Police Brutality

Police Brutality: Police Brutality Against African American Males

            Since 1619, African Americans have been discriminated against. At this time, was the first time slavery was introduced. Many wealthy white men bought slaves to work in the plantations. As years went on, slavery was made illegal. States down south stated that separated but equal is expectable as long as everything is “equal”. Indeed, things were not equal. Separate but equal was finally abolished and everyone was equal. Although slavery was abolished, white males were not fine with this. Many policemen and other public officers would beat African Americans and get away with it. This has been going on since the beginning of time. Police brutality against African Americans is something that happens very often. Police brutality should be addressed because most of the brutality is against African Americans, many young men have died, and police often shoot unarmed men.

            Many court cases involve police brutality and most of the policemen do not get charged for the murder. Since a policemen is suppose to be a “model citizen” the court system automatically thing that they are right. I believe that the policemen are able to “pull some strings” and get out of the case. Since they have so high of a social status they are believed to be always telling the true. Therefore, policemen kill African Americans is because they know they can get away with it. Policemen know that is the victim’s word against theirs and the victims is dead so no one knows the real story. I also think that Policemen make an assumption of African American when they see them; especially in big groups. Big groups are looked at as a threat because people often think that when African American males are together, that they look scary. ` In the inner cities, such as Chicago, Atlanta, and Indiana, to name a few, this is often a big problem.In Chicago, the police brutality has only gotten worst. There is a report being presented to the United Nation s about the unnecessary police brutality toward minorities. There is some shocking statistics about this. The group of activist, presenting this to the Untied Nations, is asking for help for the torture that the Chicago Police Department has put young African Americans through. The police 92% of the time targeted African American and Latino. Policemen stopping using stun gun because they said they were not affective.
Although African Americans are the main race in inner cities does not mean that they are all involved in crime. Most of the people in Chicago are scared of the police.  Glenn Evans, police commander of Chicago, was fired after he was charged with aggravated battery for sticking his gun in the mouth of a suspect. You cannot do this when the suspect did not pull his gun or give him reason to do that. There is many studies on how often African Americans get shot by the police.

Police Brutality has been going on forever. It started back over 100 years ago. Only select cases make it to the limelight, such as: Rodney King, Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown and Eric Gardner. This has to come to an end. Young African American men need to stop being falsely accused of crime. Police Brutality should be addressed because most of the brutality is against African Americans, Many young African American have died, and police often shoot unarmed men. I hope that one day African Americans, like myself, do not have to worried about getting killed because the color of our skin.