fast forward to 20+ years from the riots, Los Angeles is still home to many Black Americans and others such as Hispanic Americans and Asian Americans. Blacks are still much more disadvantaged compared to their White and Asian counterparts when it comes to education, median income, and so forth, but even with all the inequalities, Blacks are still continuing to stay strong and…
Since the beginning and the ending of slavery, police brutality has been strongly incorporated in the African American communities. The beatings, shootings, and the result of rioting has been nothing new against African Americans. The term “police brutality” was first used in America as early as 1872 when the Chicago Tribune reported on the beating of a civilian under arrest at the Harrison Street Police Station. Police brutality can often be defined as the use of excessive and/or unnecessary force by police when dealing with civilians. If one thinks of the term “police brutality” in relating to African Americans, what may come to mind is names such as “Rodney King”, “Eric Garner”, “Sandra Bland”, “Freddie Gray”.…
Although there have been laws made, bringing about an impact, it still continues. We now have a black president which is a big step towards ending racism and shows that not the entire country is still racist. From (1800-1900’s) racism was at its worst. Blacks were made out to seem like they weren’t equal, and got treated very…
The definition of police brutality according to Wikipedia is, the deliberate use of excessive force, usually physical, carried out during law enforcement activities with the population. This type of behavior also includes verbal attacks and psychological intimidation by a police officer. Over the years, police brutality has increased a great deal in the African American community. According to usatoday.com, the Justice Department finds that cases in which police, prison guards and other law enforcement authorities have used excessive force or other tactics to violate victims ' civil rights have increased 25% (281 vs. 224) from fiscal years 2001 to 2007 over the previous seven years. I found this statistic in an article written seven years ago,…
Why is there so much violence in African American communities? Violence in African American communities can stem from a variety of things. Some children have been treated badly, while others have just been raised poorly. Also, role models and the people in the environment plays a huge part on the outcome of how violent the neighborhood is. Being in gangs and acting violent towards others in the neighborhood can be something that happens for attention or “stripes” in their neighborhood.…
Police Brutality and Racial Disparities Introduction Police brutality against African Americans is a widely discussed topic across the states. However, what cause the police to be so? Why do they use excessive and deadly force against them? And is it really only about African Americans or does the other ethnicities encounter the same problem?…
Throughout history, racial violence has been a vital instrument in upholding white supremacy. Oftentimes, torturers use brutal, humiliating tactics to instill a sense of fear and cowardice within the abused. After the civil war and the emancipation of the slaves, the Reconstruction period brought on intense periods of racial violence due to controversial ideas about the authentic meaning of freedom. Controlled by fear, white men utilized violence to maintain their supremacy above African American men in post-Reconstruction South.…
All American Boys is a young adult novel that focuses on police brutality from the viewpoints of two teenage boys: Rashad Butler, an African American male that has been beaten mercilessly by a policeman, Paul Galluzzo, and Quinn Collins, a witness to the beating. Although it is a fictitious scenario, it depicts real-life encounters between blacks and police, racial profiling, and the corrupt justice system of America. The book illustrates the impact of systematic racism and police brutality, which may affect the lives of all citizens of America. According to Kelly Welch of Villanova University, “In American society, a prevalent representation of crime is that it is overwhelmingly committed by young Black men.” (Welch, 2007)…
Many people will come out fighting and bruised because of the long batter against racism that people who are not White will face. In President Obama, “A More Perfect Union” he speaks about racism and equality very much. Understanding that racism is a big issue in today’s society. Obama addresses that “The fact is that the comments that have been made and the issues that have surfaces over the last few weeks reflects the complexities of race in this country that we’ve never worked through...” (Para 23).…
Racism is the strong belief that one 's race, skin color, or more by and large, one 's gathering, be it of religious, national personality, is better than others in humankind. It has been a piece of the American scene almost since the of North America starting in the seventeenth century. Different gatherings have carried the biggest part of it, showed in terrible laws, social practices, and criminal behavior coordinated toward an unemotional and factual gathering. No American should be racist.…