The Death Of Michael Brown

August 9, 2014 Michael Brown, a 18- year old black man was shot and killed, brutally at the hands of police officer Darren Wilson. Brown was leaving the gas station when he caught the attention of Wilson, who was supposed to be responding to another call. He thought Brown looked suspicious because he was a big, black “intimidating” man. Wilson “claimed” Brown was reaching for a gun so he fired twelve unnecessary shots at Brown while his hands were up. It turns out that Brown was not in possession of a weapon. Darren Wilson made up this allegation to make it seem like self defense, and to make Brown seem at fault for the shooting taking place. When Wilson went to trial the court found him not guilty. White police officers are not beingg held accountable so these police shootings are becoming more brutal and frequent. The Mike Brown

Police Brutality is a big issue in America. There has been many cases in which the Police Officer is put into question. Body Cameras have already been used in other states and it has proven that it reduces Police Brutality. On October 18, Corey Jones a musician was killed by a Palm Beach Garden’s Officer. Corey Jones was having trouble with his car so, he called his brother to come pick him up. The Police Officer didn’t have a body camera nor a police dashboard camera in his vehicle. He was was wearing a baseball cap, T-shirt, and jeans. He was driving in an unmarked 15-passenger van. There were no witnesses at the scene just the Police Officer and Corey Jones.The use of body cameras may invade the public or police privacy, but it helps more in cases because it provides evidence, reveals officers’ behavior, and protects the public as well as officers.

There is so much crime which occurs in our society today, which it is very difficult to put an end to it. But there is a thing which is common among these crimes which are the criminals. According to the article, "Police body Cams: Solution or scam? Nwanevu the author has stated many questions to which he gathers the responses from three panels who is Mariame Kaba a member of the Chicago antipolice violence organization, David Fleck a vice president and he is also a major manufacturer of the police body cameras, and Connor Boyack who is a president of Utah 's Liberates Institute. This article mentions the popular magazine such as Time magazine, this magazine reports that over a quarter of the country 's police departments are already testing or actively using cameras, including the NYPD and the LAPD (Nwanevu, 2015). Also the author Nwanevu states that The Obama administration has called for the federal funding to support the deployment of as many as 50,000 devices to state and local law enforcement agencies. The administration 's reasoning captures the perspective of most camera supporters. According to the status the usage by police officers will help sustain trust between law enforcement agencies and the communities they interact with (Nwanevu, 2015). Reformers have suggested that the video could have gone a long way towards resolving the ambiguities of the Michael Brown case where eyewitnesses had given conflicting stories and also the death of Eric Garner according to

In the past years there have been a multitude of cases of police brutality where the officer and the victim plead two different things. One of the most notable one of this decade is the Michael Brown case in Ferguson, Missouri. The shooting of Michael Brown happened in 2014 where a Ferguson police officer fired twelve shots at an unarmed Michael Brown. Witnesses have said many different things about what Brown was doing with his hands as he approached the officer. This killing created unrest in Ferguson and many riots followed in support of Brown. If the officer had a body camera we could see exactly what Brown was doing, whether he was surrendering or reaching for a weapon. This may have prevented the riots and gave solid evidence to prove who was the culprit in the case. Many more incidents like this have happened, but this one has been the more talked about in the

Within recent years there has been much controversy surrounding police officers and whether or not they should be wearing body cameras to document their everyday interactions with the public. While the use of body cameras may seem to invade the public or police privacy. Police-worn body cameras will be beneficial to law enforcement and civilians all over the world. Police must be equipped with body cameras to alleviate any doubt in the effectiveness of officers. Law enforcement worn body cameras would enhance the trust of the public by keeping both the officers and the citizens accountable for their actions, providing evidence, and helping protect them from false accusations, while protecting privacy

