Chokehold

Police Should Wear Body Cameras Being in law enforcement isn 't a easy job. The goal of a police officer is to protect and serve the civilians. Lately, police brutality has been a hot topic of discussion due to some police officers taking their power to extreme measures when dealing with the public. Many unarmed minorities were being killed at the hands of officers all over the United States. According to the website www.mappingpoliceviolence.org, "37% of unarmed minorities were killed by…

heard a call about an emergency situation they took the call drove within a few feet of Tamir and shot him at point blank range, before giving him any warnings. (Dewan and Oppel 2015) The movement continued to grow as the officer who had Garner in a chokehold wasn’t indicted, as other unarmed African American men and women were killed by police officers, such as Alton B. Sterling and Philando Castile, and when politicians, such as Bernie Sanders, supported the movement 's goals. (Chokshi 2016)…

Police officers play a vast role in today’s society and law enforcement system, they have been granted an extreme amount of power to protect the nation and it’s people. However, recently they have given us the opportunity to question their integrity and the reasoning behind some of their actions. Their initial job was to help monitor criminal activity and bring justice to the world, but as of late they have been doing more damage than good. With all the police brutality and unjustifiable murders…

country and was used in many protests. Even though the story has been widely proven false, it is still a rally cry for the BLM movement. Another saying that is often heard at these protests are the words of Eric Garner. In 2014, Garner was held in a chokehold on Staten Island by the NYPD. Garner is said to have yelled 11 times that he couldn’t breathe. “I can’t Breathe” was the other rally cry the crowds of black supports exclaimed all across the country. Other uses of art were that of the signs…

of paying taxes lead by the catchcry “No taxation without representation.” However, the British continually ignored any petitions from the colonial assembly and instead increased taxes of the Stamp Act 1765 and Quartering Act 1774 ever tightening chokehold on the colonies. The Sons of liberty rallied the colonists to act leading to the ultimatum of the Declaration of Independence July 4th 1776 and the…

Many historians argue that race has played a central role in the history of the United States and I have to say that I completely agree with that statement. Everything that has occurred from the time slavery started to this present day has somehow affected race-to-race relations or was affected by the race-to-race relations. To this day people still fight for the equality of the races but that still hasn’t been able to completely happen just yet. For example the American to African American…

its street protests in Ferguson and New York, following the deaths of two more African Americans, Michael Brown an 18 year old young man, and Eric Garner a 43 year old father of six who was killed by a New York City policeman that put him in the chokehold for 15 to 20 seconds, according to eyewitnesses. After the Ferguson and New York protests activists in the movement protested the deaths of several more African Americans that died at the hands of the authorities during this time, including the…

black and Hispanic according to a New York Civil Liberties Union calculation. It has become obvious that this form of policing is racially biased. In 2014 a black father of six, Eric Garner, was killed when a white police officer put him in a chokehold when he fought against being arrested for selling loose cigarettes. The death of Mr. Garner raised a huge debate over the Broken Windows policing theory. With all the arrests for petty offenses it has made it difficult for young people of…

The idea of requirement of body cameras in the police force has exploded a controversy. Many people believe that police officers should be required to wear body cameras, while others do not. People are requiring police officers to wear body cameras because there has been cases in which people doubt justice was made. Cases like the death of Eric Garner, the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, the death of Sandra Bland, and others. In these cases the families of the victims were unsatisfied…

The recent events below have led to a series of protests over the past year but recently in the media the public has been advocating for the rights of African Americans in America based off of the neglect of the justice system for these young black men. These situations were all against young black males that had absolutely no reason to be murdered as a means to a solution. As these three situations only stand as representations of the many black male to be victimized by the police system in…