How Does Media Influence Racial Profiling?

In the fight against racial policing, young activists have created campaigns titled #SayTheirName and #SayHerName. Under In the #SayHerName campaign, the activists have tried to spread awareness about the black victims who don’t have a voice to speak for themselves because they’re no longer here. The #SayHerName movement, another movement in connection to the #saytheirname campaign, focuses on police brutality against black women. Sandra Bland, an innocent black woman, was found dead in her jail cell after an unreasonable traffic stop. The officer who made the stop said that he removed her from her car because she was combative but video footage shows that she was not combative and that she exercised her rights (NY Daily News,2014). Elsie Scott, founding director of Public Policy Center at Howard University, said “We are seeing increasingly more cases where …show more content…
In retaliation towards the Black Lives Matter Movement, All Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter was created to silence people about the existence of how racial discrimination influences racial policing. To aid in the argument that the Black Lives Matter is not a great movement, the media has also influenced what people think about it. Bill O 'Reilly, controversial television host, really weighed in on the debate in which he defines the Black Lives Matter Movement as something that is killing the American people. He said “The media will not spotlight that much of the violent crime in America is being committed right now by young black men”. He accused the Black Lives Matter Movement of promoting violence and perpetuating a "false narrative" around police shootings. A numerous amount of conservatives believe this to be true, but what they fail to realize is that they are aiding in the ignoring of how racial discrimination influences racial