Without the First Amendment unjustified police actions and minority cruelty will happen undetected. Having no freedom of speech will effect the right for people to ask question and protest on unjustified events that occur with police officers. Hence, even with the First Amendment intact police officers are still being let off easy on the crimes they have committed. For example, Sarah Bland case who changed lanes without signaling and ended up dead two hours later in her cell, or like Eric Garner who was chocked to death by a police officer in New York City; as a result, the grand jury decided not to indict a police officer in the death of Garner. The First Amendment allows us to question how and why things happened without having to be afraid
