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Surname 1 Name Professor Course Date The documentary; "Two Black Men a Week." The documentary narrates a series of black killings and the survivors' pain. According to the documentary, most crimes are committed by white people, yet black people are at a higher risk of dying after being shot by the police. A young black man has a higher chance of being killed by a policeman than being involved in a road accident. Police killed more than 100 unarmed blacks in 2014, making it equivalent to two (2) blacks killings per week. In 2014, a total of 1175 people were killed by police officers, and out of them, 200 were not armed, and most of them were afro Americans. Dehumanization and violence against African-Americans are still widespread in the United States, as seen by the wrongful killing of George Floyd and much other public and private incidents. However, from "Two Black Men a Week" documentary, it is evident that several issues involved with high profile killing of blacks and even the protest movements are still present in our today's society. The issues include racial profiling, police brutality, and victim injustice Racial Profiling Leon Ford, a survivor of police shootings, was stopped by police and asked to provide all the necessary documents in the documentary. When police ran names searched, they entered L. Ford, which displayed a warrant of arrest for Lament Ford, who the same age as Leon and wanted drug was trafficking. The police prejudged that Leon Ford was the suspect because he was black. The policeman fired Leon five bullets to conclude that Leon was armed (Real Stories,

Surname 2 23:00-26:00). In another case from the documentary (Real Stories, 41:00-42:43), as some police are taught to fight racial bias, a white woman was used as a suspect. Still, the police allowed her to go in the name of emergency, and she was armed, but when they used a black, one of the black police officers said that blacks are always seen to have guns (their perception), but in the real sense, the man had no weapon. In the current society, blacks and whites have vastly diverse perceptions of police interactions. According to Ryan and Johnson, only 22% of blacks say they have “incredible" in the police to win the trust of the individuals they serve. Whites are considerably more likely than blacks to depict their associations with the police as "great." Criminals are singled out solely based on their ethnicity, color, religion, or national origin, a practice known as racial profiling. As with the lawman's photo, criminals attempt to build a resemblance based on features they think to be associated with illegal behavior. For example, minor traffic offenses are labeled by their race, and walkers are identified based on their race to check for unlawful materials (Harris). Race profiling was not first used by police in the late twentieth century as is often thought. Slave patrols in the American Antebellum South established it as a historical fact for African Americans even before organized police units in the United States. Police brutality In the documentary, there is a series of arrests that use extreme force resulting in death in some cases. Eric Garner was wrestled to the ground by a police officer on the basis that he was selling illegal cigarettes. He was held in a choking grip, fighting for his life; "I can't breathe," where he eventually died. In Oklahoma, Eric Harris is being chased by police, and when they tackle him down, they fire a bullet in his back (Real Stories, 1:32-4:25). In Ferguson, Missouri, Michael Brown, aged 18, was shot by a police officer and killed. The officer was responding to

Surname 3 claims that Brown had stolen a box of cigars (Real Stories, 5:20-6:00). In a well-known case, George Floyd kicked the bucket in the wake of being limited by cops, one of whom had his knee squeezed over Mr. Floyd's neck for over nine minutes. He asked that he was unable to breathe until his passing. African Americans have been the overwhelming majority of victims of police brutality in the United States, despite the wide range of ethnicities who are at risk. Most experts agree that the disproportionate number of African Americans killed due to police brutality may be attributed to the anti-Black bias prevalent among law enforcement organizations with a mostly white staff. Similar positions have impacted police ferocity against other historically excluded populations. Race riots were common in metropolitan areas of the United States in the 1960s, and police brutality was a major factor in many of these riots. In Miami's Liberty City neighborhood in 1980, an unarmed African American man was shot and killed by police (Peeples). A total of 1,000 persons were detained, and more than $100 million in property damage was caused over the course of three days. As a result of Los Angeles police officers assaulting and acquitting Rodney King, the 1992 Los Angeles Riots, the deadliest racial riots in American history, were sparked twelve years later by this incident (Peeples). An estimated $1 billion in property damage was caused over the course of six days, with more than 50 persons dead (Peeples). The killing of Michael Brown sparked violence in the city. Following the police-involved killings of Freddie Gray in Baltimore and George Floyd in Minneapolis (Peeples), there were more riots and nonviolent marches for both African-American men.

