This is a sociological fact, not a figment of a racist media (or police) imagination. ... The police said Russ grabbed the gun and tried to wrestle it away from the officer, and gun fired. ... A police report said she was shot because the officer thought her cell phone was a gun. ... The NAACP recommends withdrawing federal funds from police departments with high levels of unresolved brutality cases, or police departments that have been slow to react to complaints. The organization also suggests creation of police/civilian review boards to review not only profiling but also stop-and frisk proc...

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Mumia was an aspiring Pennsylvania-based journalist who sought to expose police brutality directed at minority communities and people. ... Mumia, who for financial reasons had to work as a taxi driver at night, subsequently began to be harassed by police officers. Beginning with veiled threats and climaxing beatings, the police clearly expressed their disapproval of Mumia's unveiling of their crimes. The actual scene of the crime occurred one night when Mumia spotted his brother being beaten by the police. ... And though a witness stated having seen another man fleeing the scene, most w...

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Benefits of having white skin are economic privileges, and police protection, instead of police harassment also depending on their financial situation they can choose neighborhoods that are safe and have decent schools. ... White people are not usually in danger of individual acts of discrimination, hate crimes and police brutality at the hands of white people, as well as of institutional practices that kill people due to lack of heath care, lack of police protection and unequal legal prosecution. ...

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Police studies have shown that civil disorder is more common on weekends and after sunset. ... If a member of the public is arrested by police, there is a great chance that crowds may form or there will be an increase in police brutality. ... Police are expected to be subjected to verbal abuse and physical abuse. The crowd can distribute pamphlets mocking the police or encouraging police brutality which is very effective to their cause. ... As well as psychological abuse, police will receive a large amount of physical abuse from a mob. ...

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Historically, there has never been any public outcry against the brutality of battered women. ... Some of them served as a protection against embarrassment, while others were created to protect rescuers from their own discouragement when they were unsuccessful in stopping the brutality. ... Studies of women have shown that most believe that the police would not be of any help. In fact, only about 10% of women in these situations have called the police. ... The police are usually ...

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African Americans are an "at-risk" population. Immigrants, who were forcibly taken from their families in Africa, brought to American, sold and used for manual labor on plantations. Slaves were stripped of their culture and given a new identity and way to live, being inferior to whites, as slaves. ...

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For example, while race relations and inequality have been a dividing issue in our country for a majority of our country's existence, the recent issues of police brutality and Black Lives Matter has been brought to the forefront. ...

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Police brutality used against the marchers dramatized the harsh treatment of blacks in the United States. ... Police opened fire on the protesters and within minutes, 56 people were killed and nearly 200 were injured. ...

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Even when the system tries to be impartially and with the highest regard of justice, critics suggest that the system is deteriorating at all levels, saying that regularly poor and minority Americans has become victims of not only harsher sentencing with extensive incarceration, but from the very first step of police profiling and inadequate legal defense. ...

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When Lipsitz writes about the riots in L.A. after the beating of Rodney King, he states, "Of the nearly 47,000 police brutality cases reported to the federal Department of Justice between 1986 and 1992 only 15,000 were investigated, and only 128 led to prosecution of any kind (Lipsitz 148). ...

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In textbooks, literature, and films alike, the African American struggle to be viewed simply as "human" through the eyes of their white counterparts is portrayed through images of horrible inequality, police brutality, and violations of the United States constitution, which guarantees equal protection of all American citizens under the law. ...

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That piece of legislation was called the Monroe Doctrine, which established the United States as the sole police power for the Western Hemisphere and called for an end to European interference in American affairs. ...

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Imagine you were driving along a desert, and you come across a desperate mother and child dying of thirst and barely strong enough to lift their heads? Would you help them? Sure you would. Now, suppose that family were immigrants trying to enter the United States without proper documents, would that...

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In the last decades of the 20th century, the legal system emphasized racial equality, though that may not be the case with the different trials that have been taken place because of police brutality (Vxpilot). 2. ...

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