Police brutality, especially against African-Americans, has a long, dirty history in America. It’s a recurring problem that has never seemed to cease, and its occurrence and effects on society are often brushed off by those it does not affect. Police brutality continues to have a major effect on our society and through a series of events, leads to several outcomes. For instance, one of the major reactions and results of police brutality is the creation of social movements that are used to both protest…
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Civil rights activist Bayard Rustin once stated, “If we desire a society of peace, then we cannot achieve such a society through violence. If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society.” This task seems simple enough. Nevertheless, recently numerous deaths of African Americans occurred at the hands of white police officers who, more often than not, the court ruled innocent. These cases have caused riots and uproar…
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Police brutality, inequality, and injustice were everlasting problems for African Americans during the post-civil war era in the late 1900’s. Many African American hip hop artists would vocalize their frustration and anger of this civil injustice through a particularly unpopular and unrecognized form of art: hip hop. This expression of anger and devastation in the production of these police brutality related hip hop songs, were derived from a type of genre called “the blues”. This form of music incorporated…
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In the past decade, the amount of police brutality cases had increased drastically due to the police force suspecting many black men and women of being criminals. When the news report shows a police officer hitting a black man who was suspected of a crime, there are many people quick to point out police officers as racists. Usually, the police officers would say something along the lines of, “He attacked first and would not comply,” or “I thought he had a gun.” Now in some scenarios, this may be…
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This essay was written to inform and educate the public society in America about a serious problem that continues to occur in our country, and its called police brutality. There have been a lot of occurrences in the past couple of years involving police brutality towards an American civilian, and many American citizens have even taken part in exposing police officers for the crimes they have committed. Police Brutality is a serious problem that must be controlled in order to maintain a clean and…
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years now, society has believed that African Americans were viewed differently and still are because of the racial discrimination and police brutality. The importance of this is that the past was when people thought African Americans were not as superior as white people and some of those thoughts have been carried to today's society. Although freedom is for everyone, some of the racist thoughts and statements have been carried to today’s society, causing some of the same standpoints on African Americans…
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Racism has become imperative in our society today leading to most African American deaths. Color, equality and manacles of segregation and chains of discrimination, if MLK was alive today his speech would be quite similar based on the violence still going on today “THE BLACK LIFE MATTER” this is one of the issues Dr. Martin will surely look into and also the “POLICE BRUTALITY”. Throughout his speech he informs the people of the injustices that the African Americans are facing. He says the Emancipation…
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In recent news articles and broadcasts, we hear about many innocent African Americans getting killed due to police brutality. Police brutality is when a police officer uses excessive force (a force beyond what is necessary to handle a situation) when dealing with civilians. In most cases of police brutality minorities are the target. This issue is also the most common form of police misconduct. Police misconduct includes false arrest, intimidation, racial profiling, surveillance abuse, sexual abuse…
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In the world of the media, Colin Kapernick and plenty of other NFL players’ names have been displayed across headlines. Kapernick, an African American NFL quarterback, decided to opt out of standing for the National Anthem during a football game to protest police brutality against people of color. Since then Kapernick and his followers have received plenty of attention, praise by the organization of Black Lives Matter for finally protesting, and criticism by many supporters of the United States military…
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Police brutality has gotten out of control in the past few months or at least it has been recorded and spread by social media more than before. The root cause of this problem is something that is still not known completely. The explanation to why this specific police brutality, African-Americans citizens harmed by white American police, occurs could be a mixture of racial issue and class conflict. It can be said that White American cops are not to be blamed for everything. If a specific person of…
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