Why Are We Still Killing Black People

Black Lives Matter Movement established because of police brutality performed on black people. In one incident, a 32- year- old black man by the name of Philando Castille , got shot because he reached into his dashboard to get his license after getting pulled over. He told the police officer that he had a registered gun in his car and asked the police officer to not shoot but he did resulting for him to die. After getting interviewed about how she had been feeling Philando Castilles mother Valerie, angrily pointed out that, “The system continues to fail black people,” she said Friday after the verdict. “My son loved this city, and this city killed my son. And the murderer gets away! Are you kidding me right now?” (Craven). The fact that the authorities that she thought could be …show more content…
population” (Lowery). Technically, white people get killed by the police more than black people. The fact that white people’s population goes way deeper in the US than African Americans, it is taken the other way around. It still isn’t an okay thing for black people to get killed from left to right just because there is not much black people. In an article, In Case You Forgot, Cops Are Still Killing Black People by Michael Harriot, he points out seven people that have been killed in 2017 and everything is being ignored ( Harriot, In Case You Forgot). A lot of deaths upon black people by police officers are either not cared about or not important. Everyone is so distracted about the things in life that really do not matter instead of focusing on things that could improve. Situations like this could lead to people getting into it with the police as well. These killings from police officers to black people go a long way and the Black Lives Matter Movement hopes that no families would ever worry about someone close getting stopped and killed by the