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Claudia Bityeki
March 14, 2015
Ms. Brandon
Pd.3
Social Injustices
How would you feel driving down the road, going the speed limit and all of a sudden you see flashing lights behind you, so you pull over like the good citizen that you are. Just in Missouri alone black drivers are 72% more likely to get pulled over by police. People are being judged and racially profiled every day. This leads up to unjustified shootings and the wrongful deaths of innocent victims. Not only has this happened in Ferguson but it happens in states across the country and even other countries across the world. This issue goes all the way back to the slave trade in the 16th century. But not all is lost there are ways to combat this.
These cases aren’t in the news as often as they happen. Just recently in Hebron Kentucky a woman was shot through her car window by a sheriff deputy she had no gun but the officer claimed that “he feared for his life”. This woman’s name was April Ramsey, she died before her mother could get to the hospital. “Critics sometimes see law enforcement agencies as reluctant to go after their own members” this means that police officers could be inclined to stay quiet about the actions of their coworkers as an act of loyalty, but this begs the question how often does this apply to situations such as Trayvon Martin’s or Michael Brown’s?
This issue goes as far back as 1865 when the Reconstruction Era began in the south directly after the civil war. “Due to the bickering in Washington, problems starting arising in the South involving discrimination against liberated blacks. The enactment of Black Codes by newly formed Southern regimes was hurting the black emancipation movement.” This means that even though southern African-Americans were liberated they still did not have the same rights as their white counterparts. “For instance, many states required blacks to sign yearly labor contracts; if they refused, they risked being arrested as vagrants and fined or forced into unpaid labor.” Since African- Americans had less rights than whites the police could do whatever they wanted because there were no laws to protect them and even if there were laws they would still be seen as lesser. More recently in 1991 there was man by the name of Rodney King he was beaten severely by LAPD “after jury trial in 1992 all were acquitted”. His beating was “caught on video”, this sparked violent protests
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