Case Study: Black Lives Matter

A necessary and common fight for equality has been one that has survived throughout all of man’s existence. Due to recent racial divide and the product of racial profiling, a movement has risen up to combat these common issues. The most recent and most well-covered is the Black Lives Matter Movement. Even though it has been lauded by some media sources and individuals as the next great movement to champion for civil rights, the Black Lives Matter movement is not the same as the African-American Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s nor is it likely to be as successful. If the Black Lives Matter Movement continues with discrepancies in ideology, lack of clear leadership, and trends of hate, the movement is doomed to fail.

In the United States, there has been many cases of Racial injustice. From the beginning of the start of the United States of America it was the injustice to the Native Americans being captured and used for slave labor while their bison be slaughtered for sportsmanship. But this paper is on the specific race of the African Americans. There are many races that have been racially profiled and ostracized by the English people. But the treatment that African Americans have endured even till this day is disheartening. African Americans have gone through enslavement during the early 1600’s to the mid 1800’s. Then the African Americans were obstructed by the Jim Crow laws creating the ‘Separate but Equal” propaganda during the late 1800’s into the 1960’s. After the abolishment of the Jim Crow Laws, people were considered equal until the recent actions of many police officers using deadly force on African American youths in the early 2000’s.

Community relation issues across the nation have been increasing and causing many conflicts between law enforcement and communities. There has been so much disorder between communities and law enforcements not agreeing on how situation have been handled. Both the community and law enforcements having different perspectives on making decisions without ever looking at the others side and acknowledging each other’s reasoning behind their actions. Racism, responsibility and morals are some of many terms that are yet to be sorted out within all these communities that have on going conflicts. The relationships between a community and its law enforcement is important, although it is the police job to enforce, it is also the communities job to enforce all day and everyday (Russell).

The Community Orientented Policing Services wrote about how the events after Ferguson affected the Community Policing aspect for officers on the job. Community Policing is a topic of discussion because people do not like the rules that officers have to follow in their jobs. The services believe that everyone is a leader not just police officers, but they have noticed that the Community thinks they are just followers who give information to the police. From the Wisconsin’s chiefs point of view he states “fully 80 percent of African-American respondents said “yes,” in contrast to 37 percent of White respondents. Three-quarters of African-American respondents said that they had “little or no confidence in the investigations” into the shooting;

The misconception that BLM doesn’t care about black-on-black crime is false. Those who insist on talking about black-on-black crime frequently fail to acknowledge that most crime in interracial. Ninety-three percent of black murders victims are killed by other black people. And is it also the same for whites, eighty-four percent of white murder victims are killed by other white people. Those who focus on black-on-black crime use it as a diversionary tactic to take down the BLM movement by suggesting that black people do not have the right to be outraged about police violence in vulnerable black communities. The BLM movement acknowledges the crime problem, but refuses to locate that crime problem as a problem of black pathology. Black people

Today in the United States of America, there are many different people from many different ethnic backgrounds. The Black Lives Matters movement is stirring up racial separation, rather than promoting reasonable solutions. Their dishonest anti-police views are causing police everywhere to second guess themselves.

These three things all contribute to the change we want to see in society. Currently, The Black Lives Matter movement is at the point of causing civil disobedience, which is used to gain the attention of the media, politicians and the nation as a whole. The movement works at different levels with the hopes of making changes in society which in turn would promote equality within the criminal justice system. Leaders of Black Lives Matter understand how the general population’s beliefs about crime and racism acts as an antagonist to any sort of reform to lower racial discrepancies, due to this they are trying to emphasize how race does matter in both the criminal justice system and society through the means of protests. The 23 active Black Lives Matter chapters across the United States are staging demonstrations in order to get society to acknowledge that there is a problem, and once people begin to listen, there can be legal challenges and new laws that work to influence a societal change. On August 28th, 2014 during Labor Day weekend supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement from around the nation set out to participate in a Black Lives Matter Freedom Ride. This protest, based off of the 1960s Freedom Riders, brought people to Ferguson, MO, the city where Michael Brown was shot and killed by police officer Darren Wilson. Naturally this

Everyone hears about the controversial events that happen between the NYPD targeting African Americans. Every few months there seems to be another shooting, another protest. Your men are here to protect and serve New York City but now the NYPD is looking like the bad guys. In order to have peace in the city, the racial profiling needs to stop. This memo is to inform you on the discrimination happenings that occur against African Americans, which take place right the New York City’s streets. This letter also contains evidence and ways to stop the racial profiling among the NYPD and African Americans.

In 2014, civil rights groups began to collaborate with government agencies to contribute efforts by representing the people’s individual rights. For example, the ACLU commended President Obama’s Task Force, Building Trust and Legitimacy, but ACLU have also recommended additional efforts (Murphy 2015). ACLU’s director, Laura Murphy participated in this collaboration by writing a lengthy testimony on the behalf of the Union. In this testimony, Murphy introduces with this statement about what she refers to as “police

It shouldn't be a race thing black, white, Hispanic, whoever; no matter what race or color cops is, they will always be the bad guys in the black's lives matter's eyes.”. As a result Black Lives Matter has promoted the generalization and hatred of a group of people; similar to what the Ku Klux Klan had done to minorities' in the past. Stereotyping and grouping people to characterized all as one, racism in itself. The same issues BLM fighting against, however they are doing on-to others. Police agencies have statistical data that show, "Despite making up just 13% of the population, African Americans committed half of the homicides in the United States for nearly 30 years." DOJ (department of justice) statistics show that between 1980 and 2008, African-Americans committed 52% of homicides. In 2013 alone, African-American criminals committed #8% of the murders in this country. By the way, Black Lives Matter may influence other racial groups to form and organize their beliefs in violent and similar ways that they have recently paved the way for. The fear already installed in every one of everybody, leads to your "Fight-or-Flight" response to eventually activate and cause complete chaos among people of all different racial, political, ethical and religious

She feels as if the organization original agenda should be changed to lowering the number of “Black on Black Crime” (Donald par 6). Her argument also includes that more violent crimes happen with blacks by blacks, and police brutality only happens when a person disobeys authority. On the other hand, we have the founders of the BLM movement, Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza, and Tometi Opal, arguing that African Americans typically have no power in either situation whether they are obeying authority or disobeying authority, which in most recent police brutality cases has not been the reason to why the police brutality occurred (par. 4).

BLM is a movement created in 2012 by Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi. They created this movement to campaign racial profiling, police brutality against innocent blacks, and racial inequalities in the criminal justice system. The BLM movement used social media and hold protests to spread awareness of innocent black deaths.

The Black Lives Matter Movement created a police reform on the policy agenda and has

The Black Lives Matter movement has swept across America. It 's branched out with chapters in over 31 cities and held rallies and boycotts across the United States(Sidner). The Black Lives Matter movement started with the outrage of the death of a young man. It continues to take over headlines and raise awareness on police brutality and inequality. However, the movement has met resistance from the All Lives Matter group. This group thinks that Black Lives Matter is a movement to express hatred towards other races. However, statistics, the views of fellow citizens, and the overall purpose of the Black Lives Matter movement, can prove that the movement wasn 't meant to express hate on other races and that we need to support the movement instead of going against it.

The group, which had seen a lot of following in the past three years, has been known for protesting against police and law enforcement officers, especially after altercations with black people. Many protests in several parts of the country have been organized by BLM activists, many of which follow the death of a certain black American. Aside from protest, BLM also organizes public events to further enlarge their popularity. They also have a very large social media presence, as