Essay On Police Brutality

Makenna Tripp

Mr.Mikes

English 2

26 January 2023

Police brutality

Police Brutality shows racism in the police department. Police brutality makes people of minority groups scared of the police. The effect of police brutality on the black community negatively affects the black community. All people feel the effect of police brutality because no matter where you are it happens all around every country has experienced police brutality. They all feel angry, terrified, and cautious. In 2022, more than 1,100 people were killed by police violence, some people say that police officers are just doing their job but, really it's just police brutality. Racial disparity in the police force, Black Americans are 3% more likely to get attacked by police

Police officers tear gas citizens in Minneapolis after they crowded the streets protesting after George Floyd was killed by police officers. Nigerians tear gassed by the police in Nigeria when they were protesting a change for their county. Police officers tear gas citizens since they will get away with it since the government doesn’t do anything about it. They are the one who supplies their resources for them. Not one US state complies with non use of lethal weapons and even if they do use it they rarely face consequences. They can kill people, barely anyone even gets fired for it at most they will and they are transferred to another station but they don't go to jail and they are rarely fired for misuse of a

Even when they have been attacked or shot at they feel they can’t use the police since of the attacks their people have faced from the police. Many Black people are terrified of walking home if they live in “white neighborhoods'' since they will get stopped by officers for going to their house since a lot of white people feel as if they don’t belong there because of their color. They can’t drive without police stopping them. The officers see their color and they pull them out of the car and the police think they are being aggressive since they don’t know what they did and then they end up getting shot at because of the color of their skin. After covid hit Asians faced horrible discrimination they were spit at in stores and they were told to go home to their own country they felt as if they couldn’t go to the police since almost all of the officers are white and they don’t feel safe the law force is impartial since there aren’t many people of minority groups and when there is some of them have quit after the unfair treatment they have faced in the force. The community experiences depression, anxiety since it affects their community after an attack. When someone in their community gets attacked, they feel attacked since they are in the same minority group as them and they feel that something like that could happen to them too. The death of George Floyd