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This week the news that hit the headlines sometimes back about black deaths in South Carolina has been brought to rest. South Carolina has forty-seven percent of its population being the black people, but the irony is that eighty percent of people in the police department are white. The killings of unarmed African Americans bring out the memories of some of the atrocities that have been committed against the African American over the past years.
The jury found that the Mr T Slager policeman that had killed the unarmed person has performed the murder and was charged for it. Many across America felt that justice had been done because the video footage jot from the scene of crime shows that he had a case to answer. He defended himself by claiming that he did that for self-defense the claim could not hold waters because the evidence showed to the contrary. The video shows Mr Slager shooting Mr Scot when he was running and was 20 feet away. That proves that by virtue that Mr. Scot was unarmed he posed no danger to Mr. Slager at that distance.
The footage further shows the policeman handcuffing the man after killing him before moving a distance to pick something from the ground of which he returns and drops it next to the lifeless body. It should, however, be noted that it is not an isolated case of the senseless killings of the African Americans. Some of these other events that showed that it was a trend in the past few months includes.
A teenager, Michael Brown was shot and killed by a police officer in Ferguson. The scenario took place after another killing, where Eric Garner an unarmed man selling cigarettes, was choked by a policeman in the area of Staten Island.
The one that spark protests across the nation is the twelve-year-old boy Tamir Rice, who was killed when playing with a pellet gun. Why would such things happen to black people? Why are they being killed by policemen without any reason?
We hope that the decision by the judges in Ferguson will cool the protests that have been continuous in this St. Louis. The irony is that this is a place with a population of over sixty percent of the population being the black people. It is a place that has seen a population rise from 25 percent in 90s to sixty percent in 2010. With the changes in the demography, the area power structure is still in the hands of most white minority. As at the time of browns shooting there was only one black member in the entire council.
No black person was serving on the school board, and many of nearly over ninety percent of the police officers were white. With a population of 21000 that would not be acceptable. With such kind of unbalanced spread of power, it was likely that the blacks were more likely to be arrested, stopped and given harsher sentences than their white counterparts for the same crimes.
Finally, we want to believe the ruling settled the racist tendencies one and for all in this region. The protests have shaped the municipal politics because some of these candidates have joined the cause.
The jury found that the Mr T Slager policeman that had killed the unarmed person has performed the murder and was charged for it. Many across America felt that justice had been done because the video footage jot from the scene of crime shows that he had a case to answer. He defended himself by claiming that he did that for self-defense the claim could not hold waters because the evidence showed to the contrary. The video shows Mr Slager shooting Mr Scot when he was running and was 20 feet away. That proves that by virtue that Mr. Scot was unarmed he posed no danger to Mr. Slager at that distance.
The footage further shows the policeman handcuffing the man after killing him before moving a distance to pick something from the ground of which he returns and drops it next to the lifeless body. It should, however, be noted that it is not an isolated case of the senseless killings of the African Americans. Some of these other events that showed that it was a trend in the past few months includes.
A teenager, Michael Brown was shot and killed by a police officer in Ferguson. The scenario took place after another killing, where Eric Garner an unarmed man selling cigarettes, was choked by a policeman in the area of Staten Island.
The one that spark protests across the nation is the twelve-year-old boy Tamir Rice, who was killed when playing with a pellet gun. Why would such things happen to black people? Why are they being killed by policemen without any reason?
We hope that the decision by the judges in Ferguson will cool the protests that have been continuous in this St. Louis. The irony is that this is a place with a population of over sixty percent of the population being the black people. It is a place that has seen a population rise from 25 percent in 90s to sixty percent in 2010. With the changes in the demography, the area power structure is still in the hands of most white minority. As at the time of browns shooting there was only one black member in the entire council.
No black person was serving on the school board, and many of nearly over ninety percent of the police officers were white. With a population of 21000 that would not be acceptable. With such kind of unbalanced spread of power, it was likely that the blacks were more likely to be arrested, stopped and given harsher sentences than their white counterparts for the same crimes.
Finally, we want to believe the ruling settled the racist tendencies one and for all in this region. The protests have shaped the municipal politics because some of these candidates have joined the cause.
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