Metro Police Injustice

The review board collectively decided that there is no misconduct, in this situation because this officer was just doing his job. Officer White used utilized a policing know as community policing; when you place a group of officers in an area to get familiar with the locals. ("Community Policing Defined", 2014) This means that these officers will do whatever is necessary to gain the trust of the people in the community. ("Community Policing Defined", 2014) In this situation, Officer White was doing just that, interacting with the kids in a positive way, and building the trust and confidence in the community. Instead of making a big deal about the noise they were making, he made them feel comfortable enough to play with them, building the trust between the public and the police, because as stated above over 5 million people viewed this

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

On September 8th, 2016 Keely Meagan, a 55-year old woman from Oregon, parked on the edge of Interstate 5 to because she saw that police officers had stopped a black driver. She claims that she was concerned about the driver’s safety due to the violence police officers have employed towards black people nationwide. She parked very close to an exit and was compromising the safety of everyone, but she refused orders to leave. On February 9th, she went to trial and was convicted for interfering with a police officer nevertheless, she was not charged with any punishments. The judge ruled that he didn’t consider her actions a case of civil disobedience, but praised the activist for her empathy.

Two different race men, both confronted by a white officer, and yet it was the minority that received the unnecessary confrontation. I feel that the officer that confronted the black man stereotyped him as being a criminal. When in reality he was doing nothing wrong.

In a South Carolina school, a female african american student was asked to turn off her phone and leave the classroom, but she resisted. Then, Deputy Ben Fields, a white officer, was called to the scene. In a video of the confrontation between the police officer and the student it is obvious that the force used in this incident was not appropriate. Deputy Ben Fields is shown grabbing the girl forcefully, grabbing her with a choke hold and then tossing her desk aside. He then promptly pulled her out of the desk and is shown sitting on her repeatedly saying “Gimme your hands”.

A man was arrested after assaulting a Boston Police officer early Friday morning, said police.

I am pleased that we are all speaking out against the injustice that happened to Sandra Bland. Some of us may be reluctant to speak out, because we are afraid of repercussions from our jobs; we might be offending our white friends; or we may think that this problem will go away if we refuse to address it. However, we cannot sit by quietly and allow police brutality toward mainly black citizens to continue. All black people should know that if we are in the wrong place at the wrong time, we, too, could be victims of police brutality. Nevertheless, there were no “rhyme or reason” why Sandra Bland should have been lock in a jail for a minor traffic stop. Some of us might say that she should have followed the officer’s commands, but when we

In Pasco, Washington, three police officers were being violated by Antonio Zambrano-Montes, a Mexican immigrant, who was supposedly throwing rocks at the officers. The officers eventually resulted in shooting the unarmed man and Zambrano ultimately died on the scene. The three officers involved in that case were eventually not charged but the state of Washington is planning to review the charging decisions of the officers. While the federal government is investigating Zambrano’s death, the county in which the incident happened is insisting on an inquest to restore the trust with the Pasco community. The governor of Washington said, “I want to ensure that people have confidence and trust in the decision that was made in this case” (The Associated Press). The account between Antonio Zambrano-Montes and the three police officers was caught on video through a cellphone and the video went viral. The video set off many protests in the city where the incident took place. But after the decision to not charge the officers, no protests took place. In Franklin county, where the shooting occurred, prosecutor Shawn Sant believes the three officers in the case acted “in good faith and without malice” and the people of the community are “not surprised by this decision, but are disgusted and disappointed” (The Associated Press). There are no statements give by the officers involved, Adrian Alaniz, Ryan

