History Of Police Brutality

Police brutality is the use of any excessive force that is unreasonable or unwanted. Police brutality has had a long history in the U.S. In the early days of policing, acts of mass brutality were usually attributed to the poor labor workers. Back in the day young black slaves were targeted to be beaten or lynched. In most black minds today they see a pattern occurring over and over. As years go by blacks are being targeted, gunned down, killed, and put into jail by police officers. The brutality and the harraments that gets weighed on blacks are a way of showing that we still live in a world where racial discrimination goes on and police brutality gets even strong and it has become a serious cause in the U.S. Most cops are trained to be
“Blacks are presumed to be up to no good, to be no good. Black lives are flippantly extinguished, not least by cops, by state representatives, by law and order” (David Goldberg). As days go by blacks will always be looked down on, the lack of respect that is showed by authority and courtrooms are ridiculous. The law enforcement thinks killing, hurting, and brutality beating blacks will get them to stop acting in a disrespectful manner. In order for police officers to have the respect from blacks they must treat them with the same respect. Movement focuses on the fact that black citizens have long been far more likely than whites to die at the hands of the police, and is of a piece with this history. Black people have endured for struggles then white people. The lack of indisputable acts towards blacks does not democrat who they are as people. the lives of black citizen in this country has a historical background to why blacks act a certain way. Blacks have been discounted, Misunderstood, and understandably uncomfortable with their skin because they are living in fear that police officers will take there life away from them at any second. Being in a world where black will never gain the respect for police is hard to live by. typically African Americans fear for what the future will look like. As time goes by police do not notices how many lives they have taken from the black community. To see that racial discrimination is continuing through generation after generation is hard to deal with. As blacks want to be able to lend cops there trust, it's kind of hard if police officers are just going around killing blacks for the pleasure and feeling some type of towards their action and the percussion that they have to make. As young black lives are being taken, and more are