Streets Of Rage: A Case Study

On November 25, 2014, The New York Post published a newspaper will the front page stating ‘Streets of Rage’. This was in response to the decision to not indict the police who killed a teenager in Ferguson, Missouri. Michael Brown, a black eighteen year-old, who had just graduated high school, was shot several times by Darren Wilson. Wilson was responding to a robbery call when he encountered Brown who was walking down the street. From this encounter Wilson fired his weapon a total of twelve times, six of which hit Brown. Two bullets hit him in the arm and four in his front, one of which delivered the fatal blow through the top of the head. Michael Brown was unarmed. Whenever I think back to last year and remember this event, I am immediately troubled because an innocent person was killed for no
Another described him as a demon attacking Wilson relentlessly. That second description was said by Wilson himself when defending his name. It didn’t make sense to me, how can an unarmed teenager have the appearance of a demon? What harm could he do versus an officer with a gun in his hand? This seems to be a regular occurrence, an officer sets their sights on a black individual, claims they have done something wrong based entirely on their appearance. It happened in New York before Michael Brown was killed to Eric Garner who was held down by several police officers and put into a chokehold, which is illegal in the state of New York. It happened recently to black students who were kicked out of an Apple store in Australia because the workers were afraid they would steal something. All around the globe people are attacked solely based on their appearance. Black kids of America are terrified because they believe that they will be attacked next because to them police officers are not people who protect them but people who will hurt them if they so much as look at them the wrong