Mckinney Naps Video Analysis

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.

On March 5, 2016 Earledreka White, a black 28-year old social worker, was pulled over by a Metro Police officer in Huston, Texas for crossing the double white line. During this incident White was placed in handcuffs and charged with resisting arrest and search, a misdemeanor that carries a potential six-month sentence, and jailed for two days on $1,000 bond. Later on in the case White’s attorney released the surveillance video that shows the arrest with the 911 call playing as it unfolds. While watching the surveillance video I was shocked to see the treatment White was receiving for a traffic stop and the way the metro police officer handled the situation. Before this incident White had no criminal record, but the police officer treated her

One of the recent incident of police brutality went viral after a caucasian police officer 's Mr. Fields body slams an African- American female high school student in South Carolina. The student was seated at her desk on her phone when the officer through her to the ground and across the floor before arresting her. One may argue that

One woman, an elementary school teacher, said that when the police showed up at school, the seven year olds were repulsed, and that should not be how it is. Another woman discussed how she watched COPS, and white people were being much more violent with the police than what she has seen black people do in her neighborhood, but the officers did not tackle the white people. Next, it was shown that two gang unit officers were reprimanded and one was suspended. One for cracking a man’s arm in half, and another for forcing a woman to give him oral sex. After this, the DOJ disbanded the gang unit.

Police brutality against the black youth in America is not uncommon news to us, it dates as far back as 1999 when four police officers shot forty-one bullets at and killed Amadou Diallo, a Guinean immigrant, in the Bronx, NYC. The officers later claimed to have seen Diallo reaching for something that looked like a weapon but actually all he had in his hand was his wallet. However, all four policemen were acquitted if all charges in the case, in fact, one of the killer cops, Kenneth Boss, stayed on the force and was allowed to carry a gun again in 2012.

Furthermore while watching this video, I was really shocked to see how the police force was mostly non-whites because I think when people think of an officer violating someone’s rights they mostly think of a white officer. In this case it is Latino officers who are from Newark. In the video you see them mostly stopping and frisking black people.You would think that growing up in Newark and knowing what or economy was like and how non-whites are always targeted, you would think the Latinos would have a little more respect towards people of color. But, that is not the case in this documentary and that just goes to prove former attorney, Song Richardson, right when she spoke in my Criminology class about stereotype

Rufus Scales, 26 and black, was driving his younger brother Devin Scales to his hair cutting class when they heard the siren and saw the blue light flash in the rearview mirror of their black pickup. They were pulled over for minor infractions, but what happened next was nothing like a normal traffic stop. Shocked and uncertain of whether to get out of the car, he reached to restrain his brother from opening the door. A black officer had stunned him with a taser and a white officer had pulled him out of the driver seat. Temporarily paralyzed by the shock Rufus scales fell face first as he was dragged across the asphalt and suffered from and chipped tooth. He was charged with assaulting an officer even though there was no evidence of assault. He also had suffered from traffic tickets and a split upper lip that required 5 stitches. This had occurred in May 2013 but atrocities like these still take place. In our society police misconduct and racial profiling is still a reoccurring problem. According to aclu.org racial profiling is the discriminatory practice by law enforcement in which they target individuals based on their race, ethnicity, religion or national origin. According to galegroup.com, police officers in Greensboro, North Carolina

Yes you heard that right. Police can get away with anything in this country. If a black man or woman does anything that makes them a target is a crime. And for that crime they can get more than 5 years for a petty crime. This isn’t police brutality but it falls in that category because a young man was assaulted by an officer than later shot.

Cops and African Americans don’t seem to being getting along, is the African American community broken or are the cops to be blamed. Over the past years you have heard of people, more specifically African Americans, being harmed or killed unarmed. It is no surprise that cops are treating them as dangerous animals. A cop managed to kill Samuel DuBose, forty-three years old, who escaped from the hands of the cop and was running away. The cops said that he had feared for his life when Samuel truly had never truly harmed or threatened the cop.

