(King) There have been many cases of police officers who have faced court trials on using excessive force towards the victim of the case. As a result of these case, they end up getting dropped allowing the officer to face no punishment. (King) The ratio of officers who do get sentenced to jail if they kill a victim is very low compared to the actual number of people who have been killed by police. There is a study that was measured just last year that for every 12 people who were killed by police, only one officer has been tried for using unnecessary force and faced light …show more content…
Black Lives Matter protested that there needed to be change in the way the African American community be treated by police since there was so much racial profiling involved. (Goldman) These protests served a purpose for people to be reminded that the lives of colored people matter and that they need to not face discrimination as they have been facing for years. Protesting has also evolved behaviors in some people fighting that what the police officers did in these cases has been justified. After many other sequence of events that caused police officers to lose their lives because of a reaction to someone feeling like they have been discriminated against, a new movement swept the internet for support of police. Boys in Blue was a term people used that would show police officers are just doing their job in trying to protect and serve the community and to remember that not all police officers are