Chokehold

People tend to say we live in the land of the free and a place where anyone can achieve the all American dream. How true is that really? Can anyone really truly achieve the American dream, or is it only specific people that can have it. When big CEO or government officials are talking on TV they are usually white old men. Those white old men that can have the American dream without any problem. As far as that goes, it is hard for the minatory to achieve the American dream, let alone have their basic

Have you heard about any peaceful protests turned violent recently? It’s statistically proven that the amount of riots have increased over the years. We often stop and ask ourselves why this is occurring, however we don’t go into extensive research as to why. We live in an era overwhelmed by violence and rage which is only expanding. Because racial profiling and police brutality has become such a major issue during recent time, the amount of riots have accumulated. Many mass rallies have occurred

Even though we have an African American President, racism is still a part of American culture. After carefully reviewing the Brown, Garner, and Gray cases, it reinforced my belief that all lives matter. Minorities in America should be seen as a higher priority than we are now. We do not want to be superior to the whites, we just want to be on the same playing field as them. In all these cases, each unfortunate victim was mistreated due to the color of their skin and killed unnecessarily by the police

A California man offered a woman a ride to Wells Fargo and she accepted, not knowing what was about to be done to her. KTLA reports the man told her he wanted to have sex once she was in his truck, but she refused, angering the man even more when turned him down when he asked for her phone number. He snapped after being told "no" twice and drove into an alley where he put duct-tape on her face to quiet her screams. Luckily, a driver happened to pull up behind the truck that was blocking the alley

According to Community Relations Service, (2002) a U.S. Department of Justice agency created by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to resolve community racial conflict through non-coercive, third party intervention prior to 1985, a majority of the 50 states had laws that authorized the so-called “any-felony” policy that police could use firearms or any other means of deadly force to arrest a person suspected of committing any felony. Some states permitted police officers by law to shoot fleeing persons

Police Officers Should Be Able to Wear Body Cameras So far over social media we have seen so many police brutality situations where they were in a position of having a stronger voice over witnesses and videos. The way the police system works is that they do not want to see their best men get into judicial trouble. What do I mean by that is having to sit in front of a judge. Looking in on outside of the situations I could tell police officers worked together to try to prove a cop was not in the wrong

just starting to settle down another police involved killing happened in New York to an Eric Garner. This time the police did not shoot him; he died from heart related problems which people blame the police for his death after being placed in a chokehold until they could subdue him. In

The media plays a big role in how one gets and stays informed about all the local, national, and international events. Media can be local and national news channels, newspapers, social media sites like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Even though all media reports on the same event that does not mean that all the information is the same, the way it is reported, the same or the way people perceived the information. Most often the way media may report an event affects the way one looks at the event

Black Lives Matter is a very popular topic going on in today's world. People around the world have different reasons on this .I know this all started with the killing of Trayvon Martin. He was killed by a white man named Zimmerman. The killer was found not guilty. This movement it basically about cops killing African Americans without reason. Recently this matter has spurred. A Lot of protests are going on because of this. I'm writing this because I don't agree what the police around the world are

breaks out and eventually spills onto the sidewalk in front of the building. A crowd gathers and multiple policemen arrive on the scene to break up the fight. Buggin’ Out is arrested but Radio Raheem resists and is put into a chokehold. The officer holds Radio Raheem in the chokehold for too long, and after a few minutes he is dead. The officer drops his body to the ground while yelling at him to get up. After kicking Radio Raheem a few times, it is clear that he is dead. The policemen put his body into