Exemplification Essay: Ted Talk Police Corruption
Ted Talk Police Corruption
Chloe Barrett
43 year old Eric Garner was selling cigarettes illegally for 50 cents when a police officer approached him to put him under arrest. Eric argued with the officer as the officer attempted to cuff him. “Please leave me alone” He said as he tried to pull away, although this action demonstrated Eric’s failure to obey, this man portrayed no violence, no escape, no attacks. As he pulled free, the officer lashed at him pulling him to the ground in a chokehold. “I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe” said the 350 pound, unarmed man charged with a minor crime. With these cries for help, the police officer did not loosen grip. But with these cries for help, Eric Garner’s life was slowly slipping away. The unarmed Eric …show more content…
Garner lost his life that day, leaving his family along with his 6 children of a life without him (Goldstein and Schweber). This case was concluded as a homicide. Do you think the police officer’s action were necessary? No, they were not necessary. Of course at times, police officers have ever right to reach serious measures to control a suspect or protect themselves, but there are also too many times police have taken advantage of their status. We need justice for people who have been illegally attacked and even murdered by people in charge. Eric Garner, the well known story of Trayvon Martin, the well known African
American veteran Isaac Woodard who was blinded by being beaten by police hours after returning home, still in uniform, an innocent homeless man who was shot and
AFTER death, hit with a baton. These illegal acts stemming from racism and/or false accusations must be deceased.
From 2009 to 2010, $347,455,000 dollars in settlements and judgments for police fatalities were spent (Dantes).
Throughout the whole year of 2010,
57% of police misconducts were physical. (Packman)
51% of forced non-consensual sexual assaults preformed by police officers were with minors. (Packman)
Firearm fatalities took up 71% of types of police misconduct. (Packman)
As you can see from the statistics, assault, sexual assault, and murder by law enforcement is more common than the general public. (Packman)
The time spent behind bars of a police officer is juristically lower than an average citizen’s time would be for the same offense.
(Packman)
But aren’t police officers supposed to be like everyone else?
Six Philadelphia cops were caught for drug dealing, kidnapping, robbery, extortion, and false criminal. In one event, they threatened a drug suspect by holding him over a balcony from the 18th floor. They got $500,000 dollars in drugs, cash, and personal items in the illegal acts they committed within a span of two years. Law enforcement officers cannot take advantage of their status and misuse their power.
(Reads slide 12)
This amendment proves clear that police officers cannot use excessive force against a citizen before they have been tried before the judicial system.(Smith)
So what do we do when the people who are supposed to be protecting us are the murders, burglars, rapists, perpetrators?
Bring awareness to these crimes.
Stop leaving it in the shadows.
Whether it’s a regular citizen or law enforcement officer, it is a crime.
It is still a murder.
It is still assault.
It is still rape.
It is an injustice so be aware of it, acknowledge it, and stand up to it.
Work Cited Draft
"2010 NPMSRP Police Misconduct Statistical Report -Draft-."
PoliceMisconductnet.
N.p., n.d. Web. 21 Oct. 2014
"Disability Studies, Temple U." : 13 February: The Beating of Isaac Woodard (1946).
N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Oct. 2014.
Goldstein, Joseph, and Nate Schweber. "Man’s Death After Chokehold Raises Old
Issue for the Police." The New York Times. The New York Times, 18 July 2014. Web.
22 Oct. 2014.
(Some of my websites didn’t have an author.)
Chloe Barrett
43 year old Eric Garner was selling cigarettes illegally for 50 cents when a police officer approached him to put him under arrest. Eric argued with the officer as the officer attempted to cuff him. “Please leave me alone” He said as he tried to pull away, although this action demonstrated Eric’s failure to obey, this man portrayed no violence, no escape, no attacks. As he pulled free, the officer lashed at him pulling him to the ground in a chokehold. “I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe” said the 350 pound, unarmed man charged with a minor crime. With these cries for help, the police officer did not loosen grip. But with these cries for help, Eric Garner’s life was slowly slipping away. The unarmed Eric …show more content…
Garner lost his life that day, leaving his family along with his 6 children of a life without him (Goldstein and Schweber). This case was concluded as a homicide. Do you think the police officer’s action were necessary? No, they were not necessary. Of course at times, police officers have ever right to reach serious measures to control a suspect or protect themselves, but there are also too many times police have taken advantage of their status. We need justice for people who have been illegally attacked and even murdered by people in charge. Eric Garner, the well known story of Trayvon Martin, the well known African
American veteran Isaac Woodard who was blinded by being beaten by police hours after returning home, still in uniform, an innocent homeless man who was shot and
AFTER death, hit with a baton. These illegal acts stemming from racism and/or false accusations must be deceased.
From 2009 to 2010, $347,455,000 dollars in settlements and judgments for police fatalities were spent (Dantes).
Throughout the whole year of 2010,
57% of police misconducts were physical. (Packman)
51% of forced non-consensual sexual assaults preformed by police officers were with minors. (Packman)
Firearm fatalities took up 71% of types of police misconduct. (Packman)
As you can see from the statistics, assault, sexual assault, and murder by law enforcement is more common than the general public. (Packman)
The time spent behind bars of a police officer is juristically lower than an average citizen’s time would be for the same offense.
(Packman)
But aren’t police officers supposed to be like everyone else?
Six Philadelphia cops were caught for drug dealing, kidnapping, robbery, extortion, and false criminal. In one event, they threatened a drug suspect by holding him over a balcony from the 18th floor. They got $500,000 dollars in drugs, cash, and personal items in the illegal acts they committed within a span of two years. Law enforcement officers cannot take advantage of their status and misuse their power.
(Reads slide 12)
This amendment proves clear that police officers cannot use excessive force against a citizen before they have been tried before the judicial system.(Smith)
So what do we do when the people who are supposed to be protecting us are the murders, burglars, rapists, perpetrators?
Bring awareness to these crimes.
Stop leaving it in the shadows.
Whether it’s a regular citizen or law enforcement officer, it is a crime.
It is still a murder.
It is still assault.
It is still rape.
It is an injustice so be aware of it, acknowledge it, and stand up to it.
Work Cited Draft
"2010 NPMSRP Police Misconduct Statistical Report -Draft-."
PoliceMisconductnet.
N.p., n.d. Web. 21 Oct. 2014
"Disability Studies, Temple U." : 13 February: The Beating of Isaac Woodard (1946).
N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Oct. 2014.
Goldstein, Joseph, and Nate Schweber. "Man’s Death After Chokehold Raises Old
Issue for the Police." The New York Times. The New York Times, 18 July 2014. Web.
22 Oct. 2014.
(Some of my websites didn’t have an author.)