As for our last case another African American male and Caucasian police officer were involved. Black male Eric Garner was supposedly confronted for selling cigarettes on the street, one of the officers Daniel Pantaleo who had Eric in a chokehold which caused the death of him. This took place on July 17th, 2014 in Staten Island, New York City. Within the department I was surprised on female African American NYPD Sargent Kissy Adoni on how she did not intervene. As a result of Garner 's death, Police Commissioner William Bratton ordered an extensive review of the NYPD 's training procedures, specifically focusing on the appropriate amount of force that can be used while detaining a suspect. According to CBS New York Bratton stated “we are not targeting communities of color, we are targeting behavior. Also that policing unfortunately, when force is used, it’s never good to look at.” As a compassionate individual, Bratton recognized that there was excessive force and the use of a chokehold was not authorized by the departments regulations. After looking prior to incidents chokeholds are prohibited in the New York City police department along with most departments but these officers still proceed. Both officers involved have been assigned to desk duty by orders of the commissioner. Commissioner Bratton plans to move forward with Internal Affairs investigation directed by our prosecutor. His leadership highly seen in regards to the case and department in ordering an extensive

The brutality of the police force has been a long worldwide problem, but especially between the years of 2012-2016. Black people are being unjustly beaten and shot in plain sight for doing nothing while being unarmed. Journal of African American Studies “Blacks are viewed as deserving of harsh treatment in the criminal justice system” (482). “Black males with more “Afrocentric” features may receive longer sentences than blacks with less Afrocentric features like lighter skin and straighter hair”(482). Nowadays it is important to know about the police force. It’s important to know our rights as citizens and be careful around cops. Not everybody is good, but not everybody is bad also. In The New York Amsterdam News 21 people were killed by Chicago police in 2008. Entire families were being attacked. They believe it’s because of their skin color and how they are different. The year of racism started off with the world seeing the police murder of Oscar Grant. “The media have pushed people away from hearing the issue of police brutality, and it has fallen off of the radar screen.”(2) “You can’t give in. They will try to make an example out of you, try to break your spirit!”(2) African Americans say do not trust the cops with anything. “They will ruin you.”(2)

One night in April 1998, two New Jersey state troopers pulled over a van containing three black men and one Hispanic man, all in their early twenties and all unarmed. During the stop, the van began to roll backwards. Although the van's driver would later claim that he put the vehicle into reverse by accident, the troopers believed he was attempting to intentionally back over one of them. In response, the troopers—both white males—fired 11 shots at the van, hitting three of the men inside, one of whom was severely wounded. Many African Americans and Latino face racist police officers. Not much they can do about it either besides sit there and take it. The topic of racism in police officers has deep history to consider, and there will always be both supporters and critics who continue to debate this topic.

How about if this guy was “White”. I do not believe that he was arrested nor charged with those allegations. Police ruthlessness occurs for a number of reasons: the most common is racial discrimination against African American and Hispanic. Despite any laws, law enforcement historically struggled with race and gender discrimination. They can be bias and discriminatory. What do you think?

Were not apart of that crowd, we don’t even go to that school or know what school these teens are from,” I said calmly. Another officer approached us. I thought to my self that this could only mean more trouble. It was another white man, who was basically a giant compared to the other officer. This one had blonde hair and blue eyes. In a reasonable voice he asked us “ Do you guys mind clearing the area?”. He seemed nicer than the first cop. I looked him dead in the eyes and told him, “I don't understand why. We aren't doing anything. You passed the handrail a group of white kids are sitting on, just to come to us and tell us to leave? Why didn't you say anything to

Everyone will be at one point in your life a victim of something based on your race and that is absolutely heartbreaking. Something that you can’t control, that’s in your DNA, and you’re being judged on it. Everywhere in the news there is always another story, usually a white cop, of a cop killing a black man. These stories are getting to become all too familiar and it’s almost always the same reason, the cop felt like they needed to use deadly force in a situation where that wasn’t required. In the Eric Garner case where a New York City police sergeant, Sgt. Kizzy Adonis, put Garner into a choke hold killing him. “New York Police Department Sgt. Kizzy Adonis was one of the supervising officers at