Chokehold

Each day there is a new headline in the news highlighting another unjust death in conjunction with police officers in America. We observe it, we hear it, and even after much debate, it doesn’t change. Many in America continue to die and or are subjected to brutality at the hands of police for minimal reasons. Whether the reasoning is racism, sexism, classism or gaps in our own justice system that allows this to be acceptable our rights continue to be diminished and police officers continue to…

Has Police Use of Force Become too Excessive According to the National Institute of Justice, police enforce social order through the legitimized use of force. Use of force describes the “amount of effort required by police to compel compliance by an unwilling subject (http://www.theiacp.org)”. The levels, or continuum, of force police use include basic verbal and physical restraint, less-lethal force and lethal force (http://www.nij.gov). With that being said, an officer’s goal in apprehending a…

While taking a deeper look into the Black Lives Matter Movement (BLM) and what led up to it, it became apparent that the United States social justice system is built to humiliate and oppress African Americans. The conflict theory suggests that “tensions and conflicts arise when resources, status, and power are unevenly distributed between groups in society and that these conflicts become the engine for social change.” In America, power is often used as a way to maintain social, political, and…

Racism in police treatment of minorities has caused many disparities within our criminal justice system. Racism and excessive force seem be what the media is covering now. There are many cases that we find out from the media, but many more that police racism and brutality go unreported. Series of reports have been published, says that young black men are more likely to be incarcerated at a rate far greater than their number in the overall population. Does the media play a role in how police…

Today, every time you turn on your TVs or your social media, it never fails that you will see some kind of video of a police officer brutally beating or roughly handling someone, and most of the time the people are in handcuffs unable to defend themselves against the vial attack that is being bestowed upon them. When you watch these videos ask yourself; “ How are these the people that are supposed to be protecting us”. According to NewsOne.com, since January 1, 2012 , there have been over 30…

been a number of issues regarding police using excessive force that have captured the media’s attention. For example, two years ago, a suspect, who police claim was resisting arrest, was beaten by six NYPD officers. Eric Garner was even placed in a chokehold, leading to his death. Police use force to subdue suspects everyday, yet there are moments where the police excessively use unnecessary force. Most law enforcement officials should be retrained in the usage of force because it would allow…

The disputed circumstances of the shooting of the unarmed man sparked existing tensions in the predominantly black city. On July 17, 2014, Eric Garner died in Staten Island, New York City, after a New York Police officer put him in a so called, chokehold, for about 15 to 19 seconds while arresting…

The Black Lives Matter movement was created as a response to the unjust killings of unarmed black men and women in the United States. The purpose of black lives matter is create awareness to killings that are happening and that have been happening in the country. They would also like to bring about change in the way the cases are handled, due to the fact that many of the police officers who shoot and kill unarmed black men do not get indicted. This creates an impression that black lives do not…

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Issues with gender equality were prevalent during the 19th century in Canada, which eventually led to women’s movements towards suffrage and equality. The expectations for women were not very high. They were mostly left to deal with the housework, the children, and were responsible for tending to their husbands if married. Ever since they were young, girls were programmed to believe that women “struggled to make ends meet if they failed to marry or if their husbands deserted them” (I Do: Love…