Why are minorities, especially Blacks being treated so poorly by our police officers? No-one can truly answer this question without being the officer himself. Why did officer Yanez feel threatened so fiercely by Philando Castile? After all, Philando followed the officer’s command and did exactly as he was told, yet it didn’t protect or save him; he is dead and will no longer be there to watch his daughter grow into a woman and the stereotypes associated with it. Americans are fully aware that one cannot choose our skin color, just as we cannot choose our parents or the family we were born into. Despite this much known fact, there is still racial bias that overrides our common sense and logic. According to Kia Maksrechi in the article “What the data really says about police and racial Bias”, the only thing significant in predicting whether someone was shot and killed by police was unarmed was whether or not they were black. Crime variables did not matter in terms of predicting whether the person killed was
Why are minorities, especially Blacks being treated so poorly by our police officers? No-one can truly answer this question without being the officer himself. Why did officer Yanez feel threatened so fiercely by Philando Castile? After all, Philando followed the officer’s command and did exactly as he was told, yet it didn’t protect or save him; he is dead and will no longer be there to watch his daughter grow into a woman and the stereotypes associated with it. Americans are fully aware that one cannot choose our skin color, just as we cannot choose our parents or the family we were born into. Despite this much known fact, there is still racial bias that overrides our common sense and logic. According to Kia Maksrechi in the article “What the data really says about police and racial Bias”, the only thing significant in predicting whether someone was shot and killed by police was unarmed was whether or not they were black. Crime variables did not matter in terms of predicting whether the person killed was