Wee-Bey Case Study

The police institution has impacted Wee-Bey negatively because the police targeted him. One person does not have to work in the police force in order to be in the police institution. The police target some people, and by targeting them, they are considered to be under the police institute. Wee-Bey was targeted because of where he was placed in society. To start with, Wee-Bey grew up in a public squalor, (a place where poor people lives). The public squalor system made so poor individuals will not be connected to the other rich people. These poor people rely on the government and do anything they can to live. Wee-Bey was one of those individuals; he had to sell drugs in order to survive. That is how he became a target of the police. Plus when he joined the …show more content…
They targeted people that do drugs and look suspicious of any kind, then put them in jail. Furthermore, the police institution messed up Wee-Bey’s life. If they were not looking for him, he would have gone on with his life and become who he wanted to be. This is all tied to the “Black Lives Matter” campaigned because the police just brutalize Black young man, because they look suspicious of doing drugs. Even if the person is doing drugs, they should not be brutalized, they are not the animal. Even for animals it is called Animal cruelty; therefore, it should not be allowed on humans. Black people are looked down upon, not only by the authorities, most of all by the police that is supposed to be helping them. In the article “A FREDDIE GRAY MISTRIAL”, Wallace-Wells wrote, “Gray said he couldn't breathe and ask for an inhaler, but he was not giving one. Instead, Miller and Nero searched him, arrested him for possession of a switchblade knife and held him down as he began to flail and scream; they then put him in a paddy wagon, handcuffed but without a seat belt” (2). Gray was targeted by this police; they punished him for have a little knife on