Why Do African Americans Need Police Brutality?

“Hands up! Don't shoot!” is a phrase now commonly used among African American protestors whose aim is to empower and encourage fellow African Americans to take action in the struggle for social justice. Police Brutality may be described as the deliberate use of excessive force, usually physical, carried out during law enforcement activities with the population. The problem with the illegal use of police power is an existing reality for individuals of an aversion race, class, or sexual orientation but, mainly African Americans in the United States. In 2015, it was reported that 37% of unarmed people killed by police were African Americans despite their population being only 13% of the overall population in America (mapping police
According to a 2015 study to find out African Americans who were treated unfairly by police, 6 out of 10 African American men have been treated unfairly because of their race and 3 out of every 5 families had someone being treated unfairly because of their colour. This gives evidence that there is racism and illegal power use among police officers against African Americans in the United States. In an analysis by the US Department of Justice, it was discovered that African Americans were twice as likely as white people to have a non-fatal force or threat used against them during police encounters. It was reported that compared to whites with 1.4% and Hispanic with 2.5%, A 3.5% of African Americans who had an encounter with a police officer was shouted at, threatened, kicked, pushed, grabbed, hit or was pepper sprayed, tased, shot and wounded with a gun or attacked with some sort of force. One out of many Cases of police brutality includes an African American teenager who was physically harmed by multiple officers during a police encounter. 15 years old Chad Holley, who was beaten, fist and kicked by multiple police officers while in a surrender position was captured on tape. The brutality was caught on security camera after holley attempting to flee a
In 2015, it was reported that unarmed African Americans were killed 5 times the rate of unarmed whites. In total, there were 102 cases where unarmed African Americans were killed and only 10 cases actually lead to police officers being charged. African American males between the ages of 15- 34 years made up more than 15% of deaths recorded from an investigation into deadly force used by police in 2015. Across America, 1,134 persons were killed by police in 2015, 89% was of deaths where by the use of a gun, 4% was from the use of Taser, another 4% from being in custody following a physical confrontation and 3% were from persons struck by police vehicles. An example of excessive force used by an officer, caused the death of 18 years old Michael Brown, an unarmed African American teenager who was shot dead on August 9 by Officer Darren Wilson. This incident triggered a huge protest for the injustice of Mike Brown’s killing and gave birth to the “Black Lives Matter” moment and demonstrations all over the United States, These moments started because the officer involved in killing 18 years old Brown was not