Chokehold

Police brutality is defined as the use of excessive or unnecessary force by police when dealing with civilians (Daninila). Recently, there has been a surplus of incidents involving police brutality. However, police brutality is not a new concept. It has been going on since the civil rights era and long before then. Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, commonly known as H. Rap Brown, once said, “Violence is as American as cherry pie.” (Black Radical Congress). His statement, which was said in the sixties,…

Police and public relations Police and public relations are at the top of the list in today’s going concern and is quite often developed by these hardships, maintaining a positive image is hard for police officer 's to do. The influence that the commentary have about Michael Brown 's case was a negative impact. Furthermore, policies can improve their public relations with citizens by increasing their informal contact with citizens. The media influence the public to have a negative impression…

Police are the beginning to be the most dangerous people on the streets because of all the shooting they do to young and old innocent people, false arrests, and beatings they do to young and old innocent. There are good people out there trying to stop this but it’s hard because you don’t know what cop is good out there and which one is bad. Police brutality is affecting how people think, like when people say they serve and protecting, who are they really protecting? Cops are supposed to protect…

Authority as a Conundrum Authority is one of the things that parents ingrained in their children since birth. Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary defines authority as “the power to give orders or make decisions: the power or right to direct or control someone or something.” It is a responsibility of someone in authority to influence people on how to act or conduct themselves in an orderly manner. Authority is also defined as “the confident quality of someone who knows a lot about something or who is…

Lately, there have been many cases of police brutality occurring. It would seem that the police brutality rate was going through the roof in the past year or two, but is it really? Are there increasingly outbreaking coverages on police brutality, which there wasn’t before because we didn’t simply have the same amount of technology or is the rate going up by itself? It’s very hard to say it is, but why don’t we find out if police brutality is common or not. Many reasons state that it’s casual…

The Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson is a document written in 1776 that aimed to create equality among all persons on earth and grant everybody certain unalienable rights. Nearly 187 years after this document was written, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a letter from inside the Birmingham jail addressing the inequality that African American people were facing in the South. Nearly all white people in the South during this time were interpreting the Declaration in different ways that…

crime. Trayvon Martin wasn’t the only African American who was murdered and had his death erupt with riot and protest. Eric Garner, Michael Brown, and Sandra Bland are others whose deaths were commemorated with protests. Eric Garner was put in a chokehold by a police officer and witnesses claim he said “I can’t breathe” eleven times. Garner was declared dead at the police station. Michael (Mike) Brown was shot while raising his hands…

Music has been used as a form of protest for centuries. Protest music is a media made to bring attention to social and political issues and call for changes to fix them. This is a phenomenon seen throughout American history and is still seen in today’s day and age. The diversity within the category of protest music is mind blowing, with many of the pieces under its classification coming from a plethora of different genres. Many of the pieces included in the category are also from multiple eras…

According to Washington Post journalist Ilya Somin, “When police officers harm innocent civilians or otherwise abuse the public they are supposed to serve, that too is even worse than an otherwise comparable crime committed by an ordinary citizen.”12 When a new police officer is sworn in he is to live by the motto outlined by the police department, to protect and serve. Police officers are meant to help the public, and keep citizens safe. The public trusts officers to arrest criminals, find…

Police Murders – The Dangerous Influence of Hate by the Media “The media 's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that 's power. Because they control the minds of the masses”(Malcolm X). In today’s society with advanced technology, many may believe that the media are still needed in order to help police officers deter one from a life of crime. With television news shows and paper media, one may also believe…