Chokehold

From Beatings to Beats Introduction “To serve and protect.” or to beat, kill and conceal? Police brutality has remained a worldwide issue through the years. It is recently a major problem in the United States, with technology and social media being more active than ever, video recordings of beatings and deaths caused by police officers are being broadcasted and viewed worldwide on popular websites and news channels. Other video recording tools such as dashboard police cameras and…

Erick Garner, mush like Jyoti Singh, represented a symbol of injustice and hope for the society in which he was recognized because he too was assaulted by people of higher power. He too faced discrimination by his justice system through the act of victim blaming. However, his incident took place in America, a first world country that was very open about its racial acceptance and its strong justice system. Also unlike Jyoti Singh, Garners injustice was a result of a product of events leading up…

The film Matilda is about a bright little girl who is born into a nuclear family who always mistreats her. Matilda had never received a proper care from her parents, but at the age of four she learned how to take care of herself. She was always left home alone while her parents would go to work, play bingo, and her older brother would go to school. While everyone was gone, Matilda would go to the library to read and rent books. The father didn’t really acknowledged Matilda except when asking for…

Have you ever seen people hurt for no good reason? Well Redditt Hudson did, he saw his family and friends roughed up all the time. He was eventually used ot being stopped by the police, but he knew not all cops were bad. His father’s best friend was a police officer. This police officer soon became a mentor for young Redditt, and encouraged him joining the force. He told Redditt “You could use the police’s power and resources to help your community.” In 1994 He did join the St. Louis Police…

seem to be stuck in a continuous cycle of never-ending unjustified killings of African-Americans. It would seem like it was only yesterday that Michael Brown was unjustifiably killed as well as Eric Garner, another African American who put into a chokehold position and was suffocated to death last year by the police. The fact that neither of theses cops who in my opinion, unjustifiably killed two civilians, did not get indicted, shows us that the U.S ' criminal justice is broken and needs to be…

The object of my term paper is to state facts about police brutality and to talk about its ongoing history in United States. I will provide examples of different incidents that I believe is police brutality. I will also point out my opinion on police brutality, how it affects us people, and how we can change it In the future. Officers are abusing their power and nothing is being done about it. There are many ways we can prevent police brutality. The ways we can do it is by punishing officers,…

In the last few years one of the most prominent topics in the news has been police brutality. Unfortunately, a direct result of this brutality is the killings of many innocent black people. Through this, organizations like Black Lives Matter have been created to help bring attention to this topic. Black Lives Matter is an important movement for the black community because it forces us to examine institutional racism, police brutality, the deaths of innocent black people, and general racism more…

streets. “Don’t punish me with brutality.” How prevalent is this brutality? The city medical examiner has ruled the death of Eric Garner, the forty-three-year-old father, whose death in police custody sparked national outrage, a homicide, saying a chokehold killed him in New York City. Looking at the southland eighteen-year-old Michael Brown an unarmed black who was shot, critically wounded, and killed by police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson. St. Louis prosecutor announced that a…

equal. The idea that their personal beliefs and opinions should be tolerated and they should not be persecuted for being of different religions. This ideology paved the way for more diverse communities, increased tolerance, and lessened religions chokehold on political involvement in colonies. In John Lockes “The Reasonableness of Christianity” he mentions that religion is trying to pave a way to which people are equals. John Locke states “This makes it more than a name; a substantial good,…

Throughout American history, equality has always been held in focus. The American people strive for equality rights, and work towards an even and balanced life for all. Many people envisioned today’s America long before it was achieved. One of the visionaries was James Madison. Madison was a federalist that helped write the Federalist Articles. Within Federalist No. 10, Madison addresses the dangers of factions, and how we should limit the power of factions. His main goal was to protect the…