On August 9th, 2014, Michael Brown and his friend Dorian Johnson were walking in the middle of the street when they were approached by a police officer by the name of Darren Wilson. With there being altered stories explaining what happened next rather than choosing one side of the story we can agree that an altercation occurred and it led to the unfortunate death of eighteen year old Michael Brown. Because of the differing stories and videos online, I will not focus on whether I feel like the killing of Michael Brown was justified, but whether the process to indict/or not to indict Officer Darren Wilson was justified and not flawed. Beginning as soon as you read the table of contents of the DOJ report on the Ferguson Police Department
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The DOJ provides multiple occasions where the Ferguson police department violates the 4th amendment, but the one that caught my attention the most was the incident in July of 2013. The DOJ describes the incident as racial discrimination and unlawful detention (2014, p. 17). The report articulates that the Ferguson police officers ran into an African American man while they were in the process of coming to arrest another person. Instead, the police officers arrested the man they ran into in the parking lot and ran his record without any reasonable suspicion. The man turned out to be the original arrestee’s landlord and even after the cops arrested him, the landlord helped the cops find the person they came searching for from the beginning. The man later field a complaint stating that he was racially profiled, but the police department back their officers actions and argued that “the detention as “minimal” and pointing out that the car was air conditioned (2014, p. 17). According to the constitution, the police had no right to arrest the man because the 4th amendment protects all citizens from unreasonable search and seizures. The only logical explanation of this man’s arrest was that he was arrested because of the color of his
The DOJ provides multiple occasions where the Ferguson police department violates the 4th amendment, but the one that caught my attention the most was the incident in July of 2013. The DOJ describes the incident as racial discrimination and unlawful detention (2014, p. 17). The report articulates that the Ferguson police officers ran into an African American man while they were in the process of coming to arrest another person. Instead, the police officers arrested the man they ran into in the parking lot and ran his record without any reasonable suspicion. The man turned out to be the original arrestee’s landlord and even after the cops arrested him, the landlord helped the cops find the person they came searching for from the beginning. The man later field a complaint stating that he was racially profiled, but the police department back their officers actions and argued that “the detention as “minimal” and pointing out that the car was air conditioned (2014, p. 17). According to the constitution, the police had no right to arrest the man because the 4th amendment protects all citizens from unreasonable search and seizures. The only logical explanation of this man’s arrest was that he was arrested because of the color of his