The shooting of sparked a nation-wide movement not only demanding justice for Mike Brown, but also protesting the racial discrimination deeply embedded in the criminal justice system as well as various institutions in the larger American society. Furthermore, jfdkjfjdakljk something about international recognition. Similar protests and riots have been springing up in other cities since 1960s, and police killings of unarmed black men happen once every 28 hours (Kahle, 2014). However, Michael Brown’s killing has led to the most sustained uprising against police violence in at least two decades, centered among the African American residents of Ferguson, and has rallied significant nationwide support as well as international attention (Kahle, 2014; Taylor, 2014). The killing of Michael Brown is by no means an isolated event, and presence of racial tensions, especially in the St. Louis area, was already present long before. The large-scale pushback that the killing of Michael Brown has set in motion, then, seems to have been the last straw, prompting the eruption of decades of pent up frustration at a racist and oppressive system. That being said, what are the previous straws that have slowly pushed the black community in Ferguson to the breaking point? What are the factors that have caused these tensions to boil over and erupt into such a large-scale upheaval? This paper will explore some of the

The heated issue of police brutality and police officers violating civil rights has extensively covered media headlines for several years. Hundreds of people are killed every year by police officers, and many of these cases bring up issues of police brutality. More often than not, it is usually a white police officer and an african american offender encounter that sparks media attention. The shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri is just one of these cases that has caused a major divide in the United States. Michael Brown was fatally shot by Officer Wilson after an unfriendly encounter in the streets. Those who believe that Officer Wilson made the right decision in shooting Michael Brown, point to the fact that the grand jury chose not to indict him. Although Darren WIlson was not charged after the shooting of unarmed Michael Brown, some people believe that his actions were unlawful and he should have received some sort of punishment for his wrongdoing. Acknowledging all of the facts of the investigation, Officer Wilson did not act properly in the circumstances of the time.

Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, was shot and killed on August 2014, by Darren Wilson, a white police officer, in Ferguson, Mo. Brown, an 18-year-old African-American was fatally shot and killed in the street shortly after robbing a convenience store. The disputed circumstances of the shooting of the unarmed young man sparked existing tensions in the majority-black community and law enforcements in Ferguson, Mo. The event received considerable attention in the U.S. and elsewhere, attracted protesters from outside the region, and generated a powerful debate about the relationship between law enforcement and African Americans and the police use of excessive force. The shooting prompted protests that shaken the area for weeks. The announcement of the grand jury that they decided not to indict Mr. Wilson set off another wave of protests. Many police officers have defended Wilson, pointing out that officers patrolling violent neighborhoods risk their lives, while demonstrators saw the case in terms of racism and police brutality. However, Brown’s killing and the following events in Ferguson became a national controversy touching on much larger national issues of race, justice, and police brutality. While the specifics of the Brown shooting involved is not clear, the situation would have been dramatically different had Wilson worn body camera which would have recorded the actual event. With new body camera technology

In America, many people are starting to come together and bring attention to the demand that police officer should wear body-mounted cameras these days. Police work has never been easy especially in a society that has negative attitudes towards police officers today, and their every move examined. One question that needs answering is that if police officer Darren Wilson, who shot Michael Brown had been wearing a body mounted camera, would Brown still be alive today. Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, was shot and killed on Aug. 9, 2014, by Darren Wilson, a police officer, in Ferguson, Missouri. After Wilson made contact with Brown and told the 18-year-old to not walk in the middle of the road, the officer reportedly realized Brown was

On a Saturday night in Ferguson, Missouri a 18-year-old named Michael Brown was walking home from stealing from the store and police officer named darren wilson was sent the description of michael brown and Dorian Johnson. Wilson backed up his police car in front of them to block them off their path then a confrontation happened between Brown and Wilson struggling through the window of the police vehicle. Then, Brown walked away from the car but turned around to face to car and walked back toward it. As he approached the car again Wilson shot at Brown several different times almost all in the front of him. Wilson shot twelve times at Brown and the last shot was most likely was the fatal shot. Brown was unarmed. There had been disputes about whether or not brown was reaching for wilson 's gun while the altercations happened through the car door window and the direction of brown was facing when he was shot. After months of riots in Ferguson over Brown’s seemingly unfair death, Officer Wilson was not indicted by a grand jury. This decision only cause more uproar and a national conversation about police brutality and racism. If Wilson had been wearing a body camera, all of this hurt, distrust and chaos could have avoided. Even though some people believe that camera are ineffective, police officers should wear body cameras while on duty because it creates a safer environment, it 's safer for the police officers and it gives evidence to hold

