"Because of the fear that their sons will be harassed, beaten or killed by police, solely because they are Black, Black parents across the country are warning their teenage sons to take extra precautions to avoid police brutality." ... In Prince George's County, Md., the fear of racial profiling and excessive use of force by police has been particularly high among the African-American community. "In the past several months, county police have shot twelve people, killing five. ... Justice Department, making the Prince George's County Police Department one of only thirteen law enfo...

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In legal retrospect, things also began to change in the Miami Police Department. Since the city's birth, Miami had been strongly opposed to hiring blacks as police officers, as was generally true throughout the southern states. ... The recruitment of John Milledge, Ralph White, Clyde Lee, Ed Kimball, and Moody Hall had taken place under extreme secrecy, since many whites were opposed to blacks on the police force." ... According to a black police officer hired in 1947, not until 1963 could black Miami police officers arrest whites. In March 1945 the assignment of black police officers...

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For example, the big discussion in America right now is the police brutality against African American young men. This recently erupted in Ferguson, Missouri where people put on riots to show their anger against police targeting African American males. The problem is that the African American population is underrepresented in the police force with ninety four percent of them being white while sixty three percent of the town is black (Stewart). ...

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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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Racism affects Bigger's life at home, at the Daltons, and in police custody. ... Wright portrays Bigger's brutality in such gory detail, as this quote shows, that the reader may well feel that he is trying to turn you against him. ...

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Widow Douglas and Miss Watson are also portrayed as piously religious people who profess themselves to be believers in the word of God, yet they see nothing wrong with keeping slaves and the brutality of disconnecting Jim from his family. ...

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In America, the Court ruled that, "segregation laws have been generally, if not universally recognized as within the competency of state legislatures in the exercise of their police power" (853). ... Wells, who wrote The "Anti-Lynching Campaign", had much to say about the brutality being placed among the black race. ...

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When I was first given this assignment, I would have to say that I have never been more uninterested in doing homework in my life. I've never been interested in history of any kind, which would explain my failures to participate in class and so when I first stepped into the Museum of Tolerance I did...

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