By Taiden Campbell
Many cases have been presented to the public of police brutality. Even though police brutality has been around for a while, it’s been dominant more recently. Big news stories have come out surrounding the topic of police brutality such as the events that occurred in Ferguson that’s made the public want to try and make a stand against it. Protests have sprung out in a handful of cities and now, even countries. These protests are trying to spark a change and provide a better future for kids who hopefully won’t have to grow up with police brutality plaguing their lives.
To begin with, the wave of police brutality should be nothing new to you. The term “police brutality” dates back to as far as 1872 when the Chicago Tribune reported a beating of a civilian under arrest at the Harrison Street Police Station.
However, police brutality was at it’s highest back in the mid 60’s when protests were happening every day for no segregation laws and the whole debacle between black activists and white supremacists. A plethora of cases were reported from that time of the protests of police beating and killing anyone who went against them.
From the 60s until today, black people make up 31% of all police killing in the U.S even though they make up one of the least percentage of people living in the U.S at only 13%. You can see now how big of a problem it’s starting to be.
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Subsequently, the tides have seemed to turn. Multiple protests have been starting up in places even outside to U.S to try to speak up on these acts and to try and put an end to police brutality. Places like Hong Kong, who share their own history of police brutality, have been a surprisingly prominent voice on the topic.
In addition to countries outside of the United States, US citizens, of course, have cities here that are playing a big role in the prevention of it. Cities who experience the most racism, which results in more brutality and harm from police, have held their own protests and have gave attention to individual cases of the situation because it’s only the killing that they do, too. Police brutality involves the reports of false imprisonment as well.
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