Police Brutality Advertisement Analysis

“Too many cops, too little justice,” written in blood red says it all. This ad has a clear message about police brutality and the justice citizens are searching for; many Americans want an end to it with police facing real repercussions for their actions and citizens who are overwrought with all the lives that have been lost to our own defenders. Police brutality is an issue that has been around since the Civil Rights Movement and has yet to be resolved. First, glance at this picture the red words of the sign pop out at you. The red words literally look like they have been written blood ,but they also symbolize blood that has been shed over this issue. The red of the poster invokes feelings of anger; anger for what our society is allowing to happen. Next, the cops are in all black, which usually represents the color of evil, dark and menacing. Meanwhile, all the cops on the left and the citizens on the right. This placement is purposeful, because as people we subconsciously have associated the left with wrong or bad, and the right with right or good. Therefore, the cops are placed on the wrong side and the people on the right side, in hopes the reader will join the cause. Not to the mention, the fact this row of
When the video was released of Rodney King being battered by police, the nation was awakened to the truth of a black man’s life. Finally, when these policemen were brought to justice it felt as if it was a movement forward in the fight to equal justice and treatment for black men.Then again, in this day and age, we still experience many injustices such as the Michael Brown shooting. Not only was he unarmed but he was innocent. Databases can not keep up with how many innocent lives have been taken by cops; especially, in the war on drugs crusade. It seems as if drugs are still a problem and much more so