have been video recorded and put on social media. Police brutality has been a trending topic on social media because of the rising cases involving police using excessive force and the recordings of these events. Many famous cases have spiraled from police brutality including Michael Brown‚ Rodney King‚ and Sandra Bland. Seeing this has made people start to protest and riot. Others have been trying to come up with ways to prevent police brutality. Police officers jobs are to protect and serve their community
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justice due to the fact that through all of the cases of police brutality across America the public opinion towards police has been hastily decreasing and trust in the police along with it. As seen in the video that shocked New Hampshire back in 2014 (Berg‚ 2014) of police officers from the Seabrook New Hampshire Police Department slamming Michael Bergeron Jr.’s head into a wall and then using pepper spray on him‚ showing that police brutality can happen anywhere at any time and to anybody regardless
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Zemmouri 1 Samir Zemmouri Mr.Mccoy English 9 Period 7 15 May 2015 The Distortion of Police Brutality in Today’s Media We constantly see it in the news‚ “People rioting‚ demanding police reform” or the popular‚ “Who is policing police brutality?”. But if we look past the headlines‚ we will see that police brutality is nothing but a modern day myth. Media today is nothing more than a business with multiple companies competing against each other for higher ratings. With this in mind we have to consider what will pull in more viewers
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friends until one evening he is a victim of police brutality and being falsely accused of stealing when he was reaching for his cellphone. Quinn is a white boy who is well known for his father‚ who died serving his country. Seeing this violence around him‚ especially when the police officer responsible was his best friend’s brother‚ Quinn decides to stand up for what he believes in‚ equality. The occasion that prompted this novel is the police brutality that has been occurring all over the United States
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Asia Williams Sociology 002 Social Injustice/Police Brutality A social injustice‚ as understood in our society‚ is any action against an individual or group‚ which would deny them of their basic human rights. Police abuse remains one of the most serious human rights violations in the United States. Over the past years‚ police have acted out in ways that have made people wonder “are our officers of the law really doing their job?” Unjustified shootings‚ severe beatings‚ fatal choking’s‚ and rough
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riots and protests were happening all over the country. The reason behind these riots‚ and protests is police brutality towards the african-american community. Even though people don’t think so there is still a lot of racial discrimination going on in today’s society‚ where black people are being killed for no reason. So Slice got dressed and headed to school where this topic of police brutality had been on his mind all day. For some reason‚ when his teacher Ms.VanZegeren said the class needed to write
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Police Brutality What do you think when you hear about police brutality? It’s a social problem because many people don’t agree with the way police deal with suspects. Bad cops make wrong choices that cause violence but not all cops are abusive. I understand that some criminals resist on doing what they are told to do. The police have to do their job and control the criminal with force. If the criminal gets away then people will start complaining that the police didn’t do his job. If the delinquent
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“ If someone puts their hands on you‚ make sure they never put their hands on you again” Even though some people say that it is the victim’s fault‚ police brutality has gotten way worse than how it was back in the early 90s. Some police think they are above the law giving the mindset that they can do whatever they want to do and get away with it like it is okay. Americans seem to not want to come together and fight the issue‚ they are sitting back and just watching these terrible events happen.
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People of Color vs. Police Brutality Tamir E. Rice. Michael Brown Jr. Eric Garner. How many more unarmed minorities have to be unjustly murdered before someone starts to listen? The problem is not the community. The problem is not the peaceful protests that police have transformed into a vicious assault on the very people they are trained to serve and protect. The problem lies along the roots of law enforcement‚ the system itself. Police brutality against unarmed people of color is the sole fault
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footage on the news. What is it? Living in the United States‚ a lot of cases in today’s society are Police Brutality. Police Brutality remains the most critical and divisive human rights violation in the United States of America. We are supposed to trust the police to protect us‚ not take advantage and abuse the power‚ we‚ the people‚ have invested in them. The immoderate use of police brutality continues because police don’t know how to de-escalate‚ most cops face no disciplinary threats‚ and because
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