“Anecdotal” evidence gathered by David A. Harris, of the University Of Toledo College Of Law recounts the nightmarish story of SFC Rossano V. Gerald, a “highly decorated soldier and a black man of Panamanian descent,” as he drove with his son into Oklahoma. Gerald was stopped two times within the span of thirty minutes. In the course of the “second stop,” according to Harris, Gerald and his son, Gregory, were kept for two hours while the police searched his car, intimidated the sergeant’s twelve-year-old son with the police dog, put them in a car with no air conditioning and told them that the dog was there to attack if they tried to get away. Realizing they could be breaking the law themselves, the officers turned off the “patrol car’s video evidence camera,” in the middle of the incident (Harris). The abuse that Gerald and his son experienced is not an apparition, it is standard operating procedure for police officers, Harris explains. Police officers are empowered by the Supreme Court to search cars for drugs as a part of the “war on drugs.” The problem is that “African Americans and Latinos” are targeted for such searches; their rights are being violated (Harris). In the face of data collected by the police, their denial of racial profiling persists (Harris). The

There have many cases dealing with racial profiling from officers and the law enforcement. Individual such as Sandra Bland, Mike Brown, Trayvon Martin and many more have all been victims of a crime and killed for no reason at all. Sadly, no one truly knows the real story behind these cases because there was no proof whether or not Mike Brown has his hands up, or if Sandra bland killed herself, or if Treyvon Martin was attacking someone. No one has evidence to back up their claims but the citizens of the U.S know and we believe that our system is tricky, sneaky, and does not care about us. Many cases have brought up questions of the police officers true motives leading to this distraught controversy. Some say there was a time when we could believe everything that was said in the court of law, especially once someone was under oath. Those times are long gone but I feel those times weren’t based off truths either. Today, we live in a society where we often end up resulting to he said, she said or laying the blame on others rather than taking full responsibility for what you’ve

He pulled over a black SUV that was just reported stolen however it was the wrong vehicle and his partner told him it wasn’t the vehicle they were looking for. When Officer John Ryan seen that it was a black couple he pulled them over. Officer John Rayan had the couple get out of the car after the black female would not stop yelling at him. As he went to search the female he did it in such a way that it was degrading not only because she was black but because of her being a female. During this time her husband just stood and watched because he was too afraid to say anything because of him being a black man with two white cops. He thought if he said anything they would get into a lot more trouble. Also this involves sexism. It involves sexism because the white cop felt that he was more superior to the black women. Sexism is when a person feels that they have more power over someone of a different sex (Schaefer,

The cops on the case were David Roberts;white male, Ian Hobbs; white male, and Rita Osla-Sawicki; white female. In this case the suspect was walking down the street with a BB-gun and a witness called it in because they thought the gun was real after he tried to threaten some people with the BB-gun. The police officers threw the African American man on the floor and the suspect was telling them the gun was a BB-gun. The cops disregarded him and kept on searching him, the behavior the white cops had on the young man was very rough and violent and then the suspect got out of hand and started cursing at the officers. Previous to this arrest the same officers arrested him 4 days ago for carjacking a

You brought up a good point. As in my other post, I have mentioned that minorities are underrepresented in the U.S police department, therefore; the issue of bias and prejudice against the police cannot be reduce. When minorities feel like that they cannot trust the police because they are underrepresented than it will only create segregation among the multicultural community. The only way that to reduce problems like discrimination and harassment is to hire more various ethnic background officer, so that the community would feel that police officer are diverse and that would reduce the bias against police.

Now that I informed the police about the most basic measures of searches and seizure from historic cases of police mistakes, here are some correct things you can do that won’t penalized you. The Court’s decision in Terry vs Ohio explicitly signals that police can act on more than a “hunch” and that if it is protecting an officer’s safety, you can seize someone’s weapons. In the case with United States vs. Sokolow and his circumstance, you learn that you can search his bag if you have reasonable suspicion that respondent was engaged in illegal wrongdoing. Also, the Court’s decision in Illinois vs Wardlow explicitly signals that if a police officer has justification to suspect that the accuses was involved in criminal activity, he can investigate

Then, one day I was watching a video of an African American couple being detained because they had supposedly participated in fare evasion. Soon, as the number of police officers increased and were about to remove the pair from the train station, a few bystanders confessed to witnessing the couple actually pay the price of admission. That is when the original, Caucasian police officer not only claimed that the couple had assaulted her, but also threatened the witnesses to leave if they wanted to avoid incarceration.