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    history, which involves Rodney King where he is beaten by four white cops while other cops watch him practically get beaten to death. He survives but somebody happens to catch this brutal beating on video and the police officers are charged on March 9th 1991, then 2 of the officers are completely acquitted in 1992 which is massively accepted to have started the Los Angeles Riots. So now that being 24 years ago, it’s still a thing that parents are scared of happening to their son or daughter,…

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    On August 9, 2014 an unarmed man was shot and killed by a police officer in Ferguson, MO. There are many conflicting witness accounts as to what happened that night which could have answered if the officer involved in the shooting was wearing a body camera. This incident as well as many others has led to a push by citizens, civil rights groups, as well as President Obama for police officers all over the United States to begin wearing body cameras. Studies have shown that there are less…

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    just misuse of force. The purpose of my study is to determine if police are more likely to misuse force, when it comes to minorities. These studies all show in some way shape or form that minorities have already been abused. Whether it 's TH police officers getting less favorable shifts, and promotions when they are a minority, or the fear among the African American community of being on the receiving end of police violence. Therese people have already been abused, I 'm using this information to…

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    issues surrounding the Ferguson case was racially charged. The local issue that I identified in the Berkeley County case was police officer corruption and how secrecy and lack of consequences could negatively…

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    A police officer is given glorious force to protect and serve others behind the reinforcement of government laws to keep the equal powers and stone strong rights we have been given; among the aspects of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. Since the early eighteenth century they have been under the light as superhero figures, however in some cases this powerful position has been contradicted through the abuse of individual rights with victims of society. It not only corrupts their…

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    the Police and Prosecuting the Klan." “The beating of Rodney King by officers of the Los Angeles Police Department on March 3, 1991, captured on videotape and broadcasted around the world, shocked America. The tape all but confirmed the officers ' use of excessive force and exposed to the public longstanding racial tensions in Los Angeles, with which its residents were all too familiar. The state prosecution of the four officers involved resulted in a complete acquittal. Within hours, riots…

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    of the everyday police officers that are supposed to just be patrolling streets and catching criminals that do not need to be on the streets.The first question that they need to ask themselves asks if normal citizens that comment crimes big or little, are at risk of the horrible police mistreatment and misconduct like electrocution,mock executions,waterboarding, and some more brutal things like asphyxiating with plastic bags,beatings and even rapings by the police officers that are supposed to…

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    Police officer have been serving and protecting citizens for decades, to first understand what is about to be introduced in this paper we first must understand what police are, and who are the citizens that serve under the badge. The police were invented in England and in the United States roughly around 1825 to 1855, the police were not in a sense created to solve crime, crime was at a low and technically it did not matter because crime had more to do with the acts of an individual. The ruling…

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    and made him get in the front with him. The word intention means something intended: an aim or plan (dictionary. reference n.d.). I feel that the partner knew what his intentions were when he got in the back seat with the suspect. Although, the officer that was driving did not know what his intention were at first because he never told him. Once he saw that his intention was to beat the suspect and then falsify the report he should have let it be known that he would not be a part of it and make…

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    though they can do whatever they want, using their badge to justify the actions acted out by hate groups. This leads to the murder of hundreds of unarmed civilians, most of which are black individuals or other minorities. Although not all police officers are guilty, the issue is large enough to warrant nationwide protests, the birth of groups such as Black Lives Matter, and even make its way into the 2016 presidential elections. In Ferguson, Missouri, where unarmed teen, Michael Brown, was…

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