Fuck Tha Police Skit Analysis

In the year of 1988, a song called “Fuck Tha Police” was published and publicly released to the world by the famous rap group N.W.A. on August 9th. The song is an ultimate form of protest. Not only did it reveal racism and police brutality towards African Americans, but it was a real eye opener for the whole world to see how Caucasian people treated people of color back then. The song transcended into a slogan and is now a movement in pop culture all over the world today, you see it on posters, billboards, and even t-shirts. The song hits all three categories of ethos, logos, and pathos. It demonstrates credibility/trust, logic/reason/proof, and emotions/values.

In “Trapped” by Tupac he said ‘ If one more cop harasses me I just might go psycho, and when I gettem I’ll hittem with the bum rush.” Also in “I Fought the Law” by Green Day they said “ Robin’ people with my six gun, I fought the law and the law won.” The song “Gangsta Gangsta’ by N.W.A They said “ I’m the one that you’ll read about takin’ a life or two.” In these songs they admitted for doing a crime in the song they have done. All of these songs come together, because it is talking about how they hate the police or something about a crime. Also in these songs they get aways got away, except for one that tried to fight them. These rappers all mostly grew up in a tough part of their town and had something happened to them with the police. If they didn’t have something wrong with the police they wouldn’t be talking about them in a bad

While Kathryn Engel’s humiliation was only witnessed by her oppressors, another man was less fortunate. Michael Scipio, a mentally impaired african american man, was forced to sing and dance while videotaped by a local police officer, “A middle aged black man signs and makes strange noises, apparently at the direction of a police officer…. “Go ahead, do your song,” the person behind the camera says on video”(Murphy 3). Scipio reports that the officer took advantage of his mental illness by ordering him to sing and dance and “made him feel like a fool”( Murphy 1) before sending the video to several family members, friends and coworkers. The same police officer posted another photo, this one included a racist caption and featured a black man riding in the back of a truck. Thankfully, all officers involved in this awful event were fired and Michael Scipio was issued a formal apology. Police officers should not be allowed to humiliate and dehumanise others just because their victims are powerless.

When the judge, Bernard Kamins, who was Caucasian declared three of the four (also white) officers not guilty the public saw his decision very racist. The riots began in the evening after the judgment, and grew over the next two days, but they would continue for several days. Angry Los Angels residents went out to the streets to show their fury. “These people are angry and they have every right to be!” said a man to the news cameras during the destruction. Authorities failed miserably to control the people. As time went by the madness did not decrease but enlarged.

A case of police brutality in Charlotte, North Carolina is the 2013 case of Jonathan Ferrell. Ferrell had been in a car accident and ran to a woman’s home for aid. The woman assumed someone was breaking in her home and called the police. The police found Ferrell near the scene of the car accident and he attempted to make his way towards them asking for help, when the footage on the dash camera show that police officer Randall Kerrick began to open fire at Ferrell shooting him ten times. Kerrick was not indicted by the jury after the judge declared a mistrial. Two years later Ferrell’s family is still fighting for justice. General Roy Cooper told the press “Kerrick did not follow his training during his encounter with Ferrell. ”Most of them [police officers] ...understand that officers must be held accountable when they do not follow their training --

N.W.A (Niggaz Wit Attitudes) was a hip-hop group out of Compton known for its controversial yet influential rap lyrics. One of their most popular songs was “Fuck The Police.” This is song was an explicit expression of their feelings toward law enforcement during these unsettled times. Ice Cube rapped, “A young nigga got it bad ‘cause I’m brown.” This simply illustrated the rampant nature of profiling the African American male. Sadly, this hasn’t changed even to the present day. Just a few weeks ago, my twin brother, Malcolm Allen, experienced a racial profiling incident right here in Palo Alto. While waiting for our names to be called outside of a local restaurant, a police drove slowly in front of us. The officer summoned Malcolm and said, “You with the hoodie, come here. You fit the description of a suspect who was carrying a knife.” Numerous young black men from Trayvon Martin to Michael Brown have been brutally killed by law enforcement simply for being black. In other words, they were profiled as threats due to their skin color. This illustrates the idea of history loops itself. Though it has been constant, the intensity of the profiling and police brutality looped from the early 90’s to the present day. As a result, this song was a depiction of the times and a manifestation of what N.W.A wanted to do to the cops. Something this violent and blunt was especially unheard

One of the major and most well known cases of racial profiling is the case of Amadou Diallo. Four white officers members of the anti street crime unit fired 41 shots at Diallo hitting him 19 times. The officers contended that they fired in self defense. On Feb 4, 1999, after Diallo,22, reached for an object they thought was a gun while he was standing in the vestibule of his apartment. The object turned out to be his wallet. All four officers were charged with second-degree murder as suspended from there jobs. The officers said that Diallo darted into the entrance of his building and took a combat stance. He pulled out what they perceived as a weapon and opened fire on him. The officers contended that Diallo's death was a tragic case of self-defense. The officers were found not guilty on all charges. Diallo was just another black man that fit the profile of a drug dealer simply because he was black. In the case of Alton White, this similar situation occurred, fortunately for him he was not shot and was set free. He and three other black men were humiliated by being accused of being connected to a crime that they didn't even fit the description of the two Hispanic men. "Everything from being handcuffed strip-searched, taken in and out of questioning, to be told that they knew exactly who I was and my responsibility to the show and the in fact they knew