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Surname 4 Victim’s injustice According to the documentary, the police who shot Leon Ford was not prosecuted. He even came by his Aunt's house to look into an issue the family had raised. His Aunt was surprised to see him walking freely, and he still works at the Pittsburg police department. Leon sued the police department, but the charges were dropped (Real Stories, 26:25-27:14). A deadly police shooting occurs every year in the United States, while the arrest rate is seldom more than 1%. Shootings may be justifiable in some instances. In contrast, the number of police officers who have been convicted "seems extraordinarily minimal to me. More than half of the deadly shootings are unjustified, in my view. Only 44 of the 139 cops were convicted of misconduct, and 42 cases are still pending (Lopez). Convictions were obtained on various minor charges: In the last decade, only seven officials have been sentenced for homicide in police shootings, with punishments going from 81 months to life sentence in jail for each. The excess 37 were indicted on wrongdoings going from murder to true unfortunate behavior, in certain occurrences getting no prison time by any means. Up to now, the low percentage of charges and convictions is due to a variety of societal and legal issues. Under societal pressure, cops deliberately defend one another, making it more difficult to examine a deadly police shot as unlawful conduct at practically every stage. Prosecutors suffer conflicts of interest when they pursue charges against officers with whom they work closely. Even under challenging situations, the public is suspicious of police officers' decisions. And the law provides cops with a lot of leeways when it comes to using force.

Surname 5 Work Cited (Annotated Bibliography) Harris, David A. "Racial Profiling: Past, Present, and Future?." Criminal Justice 34 (2020). This peer-reviewed article will help me to discuss the issue of racial profiling by analyzing the past events and well as the current and future outcomes. More than two decades ago, the first measure to combat racial profiling in Congress was introduced in 1997. More than half of the states have enacted anti-profiling laws, and many police agencies have instituted anti- profiling practices since then. A lot has been learned about racial profiling in the last two decades. Despite widespread denials, the facts show that racial profiling has severe flaws and has a significant negative impact on society. Despite this, racial profiling remains a problem in the United States. Law enforcement agencies have used it to battle a wide range of issues, including terrorism and illegal immigration, since it was first used to track drug couriers on interstate highways and airports. Racial profiling's history and many attempts to combat it are examined in this article, as is the extensive evidence that it fails to protect the public while eroding public trust in police. It ends with proposals for improving efforts to curb profiling. Lavalley, Ryan, and Khalilah Robinson Johnson. "Occupation, injustice, and anti-Black racism in the United States of America." Journal of Occupational Science (2020). This peer-reviewed article has helped me navigate alongside the issue of racism and understand its influence. Dehumanization and violence against African-Americans are still widespread in the United States, as seen by the wrongful killing of George Floyd and much other public and private incidents. Many people in the United States believe that higher crime rates are directly tied to the presence of a more significant proportion of people of color; however, this is not the case. Instead, unemployment is a much better indicator of criminal activity. Even today, it is typical for African-Americans seeking work to face racial prejudice. These are systemic

Surname 6 problems. The displacement of Black neighborhoods for White real estate requirements is a recurrent occurrence. Black kids are more likely to be punished for minor violations than their white counterparts, which contributes to a school-to-prison pipeline. Autism spectrum illnesses are diagnosed and treated incorrectly in disproportionate numbers among African-Americans, and breast cancer survival rates are poorer among African-Americans than those of their white contemporaries. As a result of Trump's victory in the 2016 US presidential election, anti- immigration and xenophobic attitude has been further exacerbated by the rise of white nationalist groups. Racism is a public health emergency in the United States. Lopez, German. "Police Officers Are Prosecuted For Murder In Less Than 2 Percent Of Fatal Shootings". Vox , 2021, https://www.vox.com/21497089/derek-chauvin-george- floyd-trial-police-prosecutions-black-lives-matter . This accredited news-based article shows the current status of police prosecution for their crimes of fatal killings. I will use the information to discuss the issue of shooting victims' injustice. Police departments and prosecutor's offices need to do a better job of holding cops accountable. For the judicial system to do more to hold police officers responsible will be difficult, if not impossible if there is no culture of accountability in these areas. To this day, no one has a clear idea of how to go about achieving this goal. Progressive prosecutors have been elected recently, but there have been no significant changes throughout the country, and it is too early to predict whether that will change. According to this web-based article, this is something that has a promised end; we have a long way to go to stop this.

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Surname 7 Peeples, Lynne. "What the data say about police brutality and racial bias—and which reforms might work." (2020). The peer-reviewed article provides a timeline of events and protests concerning police brutality and racial bias. The timeline has helped me to discuss the issue of police brutality and the evidence that our society is still facing. According to the author, dismissing a police officer in the United States is notoriously tough to implement. Officers covered by union contracts have been shown to engage in more misconduct. In many places, police enforcement officials have a bill of freedoms that safeguards them from investigations into their wrongdoings. "State regulation and association get that offer either damaged or unduly defensive cycles that asylum officials from satisfactory obligation should be examined closely. Real Stories. "When Cops Kill: Two Black Men A Week." Youtube.Com , 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAyXZEfP1Ts . This was my primary source for the assignment. Posted by the "Real Stories" channel, this is a police brutality documentary video, which covers a series of black killings events as well as protests. It has helped me develop the main issues experience even today in our society—there is evidence of racial profiling, injustice, and police brutality.

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