Why Do People Kill African Americans?

• When you hear the word African American, a lot of people will tell you they are mostly in gangs and that they started a civil rights movements, where hunted by whites and killed by whites. The word police officer you think of white males who attack African Americans but if I tell you that a cop died in September 1, 1944 from letting a bunch of kids into sneaking into the game. They came back with a rifle and shot him with a .22 caliber rifle in the throat, you might laugh and say “Why didn’t he shoot them? Didn’t he have a gun to shoot them with?”
A black police officer showing and proving that anyone can be what they want to be as long as you try and succeed. He showed every black person that becoming a police doesn’t change who you …show more content…
As Bethel McKenzie wrote “the battle for black officers is
• not over, and our resolves should be stronger than ever to make sure we are represented- at all levels- in law enforcement, not just during Black History Month, but every day of the years.
As officers, have been killed in the line of duty, John Milledge was killed and the killer was prosecuted until a few days ago, Miami police department has a special webpage dedicated to those who have been killed in the line of duty. An anonymous writer wrote “You are a true hero, not only to Miami, but to the rest of the world.” Showing that John Milledge may have not done much as a civil rights leader but accepted the fact that things where not going to change since they had they’re precinct on an apartment and the court would not allow them to arm themselves nor have a police car. He and the other black officers would arrest people and walk them from Overtown to the Police department. If Martin Luther King Jr. envisioned a better place where blacks and white were not segregated and work together, John Milledge put those words and put them into action as later on white police officers accepted and befriended black
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