What Does The Black Guy Do?

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)

In the world we live in today, racism and police brutality are raising concerns that society needs to be aware of. Beginning from the mid 1900s and on, racism was an ongoing problem that many individuals acted on from day to day. Whether it was mainly whites who hated blacks or vice versa, there never seemed as if a solution would ever come about. Based on this article about racism and police brutality, it talks a lot about how brutality following the Rodney King incident has change and is more exposed due to updated technology. Racism is not a thing of the past, it exist in this day and happens everyday in front of our eyes. Another point from this article is how the media portrays black as intimidating and scary which often times is the reason why police officers act the way they do when they are encountering a black male. Today’s society is taught to be afraid of black men because they are dangerous and unpredictable. The media account is a short video of how police brutality is caught on camera and how the police are portrayed because of these videos. Because of the new technology officers are no longer able to get away with brutality and not having to answer for there actions. This media account is more of an awareness video of how if someone sees the police physically abusing someone, they should take there phones out and record everything that is going on. Today’s camera phone as said to be the police’s kryptonite because they capture everything that is done by the

Our society shows how racism and police officers are a focal point within our country. In the United States, many police officers demonstrate racist qualities. Research states that many police officers are only patrolling around predominately African American neighborhoods. People agree that police officers are just sitting in areas where African Americans live instead of just sitting anywhere and waiting for any crimes. (Martin, Trayvon. Racial Profiling). Polices are just waiting for African Americans to make a mistake. Most Police Officers haven’t changed their ways on racism. “Diallo was gunned down by NYPD officers while trying to enter his apartment building. The officers had mistaken Diallo for a suspected rapist—who was also black’’ (Martin, Trayvon. Racial Profiling). NYPD killed an innocent man because he was African American and he looked like the guy they were looking for. Therefore, this just proves police officers have not changed their racist

All across the nation, in the news the black community has been making their voice heard, in regards to white police brutality, and murder against the unarmed black community. Many of these brutal attacks and flat out murders of unarmed black people haven’t been largely prosecuted, some officers have even been acquitted of any wrong doing or murder. This has led to outrage in the African American community at large. The shooting of an unarmed black teen named Michael Brown caused the racial strain in this country to break.

Over the last two years in the United States the African-American people have been fighting a war within our own backyards. The Washington Post reports that since January 2015, the police have shot and killed over 175 young black men ranging from ages 18-29; 24 of them were unarmed. On the flip side 172 young white men were killed, only 18 being unarmed. With these statistics there are similarities in the numbers but, blacks were killed at rates disproportional to their percentage of U.S population (1.Washington Post). Of all unarmed people shot and killed by police in 2015. With 40% being black men make up just 6% of the nation’s populations. In the wake of the killings of Mike Brown, Sandra Bland, Alton Sterling, and many more the world has been made more publicly aware of injustices black people have to handle when dealing with law enforcement. Crime in the black community is nothing new in the black community or should I say black on black crime. There is a bad stereotype that has been put on black people since slavery times that I believe has help fueled the violence between the police and my people.

Police brutality is becoming a trend in America. Tensions among the public and especially the African American community are rising due to the latest cases of police brutality. Many people believe that we have come far in this society but to be honest Racism is still a factor. The use of brutal and lethal force by some police officers leading to unnecessary deaths have African American parents on edge to send their children outside for anything. Law enforcement and people whom we trust with our lives are the very same to take it. Some people may want to argue that these cases such as the shooting of Michael brown and choking of Eric Garner are isolated incidents. Others would argue that the work of a police officer is too difficult and that sometimes an officer needs to use such force in order to enforce the law and protect him/herself while on duty. Law enforcement proclaims to feel threatened however what about the civilians who feel threatened of becoming the next target or victim of prey. The society is well aware that not all police commit these crimes and that we do still have law abiding officers. However, with the effort from everyone we can eradicate the bad apples and create a safer road for the officers and civilians.

