Today, one of our biggest problems with racial discrimination comes from the people who are supposed to protect us from such problems; the law system. Today we see many problems with racially influenced police brutality. 50 years ago, my Grandparents were living during a time where the police could not be trusted and committed crimes of racial discrimination. 20 years ago, my parents were growing up during a time when police had a bad stigma of not being able to be trusted and known to create racial discriminating crimes. 20 more years later, the next generation is still living at a time where minority communities feel like they can not trust the police to protect them and do right by the people in their communities. Why have Police continued to allow racial discrimination to occur within their force? Why is it that 60 years later, minority communities are still dealing with unnecessary killings, police brutality, and increasing incarceration rates? Why is it that laws have been passed to assist in increasing the number of incarceration of minorities. Particularly focusing on issues mostly found in minority communities. As long as the authority who is supposed to regulate and protect us from racial discrimination are setting poor examples to the world, there will always be racial discrimination because people are being taught that it is accepted. As long as the word race exist, racial discrimination will always appear. However, when racial division continues to occur and the authorities who are supposed to protect us are committing racial discrimination, then we will continue to see racial discrimination in the United States and around the world.
These are a few videos just to show examples of police brutality and racial discrimination with the law system.
In this particular video which occurred in Compton, CA less then 10 years ago, LA County Sheriff Deputies fatally opened fired on a young Black male. This video was chosen because the video shows how eager and overly anticipative they were to use fatal force. The deputies were so eager to engage in action that after sticking their K9 dog on the young male, they opened fired on the boy so fast that the deputies killed the K9 dog before the dog got a chance to attack the Black male. The Black male of obviously under the influence of a drug, which his girlfriend told the deputies. Even though he was yelling back at the deputies and threatening them, he never once appear to have a weapon or flaunted a weapon. After deputies unloaded a ton of bullets on the Black male and the K9 dog, they left him dying on the porch of the house, and their 1st priority was the obviously dead K9 dog. Sadly, he was killed in front of the mother of his child.
The event to this video happened last year in Oakland when Police fatal shot Oscar Grant while laying helpless face down on the ground. This event caused a major riot in the streets of Oakland.
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The point is not to say that all racial discrimination is caused by law enforcement and that all people in law enforcement are racist. We need law enforcement and should appreciate them for putting their lives on the line to protect us. However, there still is a big issue that needs to be addressed when it comes to racial discrimination and law enforcement. The examples given in the videos prior are examples of incidents that occur in everyday minority communities and across the world. They don't always make the news and get out to the public. I have experienced first hand how a racial discrimination and police brutality incident can be kept quiet within a community quick, and no one really wins the case but the cops. The victims of police brutality end up either dead, in the hospital, or seriously injured in jail with charges against them. The relationships between law and minority communities can be much better.
