The Relationship Between Hamilton And Brown

Recent events surrounding the shootings of several unarmed, young black males have sparked political and social outrage across America (Boswell, 2014). Regardless of whether the shootings of Dontre Hamilton and Michael Brown, were justified, the way in which the white police officers who shot Hamilton and Brown described these young men raises curiosity and warrants analysis. On April 30th, 2014, 31-year-old Dontre Hamilton was shot 14 times by Christopher Manney (Hayes, 2014). Manney argued that it was impossible for one man to restrain Hamilton, as he was extremely strong and muscular. In actuality, Hamilton was 5’7”, mentally ill, 169 pounds, and overweight. Four months later, Michael Brown was shot by police officer Darrin Wilson on August 9th, 2014 (Serwer, 2014). In his testimony, Wilson described Brown as a

Four factorial ANOVA’s were performed examining the relationship between superhumanization score, target race, and how these factors influence the estimations of height and weight for each of Thomas and Timothy All four ANOVA’s failed to produce significant results. With that being said, four additional factorial ANOVA’s were performed examining the relationship between target race and the estimations of weight and height for both Thomas and Timothy. The relationship between target race and the height estimations of Timothy was significant, F (1, 122) = 25.03, p < .05, MSE = 5.7, η2 = .17. Similarly, the relationship between target race and Thomas’s height estimations was significant, F (1, 121) = 28.71, p < .05, MSE = 4.2, η2= .19. The relationship between target race and Thomas’s weight estimations was significant, Thomas Weight, F (1, 122) = 5.7, p = .02, MSE= 471.9, η2 = .05. The relationship between target race and Thomas’s weight estimations, however, was not significant, Timothy Weight, F (1, 120) = 2.7, p = .1, MSE = 501. 6, η2 = .02,