The recent shootings of unarmed black men in places like Ferguson, Missouri and Baltimore, Maryland and the riots/chaos that followed are difficult to overlook. Sitting in front of a TV screen, puzzled, watching recordings of interactions between citizens and police only led me to more questions. News channels all over, broadcasting of what

Speaking of police brutality, quite recently, there's been a case of the shooting of an Australian white woman in Minneapolis. There's been a great outcry at the difference of coverage based on this woman and many black men who faced similar fates at the hands of police officers. News outlets immediately picked at the fact that the officer who killed the woman was a Somali black man. Additionally, action was taken just days following the shooting: the police chief was forced to resign. Though this was incredibly unfortunate and absolutely should not have happened to this woman, the rapid pace at which consequences were given out differs from several recent police brutality cases of black men; some cases of which took months to force a police

Grab the remote and take a seat. Put your feet up, and get comfortable. Now, turn on the television. What do you see? One day it is a police officer killing an innocent African American, and the next it is a crazy white man shooting and killing a mass of African American's. Notice a pattern? Every single news channel on television today broadcasts half of the truth. Yes, there are murders occurring. However, there is more to it than meets the eye. The media is racially bias, because they only report news stories where African American's are innocent, not where they are the culprits or killers.

Has one ever felt disheartened watching the news and the headlines says that there was another minority victim in an officer related shooting? Has one ever wondered why race versus authority is such a huge problem? Has one ever asked how did society get this far as to physically harming law enforcement? The answer is the media has allowed it to get this far. Race relations and authority has been a deep rooted problem since the founding of this nation. By enslaving Africans and other ethnicities, wealthy white forced them to long hard toils under the sun. Fast forward to the middle 19th century and those enslaved have been set free yet those people are still being oppressed. Fast forward now to the middle 20th century where one hundred

the last few weeks, there have been some terrible shootings. It seems like lately, there is another violent occurrence that takes place almost weekly. The most recent shootings have created a lot of commotion between African Americans and law enforcement. It had created quite an uproar in some of the public. A 32-year-old man in Minnesota named Philando Castile had been pulled over in a suburb and was shot by an officer while reaching for his wallet to show his license. His girlfriend and her young daughter were in the vehicle with him when it happened. Many individuals formed groups and began protesting within days over the matter because they believed that it had a lot to do with racism and law enforcement treats some individuals different

Living in today’s society, everything is portrayed throughout the media’s perspective. The media can have individuals disagreeing or agreeing on a specific topic as they try to build their genuine opinions around to make it look as though it is not a big issue; some of the media can be guilty of biased reporting. Racial profiling and discrimination is one of the most sensitive topics that the media is endeavoring to overlook today. African-American people are visualized as an individual who commits crimes or performs illicit human actions. There is hope that attention will be brought to the brutal acts of the police force and the acts of any discrimination still being a problem presented today: in schooling, public places, etc.

A major problem that drives the rift between police officers and the African-American community has to do with a type of thinking that dehumanizes African Americans. Media is a big influencer of that type thinking, where messages communicate, for the most part, that black is bad. Frantz Fanon (2008) discussed how media influences the way people think when he writes, “a host of information and a series of propositions slowly and stealthily work their way into an individual through books, newspapers, school texts, advertisements, movies, and radio and shape his community’s vision of the world (p. 131). The socialization that takes place via media outlets, contributes to what recent research has found to be “a proclivity to perceive someone with darker skin as more likely to have committed an immoral act, regardless of the person’s race” (Grewal, 2017, para. 2). The dehumanizing mindset, plus the power and authority inherent to police officers, plays a big part in how law enforcement engages the African American community.

One of the most evident forms of racism that can be seen, is police brutality. Law enforcement, is meant to protect and serve the citizens of the community. Through recent years, mostly thanks to media, citizens have seen just how unjust law enforcement treats people, especially African Americans. Of course, it is no surprise to see this, as we’ve seen just how vicious police have been to blacks, in the 1960s; Bloody Sunday, troops supporting the KKK, laws enforced to degrade blacks etc. You’d see blacks being prosecuted and arrested for no reason; you’d see them be accused of crimes they didn’t do, always being found guilty. This is relevant today, as blacks are still viewed as lower class citizens; labeled as ‘thugs’ who come from a problematic

The current conditions that i have in my environment usually is based on skin color but mostly African American are caught in the act of racism .I don’t usually see Civil Right issues that happen in my neighborhood and society but mostly on television with cops killing African Americans