Police Brutality Case Study

In 2015, the call to help towards ending police brutality in the African American community came to light with the death of many “Unarmed” African American Victims. Of the deaths, Sandra Bland, Mike Brown, Eric Garner, and Tamir Rice are among some of the victims whose deaths helped shed light of the issue of police brutality in the African American community. Of the deaths, the untimely and mysterious death of Sandra Bland showed the world the proof that Police Brutality cases are not really investigated as they should. Sandra Bland was an alumnus of Prairie View A&M University who had just received a job from her alma mater as a student ambassador (Sandra Bland). In the weeks before her death, Bland regularly used the #SandySpeaks hashtag

For example, the Michael Brown case both of which show examples of where unnecessary police force was used. In the Mike Brown case, Michael Brown was unarmed and shot dead in the streets of Ferguson, Missouri by Darren Wilson a white police officer (What Happened). The shooting would bring the fight towards ending police brutality to a new level (What Happened). According to the case, the incident begin when Michael Brown was caught on surveillance video stealing some cigarillos (What Happened). After leaving the convenience store, Brown and his friend were pulled to the side by Wilson and was claimed to fit the description of the convenience store thief (What Happened). Officer Wilson proceeded to make a call to the dispatchers about the two men (What Happened). Following the call, Officer Wilson positioned his S.U.V to block the two men as well as traffic (What Happened). During this time, several witnesses reported seeing an altercation between Officer Wilson and Mike Brown (What Happened). Despite there being various witness stories as to what happened at the time of Mike Browns death, DNA proved that there was some type of exchange before Mike Brown was shot (What Happened). Examiners found Browns blood or other DNA outside the driver’s door, outside the left rear passenger door, inside the driver’s door, on the left upper thigh of officers Wilsons Pants, and

Black lives matter is a chapter based national organization working for the validity of black life (Black Lives). Black lives matter is a call to action and response to the anti-black racism that permeates our society (Black Lives). Black lives matter is a contribution that goes beyond the extrajudicial killing of black people by police and vigilantes (Black Lives). Black lives matter values themselves on diversity, restorative justice, and globalism just to name a few in efforts to help bridge the gap between African Americans and others (Black Lives). The Black lives matter movement has done a lot through social media, news broadcast, and rallies to help bring awareness to the issue of police brutality (Black Lives). The Black Lives Matter movement is in no way an organization looking to build blacks and tear everyone else down. However, the Black Lives Matters movement is the voice for African Americans, and other Americans simply looking to better America, and our justice