The state of South Carolina has followed the nation’s trend of increasing police brutality against minority groups. African Americans are the most targeted minority for police brutality. The first official slave patrol was formed in South Carolina and was a prelude to the modern police department. The fact that modern police departments has its roots in what was a racist practice of monitoring and beating African American slaves into submission or preventing the escape of slaves from their white owners it is not a stretch for a modern South Carolinian police department to have retained a racist attitude.
There have been several instances of law enforcement officers being accused and convicted for abusing their power. In April 2013 two cops
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Officer Michael Slager did use deadly force, but it was not necessary. Walter Scott was fleeing, however, he did not possess a weapon and was not facing the officer or anybody else.
According to the video taken by a bystander, Scott never had the officer’s stun gun and was shot at nearly eight times before he finally fell to the ground dead. Officer Michael Slager reported on his radio minutes after the shooting, Shots fired in the subject is down. He took my taser. The video shows that Scott did not have swagger stun gun, but was staged just prior to being and being shot at. After shooting Scott down, Officer Sager is shown picking something up from the ground and dropping it down next to Scotts body.
Falsified police reports are yet another sign of police brutality and subsequent guilt. Unfortunately the officer’s report was not the only one falsified. A second policeman reports giving Walter Scott CPR and First Aid. This report is contradicted by the video. None of the officers are shown to have administered first aid or CPR to Scott at
A Florida police officer and his friend approached the car on a routine checkpoint. The police officers were shot with Jacobs gun. Rhodes and Tafero took off in the police vehicle and Jacobs followed. Police later found the gun used to kill the officer and his friend in Tafero’s waistband. This was at roadblock after the individuals had kidnapped another man and stealing his car at a roadblock.
In the past few days another unarmed black male was shot and killed by a white officer. His name was Terrance Crutcher. Betty Shelby, the white officer identified by police as the one who shot Crutcher, was not the only officer to draw a weapon on him. With three officers standing in a line behind Terence Crutcher and at least one more officer standing several feet behind them, the video shows, his body falls to the pavement. The officer 's attorney says she was afraid Crutcher was reaching for a weapon when she opened fire.
Melvin Santiago of the Jersey City Jersey Police Department was not simply shot in the line of duty, he was viciously ambushed by a man determined be a cop killer and, possibly, to commit suicide by cop (Kulbarsh, 2015). The attacker, Lawrence Campbell, age 27, assaulted an armed security guard inside the Walgreens pharmacy, took the guards pistol, told witnesses he was going to be famous (New Jersey police officer shot, 2014). Campbell waited in the parking lot for the first cruiser to arrive and opened fire on officer Santiago as he stepped out of his vehicle. Thirteen shots were fired, and Santiago was struck in the head. As the shooting was happening, other officers arrived and began firing at Campbell from their vehicles.
He came back to the jail and gave himself up. At the time the wound did not appear serious but blood poisoning set in and death followed. Coseboom and Saunders told authorities Millard had fired recklessly and should be fired. A jury found the shot fired by the officer was in the line of duty and no blame
Additional officers arrived to back up Officer Connor. Graham was handcuffed by one of the back up officers and carried back to the vehicle. Graham regained consciousness and asked the officers to check his wallet for a diabetic decal, one of the officers told him to "shut up" and shoved his face down against the hood of the car. Four officers grabbed Graham and put him head first into the police car. During the incident Graham suffered a broken foot, cuts on his wrists, a bruised forehead, an injured shoulder; and claims to have developed a loud ringing in his right
In video evidence, Yatim was on the ground and already bleeding to death, shooting 6 more bullets at a person who is literally helpless and can’t do anything is very unprofessional for a police
He first told the police that he fired the gun blindly while
“King was caught by the Los Angeles police after a high-speed chase on March 3, 1991”. “King, who was intoxicated, had been caught speeding and initially tried to evade the police. When he finally pulled over and exited his car, multiple LAPD units and a helicopter were pursuing him. Taken by bystander George Holliday from across the street, the footage shows four officers tazing, kicking, and hitting King with their batons upwards of 53 times… the bruises, broken leg, and the scar from the stun gun, which jolted him with 50,000 bolt shocks… The officers involved, Laurence Powell, Timothy Wind, Theodore Briseno and Stacey Koon, were put
In today’s modern society, many feel that is okay for a police officer can kill a man armed with a harmful weapon at any cost. On many news channels, there are various amounts of articles and reports about a police officer committing this act. Even though a police officer has the right to take action against an armed man, this could be argued in many circumstances. In the 2013, Sammy Yatim was a young adult with a mental illness and was armed with a weapon on a streetcar in Toronto. Yatim was confronted by Const.
trying to get the same respect as any other white person around that would come along. In an attempt for more racial equality they were beaten and harassed. (History.com) Rodney King was an African American male who had gotten pulled over. He was pulled over for speeding and in a big car chase. At the end of the chase he had beaten brutally by officers.
Racial tension between the police and the Americans citizens, especially the minority is something that has long existed. The racist actions have mainly been perpetrated by the white police against the African-Americans. African-Americans across the various states in the US have endured the racial injustices at the hands of the white police since the days of Jim Crow. Racial tension between the police and the citizens, especially the African-American still continue. The state of North Carolina has in the recent years been the hotbed of all issues related to the racial tension.
Losing someone who is close to you is one of the worst things that can happen to you. A state of depression rolls over you like a dark cloud rolling over the sky on a sunny day. All of these members of his family are hurt. There is nothing the Police department can do to fix it. Officer Wilson, the officer who shot Michael Brown said that he did this in his
An officer in Delaware responding to a call from Jeremy McDole about his attempt in shooting himself the officer fatally shot the wheelchair-bound man and argued that McDole was armed. In the video tape of McDole and the officer McDole didn’t appear to be armed. Another person was fatally shot by an officer in Maryland. The officer was responding to reports of Keith McLeod trying to use fake prescriptions. The officer argued that McLeod was reaching around his back to pull out a gun.
The incident occurred in a parking lot where the police were acting out a warrant for another person. Officer Vinson said that “he saw Scott rolling a marijuana joint and holding a gun, and fired at him out of concern for public safety.” Because the officers were wearing body cameras Officer Vinson was not charged. The Mecklenburg County District Attorney Andrew Murray says “It is my opinion that Officer Vinson acted lawfully when he shot Mr. Scott," Mecklenburg County District Attorney Andrew Murray said at a news conference. " He acted lawfully."
We want to fight the power, fight the police but unless we are ready to go to war against the police we cannot win. The police, time and time again has shown us that they will not hesitate to pull that trigger. Michael Slager killed Walter Scott as he ran away from him but he grew up during a time when rappers like Dre gave the seal of approval and he too wanted to put a nigga on his back. But why did he pull the trigger? It