Racial Profiling By Police

Police now a day are always trying to use more authority than they actually think they have because most people don’t know their rights. Cops will try to use what they can to arrest you for lying to them, and will threaten you. Being under arrest and being detained are two different things when being stopped. If you know your rights, just cooperate with the police officer, and if you’re not in any wrongdoing there should be no problems with you leaving the scene in no harm or handcuffs. At what point do you think that you are under arrest? Most people think right when they get put in handcuffs or even some may think when they get pulled over, but they are wrong. You are under arrest when you are not allowed to leave the police custody or
Being stop is when the police officer has reasonable suspicion that you are doing something wrong. This “is an interaction in which the citizen isn’t necessarily accused of a crime but also isn’t free to leave, at least until the officer indicates otherwise” (Schwartzbach, 2016). Being under arrested is different in some ways from being stopped. To be under arrest the police officer has to have probable cause without a warrant to arrest you, but if he has a warrant the police officer will already have probable cause to arrest you. For example, say the police officer stops you for speeding and sees that you have paraphernalia in your car. That gives the officer enough probable cause to make an arrest and take you
In the Eric Garner case when he was just standing on the sidewalk when the police officer confronts him; I believe they use too much force. In this case, Eric Garner has been arrested for selling cigarettes in front of the store before, but on this day Mr. Garner was not doing such thing. When Mr. Garner did not want to leave because he was not doing anything wrong, one officer got him in a choke hold and brought him to the ground. In doing this, the officers broke his neck and proceed to choke him. In one video, Mr. Garner is saying he cannot breathe, but the officer counties on choking him. When the ambulance arrived the officer who now has killed Mr. Garner approached one of the EMT and you can see that he is talking to him about something. In my opinion, he is telling the EMT to make it seem like he is still alive because the EMT was acting like he was still alive having a conversation with him. Once the autopsy report came out the said that Mr. Garner broke his neck on the way to the ground and die before the ambulance even