While the Black Lives Matter organization does not have a direct effect on any particular business as of yet, the results of the their demonstrations have. Rioting and looting have occurred in areas of rallies and protest, particularly in Ferguson, Missouri. In a result to this, the economy of Ferguson has been greatly affected, stunting growth and preventing businesses to flourish in the area.

The debatable topic of police body cameras has an extensive history to it. There has been a demand for more police surveillance since the civil rights movement, but within the past six years the demand for the new technology of body cameras has grown far greater than before. A popular example of this is the death of Walter Scott by police officer Michael Slager. Slager said in his report that he had to shoot Scott because Scott had obtained his taser and was a danger to him, however a bystander released footage showing that Slager put his taser near Scott after he and Scott had a struggle, then unnecessarily shot Scott in the back eight times ("Police Body Cameras"). This example suggests that without any film of this scenario obtained by

As I discussed in my WP2, The majority of academics come to the general consensus the need for the implementation of body worn cameras in policing is urgent(Aymer, Brown, Emesowum, Mollow, Schouten). Scholars focusing on the more ethical side for the need of body cameras include Anna Mollow, and Owen Brown. Mollow is a highly credible scholar due to her Phd from the University of California Berkeley and extended research in the field of racial, women’s queer, fat, and disability studies. She provided us with extensive evidence and research from John Hopkins University on the case of Eric Garner. Garner was murdered after experiencing excessive police force when not resisting arrest, and Mollow essentially argued the combination of Garner’s skin color and the fact that he was obese correlated with the excessive amount of force the officers used when restraining Garner, which lead to his death(Mollow). The author Owen Brown also uses ethics to provide reason for the implementation of body cameras. Although he uses the statistics of stop and frisk to support his studies, he supplements the statistics with studies including cases such as Trayvon Martin, a case although heavily debated at the time, many people have an emotional connection to(Brown).

One of the most important events that caused national controversy over body cameras the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014. The shooting of this unarmed African-American male sparked a national discussion, particularly since the offending officer did not go to jail. Therefore, many riots started in this area concerning police brutality and brought important attention to this longstanding issue. During his presidency, Barack Obama gave 263 dollars towards efforts to buy cameras for more police officers, and this monetary donation among other things has catalyzed nation-wide efforts towards regulating the use of body cameras for police. Unfortunately, like many new technologies, legislation is rapidly changing and adapting, trying to play catch up with these cameras. According to a policy analyst at the Cato Institute, Matthew Feeney, this is but “another example of technology moving faster than regulation and legislation” and thus, many laws have been yet to be developed to monitor their use (Boone). While police body cameras may be created to curb police violence, their use cannot be counted on to be this effective or useful. One of the underlying issues of this controversy is racism. Racial issues are crucial to many cases of police brutality, but the question is whether these cameras will actually stop racial issues. The fact of the matter is that the cameras will not do anything but grow problems of racism rather

In the stir of the police shooting of Michael Brown in August 2014, as well as the protests in Ferguson, Missouri and around the country, there has been a serious issue with the use of body cameras to promote the interactions with the police and the civilians. Body-worn cameras have received positive appraisal from the NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund,3 and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). The latter has stated that their widespread use has “the potential to be a win-win, helping protect the public against police misconduct, and at the same time helping protect police against false accusations of abuse.” In 2013, the Police Executive Research Forum sent surveys to 500 of the 12,501 police departments in the U.S and of the 254 who completed the survey only 63 of the departments reported using body-worn cameras. However, now law enforcement agencies in the country are now rapidly adopting the cameras.