To compare to the Rodney King beating, a New York 22 year old resident born in West Africa, was shot at 42 times by four New York City uncover police officers. Unfortunately, 19 of those bullets hit Amadou Diallo killing him. Diallo was returning home in the Bronx, from his job in Manhattan. From his doorway the four police officers open fire when Diallo went to get his wallet out of his back pocket. The officers believed he was pulling out a gun. All four officers, who were in plainclothes, said they approached Mr. Diallo because they thought he fit the description of a man wanted in a rape case. The officers faced prosecution on second-degree murder and other charges but were acquitted by a jury in Albany. The trial had been moved because of concerns over pretrial publicity. (Buckley, 5)

In today’s society, some police are treating African American differently because the way they look and their color of their skin.In the Novel “All American Boys” Rashad’s Father told him what happens when he was at work.Rashad’s Father stated,”When he was a newer cop he pulled the trigger on a young black man thinking

With all this going on, a popular outlet for emotions regarding police brutality was music. A lot of hip hop artists wrote music to release their feelings on this subject. In the 1990s, one famous rap group, N.W.A, wrote a song that really expressed how a lot of African Americans felt at the time and may still feel now. (N.W.A) The song is called “F the Police.” The recent film Straight Out of Compton presents the story of NWA. One scene, in particular, shows how LA police

In many cases law enforcement likes to do justify many of their wrongdoings on the hunch that he was “just doing his job” in the instance of killing or brutality injuring an innocent man or child for being somewhere at the wrong place or time can be validated with a simple statement (Kiely 209). Similar to when Paul was once telling Quinn “It’s harder to be a cop here now than it used to be” (Kiely 167). Nostalgically thinking back on time when Whites made up majority of the town's population and minorities precisely made up a unreasonably small fraction less than half thus implying that because there are more minority races particularly African Americans taking occupancy, the town has become more prone to violence, stealing, and other crimes . According to The New York Times, “In 15 high-profile cases involving deaths of Blacks, one officer faces prison time” (Lee). Implicating that only one officer out of 15 cases was convicted for the crime he committed and the others were given a leave of absences from duty. For the families of those who didn’t receive rightful justice they were granted payouts to pay for funeral expenses leaving the officer able to walk away scot free acquitted of all charges. However, thankfully the family does walk away with a hefty amount of money but, at the expense of their love one’s life. Racism within law enforcement takes so many innocent lives each year on account of just because of race alone regardless if a crime was committed or not. However, society as well is a major component revolved around

He makes all the African American boys around him sit down. He says to the boys on the grass, “ yall making me F**king run around here with god d*mn gear on in the sun, cuz you wanna screw around out here.” He starts walking towards the lady’s and proceeds to tell them if they start running their mouths they are going to go too. He forces the girls to leave very offensively. The girls get upset because of how the officer is speaking to them like they are nothing but animals. One of the girls isn’t havening it and he talks back. The cop did not like this and he brings her in view of the camera and pulls her hair and in doing that pulls her to the ground. You hear eveyoen I nthe video get upset because that’s a female no one should be treated that way especially a female and a young one at that. She could really press chargers. The officer then pushes on her back and head forcing her to the ground and people start to come up to the officer trying to stop them. These two boys especially and the cop draws his gun on them. Two more cops come into the video and they move the officer gun and they run

“A young nigga got it bad ‘cause I'm brown, and not the other color, so police think, they have the authority to kill a minority. F*ck that Sh*t cause I ain’t the one.” (NWA, 1988). Today’s police brutality is ridiculous. Police brutality is the use of excessive and/or unnecessary force by police when dealing with civilians. Every other week a loved black citizen is taken away from us. Over the past decade, police have acted out in ways that have made people wonder if our officers of the law are really doing their job. Unjustified shootings, severe beatings, fatal chokings, and rough treatment have all contributed to the ever-present problem of police brutality in America. Police brutality refers to the

The film starts out when the writer and reporter Jelani Cobb starts his report on the Newark Police Department. He goes on several ride alongs with their gang unit to see the interactions with the people on the street and the police. In the intro he discussed the “rampant misconduct against the black community” so he was hoping to find reasons on why it was happening and how it can be reformed. In the gang unit he described the officers as predominantly black and latino just like the perpetrators which could lead someone to believe that if they are the same race as the people they are patrolling then there would be less racial discrimination. Later on in the documentary he talks with the mayor and when posited the question about policing those of your same race, the mayor of Newark, Ras Baraka stated that it’s “not who did it that makes it racism… the fact that overwhelmingly it happens to (a) specific group of people” is what the problem is.

The racist police officer had it set in his mind that Rubin Carter was a menace to society and he was going to do everything in his power to take him down. These things that Rubin was saying even made the cop want to put him away more. So the first chance he could get something on him he would. So it happened and the cop tried to pin a murder on Rubin Carter and another black man that was with him at the time of the murder. There was an instance that we saw an instance of stereotyping by other cops in that district. When they were out looking for the murderers they were told to look for two black men in a white car. When Carter was approached in his car he was told by