The Police's Actions: The Murder Of Anthony Baz

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. Instead he took advantage of his role as a

The report stated that she startled the officers which resulted in the passenger shooting Damond in the abdomen and no one to this day knows why she went to the cruiser; however, Officer Noor’s actions were uncalled for. It makes no sense; Officer Noor gets scared and therefore justifies killing someone? If that was possible hundreds of people would have been killed; more than they already do now. In fact, the only reason Officer Noor is not in jail is because he is a police officer; if anyone else did this the person would not be running around freely. Instead they would be facing the justice system and possibly already in court facing charges for the crime they committed. Another case that comes to mind about the “shoot first and ask questions later” theme that seems to be happening more and more recently is the Philando Castile case. Castile was shot dead when he was reaching for his driver license. Much like Diallo’s case, Castile was mistaken for a robbery suspect because of his “flared nose,” that officers somehow saw while Castile was driving-by. Therefore; officers pulled him over and asked for his license and registration, only to shot him because the officer thought he was reaching for a weapon. Again, this brings to question our safety as citizens, how we are not even

Just the other day a BPD officer took only look at my car and for some reason decided to speed up to me but just as I thought I was about to get pulled over, the officer changed lanes and pulled up to the side of me. Once he was exactly on the side of my car, the officer braked hard to stay exactly on the side of my car; afterwards, the officer simply stared at me. Hundreds of things ran through my mind about the reason this officer was acting the way he was that night; my lights were on, I wasn’t speeding and I wasn’t driving recklessly. This officer backed off as soon as he saw my badge attached to my uniform which made me glad that I didn’t change once I got off work. That experience brought to mind and to the mind of hundreds of citizens is racial profiling. All cases mentioned—except Justine Damond—have the possibility of racial profiling to be one of the reasons the officers involved acted the way they did. Anthony Baez was a Hispanic male which means he was a gang member, a criminal and tended to be violent. While Eric Garner, Philando Castile, and Amadou Diallo; were all African American males which means they could be drug dealers,