BLM History

Black Lives Matter. Policing in America. Police Brutality. ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 -None of the images are mine unless I specify-

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Intro

The Black Lives Matter Movement has gained a lot of popularity in recent years. Sparking protests and pleads for change, especially originating in Minnesota. Though Black Lives Matter and the Civil Rights Movements have been going on for decades, if not centuries the murder of George Floyd at the hands of the police has prevoked a direly need for change.

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But don’t All Lives Matter?

Link to full video: https://youtu.be/pM-HpZQWKT4 🍄

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Sources

“Racial Profiling and a Reasonable Sense of Inferior Political Status” Journal of Political Philosophy Hosein, Adam Omar Vol. 26 Issue 3, pp. e1–e20, 2018.  🐸

BARKER, CYRIL JOSH. “Brooklyn DA’s Office Denies Justice in Nicholas Heyward Jr. Case.” New York Amsterdam News, vol. 107, no. 47, 17 Nov. 2016, p. 3  🦆

Bearfield, Domonic, et al. “Making Violence Transparent: Ranking Police Departments in Major U.S. Cities to Make Black Lives Matter.” Public Integrity, vol. 23, no. 2, Mar. 2021, pp. 164–80.   🦊

https://ekuonline.eku.edu/blog/police-studies/the-history-of-policing-in-the-united-states-part-1/    🐮

google/youtube         🍄

me    ☂️

info learned from college classes    🐚

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Conclusions

Racism exists. Of that, there is no debate. Yes, form and apparency has changed over the years, but it has ultimately not ceased to exist and maybe never will. A quote from the movie adaptation of Angie Thomas’ The Hate U Give explains it well, “You don’t have to use the N-word or use a firehose on black people to be racist.”  

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What We Know

The foundation of policing in America is inherently racist and has created a subculture of violence targeted at people of color from the beginning. For this to change we need to rebuild a better foundation that involves education and less violent tactics. We need to not only demand justice for black police related deaths but prevent them from happening.  

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Change. Policy

With this education there also needs to be change in policies and police tactics.

->how they handle warrants

->where to shoot & if shooting is necessary at all

->handling mentally ill people

->accountability 

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Change. Education

If ignorance leads to prejudice and education extinguishes prejudice, we need more education in the world and especially the police force.

->teaching police history

->explaining racial profiling and black PRCD rates

->understanding where all of this comes from 

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Question to Ask

What can we do to change the outcome of a lethal practice that has been normalized for so long?

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Police Brutality (Conclusions)

-> The common theme of police related black civilian death has been a lack of accountability and transparency from the police and has been the norm for so long

-> It is only when George Floyd’s murderer got convicted of crime have we began to scratch the surface of justice

-> We need to prevent the killing of POC and not just demand justice for it when it does happen

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Police Brutality (3)

From 13 year old Nicholas Heyward Jr. being shot to death for playing with a toy gun to George Floyd being choked to death for suspicion of using counterfeit money, it never seems to stop.

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Police Brutality (2)

There is a problem of transparency in the police force regarding their use of violence.

2021 data surveying Police Related Civilian Deaths (PRCD)

->26.2% are victims of color

->though only 13.2% of the population are people of color

->POC are disproportionately targeted

(POC are also targeted in non-related police deaths

->effecting 50.1% of people in the POC community) 

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Police Brutality (1)

The police have pattern of unnecessary excessive or lethal use of force.

-> This is a problem for all people but especially Americans of color because they are targeted more by law enforcement

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Racial Police Violence

Police violence is statistically biased.

-> As previously gone over, the political foundation and therefore current policies and standards of the police are built from racism

-> This background attributes to the racist subcultural ideals that are used to justify actions today

Another problem taken up by the Black Lives Matter Movement is police brutality.

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Race Based Biased (Conclusions)

->Because people of color have been historically treated inferior and forced to live in poorer neighborhoods this makes it essentially impossible for them to get out of these poorer neighborhoods

-> Poorer neighborhoods harbor underfunded schools, creating a lacking education that ultimately forfeits viable job opportunities therefore placing them and their kids in poorer neighborhoods, repeating the cycle. 

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Race Based Bias (3)

Because of systemic racism, people of color, black people, are often confined to poorer neighborhoods

-> Systemic racism is the conclusion that because of our capitalistic society and America’s racist foundation and practices it creates a loop of poverty for people of color.

Here’s a small video explaining systemic racism:

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Race Based Bias (2)

-> In poorer neighborhoods, petty crimes- excluding white collar crime and organized crime- are more common than richer neighborhoods

-> Petty crime consists of things like stealing or prostitution which could be the only means of survival for people in poverty.

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Race Based Bias (1)

Some may argue that imprisonment and criminal profiling is not biased because POC do commit more crimes, but this is simply untrue.

-> There is no statistical evidence of committed crimes being racially based, but economically based

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