African American Police Brutality Essay

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Over a span of fifteen decades, police brutality of African American individuals, have become exceedingly prominent over the altitude of sixty(at minimum) years. Although, on January 1st, 1863 slavery was soon seen as politically incorrect and was abolished, African Americans were and still are, to most, inferior to the worth of Caucasian(white)personage. African Americans are still under the thumb of chauvinism speculations. We, as a people, faced and still face an incomprehensible amount of turmoil. These horrid events range from hosing, lynching, separation of items and facilities, organized beatings and even organized killings from various hatred-centered foundations. Not only that but these acts of racism used to be nation-wide accepted …show more content…
The men and women who’re supposed to be a sense of safety have become a nightmare that haunts many. In fact, one black man will be slaughtered at the hands of a police officer every twenty-eight hours. That means everyday a daughter has lost her father. That means a brother has lost his sibling. That means a mother has to sit in sorrowed tears as she watches her baby boy who’s not yet lived his life become one with the shadow of death. And the worst part is, the murder, the majority of the time, will be acquitted from all crime facing no charges. It’s as though through time racial hatred has evolved into something more lethal. At least before you knew what you were up against. Now you won’t know until it’s too late. Police officers aren’t just killing just anybody. Police officers are killing and beating who’re they’re predicted to kill and beat. They’re killing the same unarmed people they killed in “Bloody Sunday”(Selma). They’re killing the same individuals who share equivalent characteristics as Michael Brown and Christian Taylor. In the true incited words of The Washington Post’s journalists Sandhya Somashekhar, Wesley Lowery, Keith L. Alexander, Kimberly Kindy and Julie Tate, “It begins with a relatively minor incident: A traffic