The first issue brought to the viewer’s attention during this documentary the police’s actions during arrests; this came up during the story of Anthony Baez. Anthony was killed by police after his football hit a cruiser parked on the street. Officer Livoti choose to place Anthony Baez in a chokehold until he lost consciousness then placed him under arrest and dragged him to the patrol car without calling for the paramedics. There is no reason to put someone in a chokehold as an officer; especially since they are equipped with pepper spray, taser, baton, handcuffs, and gun. For whatever reason Officer Livoti decided to attack Anthony Baez for, he did not have any reason to place Baez in a chokehold.
The act itself is disappointing but more importantly I was bothered by the fact that there are many white individuals who fall victim to acts of police brutality but they don’t receive as much attention because they are not minorities (especially as much as african americans and latino’s do). “Deaths of whites at the hands of law enforcement typically receive less attention, even when the case is shrouded in controversy.” (Richardson, 1). This is an issue as a nation, we are fighting for unity among us all so I find it particularly odd that I never hear cases of police brutality against white individuals on the news, but constantly I come across one’s relating to african americans. All cases of police brutality are wrong despite color, race and ethnicity and we all deserve the right to raise awareness of this growing issue!
The Sandra Bland case truly has me disgusted and heartbroken, if you seen the video you know what I am talking about, its so hard to watch... Every time I 'm stopped by a cop I 'm immediately scared because #1 I am young African-American male and #2 I still have my South Carolina state drivers license and I now live in a different state... No one should ever have to feel this way I pray every time I get pulled over and call my oldest sister Timeka Kimberly Wilson-King.... GOD please watch over my people cause we constantly being targeted for the COLOR OF OUR SKIN... #SandraBland
Between 1992 and 1993, Los Angeles county alone paid more than $30 million to citizens victimized by police brutality” (45). Explanation: This quote is important because it shows the devastating aftereffects of racial targeting and abuse by police officers. The money being spent isn 't really the problem here, but what is, is that African-Americans are usually the ones that the police never give the benefit of the doubt. If the police don 't spend more time investigating before quickly convicting an innocent person just based on their skin color nothing will
The relevance of these cases the victims were black, and police have caused the death of the black people. Why do these problems still
Civil liberties are different than Civil Rights. Where Civil Rights are to prevent the government from abusing us by treating the people wrong and unequally. The Civil Liberties are there to limit the government power on the people. It is there to protect our freedom. That is why we have our freedom of speech which protects us people from having the government limit what we say.
Many black police brutality victims rarely ever get justice but especially if they have committed or have a history of committing crimes, whether recent or past, both the press and the department will release that information for the simple purpose of justifying, blaming, and basically villainizing the victim for what was done to them, of course the public usually believing
“This Civil Rights Act is a challenge to all of us to go to work in our communities and our states, in our homes and in our hearts, to eliminate the last vestiges of injustice in our beloved country.” —Lyndon B. Johnson. Peoples judgement are clouded by ignorance and others by family accusations. People back in the 1800-1900 's were very ignorant when it came to the thought of equality among people of a different race. The three Supreme Court cases influential to the civil rights movement to make all men created equal, no matter the color of their skin: Dred Scott vs. Sanford, Plessy vs. Ferguson, and Brown vs. The Board of Education
There’s a lot going on about the world and how cops use excessive force when it comes to taking down the bad guy. This topic focuses on the black lives matter movement because they are letting cops get away with murder because the color of their skin and they wear a blue uniform with a badge. In many cases such as Michael Brown, Christian Thomas, and the little African American who the cop threw out the chair in SC. where the authority use excessive force to make their position clear in the society, but they do it too extreme and not needed. While sometime the amount of force is needed to withstand the victim , police abuse their authority in many cases because they can and is not needed but racial bias is playing a part.
On contrary, civil rights are the positive actions that government should take to maintain harmony and equality among all the citizens. Since, the long run of civil rights has always been associated with the freedom of African American, immigrants and
Civil rights have evolved largely over time. During the eighteen hundreds, fight for civil rights largely centered on equality for African Americans and women. For African Americans, even though they were free men and women, they continuously were treated as less than “whites”.
This is not a racial issue, this is a social problem. By July of 2015, the number of police- related deaths extended to 664 making the country’s police force one of the deadliest in the USA. Out of the total of 644 deaths, 321 were Caucasian fatalities, 174 were African Americans, and 96 were Hispanics. According to the reports, 578 of these deaths were involved guns, others involved car
Civil Rights can be most aptly defined as specific privileges possessed by an individual through citizenship that the government is obligated to protect, including the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses under the 14th Amendment. Furthermore, Civil Rights constitute an individual’s entitlement to equal treatment under the law and freedom from unjust discrimination. The Supreme Court, as the nation’s highest judicial power, should play a substantial role in protecting and expanding (when necessary) the Civil Rights of citizens in various societal institutions including education, housing, employment, voting, marriage, and public amenities. Although many would argue that the Supreme Court lacks the power and influence to enforce its landmark Civil Rights rulings (e.g., Brown v. Board of Education I & II), it none-the-less performs
In 1964 the civil rights movement act helped protect citizens from discrimination in the work place. The civil rights movement act was actually the first law ever made to protect people from discrimination. You would think by the sixties someone would have already mentioned something about getting the workforces fixed but nope! As the saying goes, better late than never though.
That’s approximately 25% of all the people who got killed and that’s a lot considering that black people only constitutes 12% of the population. Except from that I think we all remember Alton Sterling who got killed by police officers while selling CDs even though he was totally innocent. An awful incident like that is something that only happens in segregated societies and it’s just once again proving my point. An innocent man would never have been killed in Sweden for example because we don’t have racist police officers like they do in the US. Now you may think about why it’s like that, why are the american cops so racist?
