Thread: What is police brutality, systemic racism, how it's gotten worse since 2008, negatively affects African Americans lives, and why it's not a coincidence. In other words this thread is why #BlackLivesMatter

This thread is based off a paper I did thorough research on for an entire semester. I'm breaking it down to fit the word count on here so I'm sorry if this thread gets long. Citations/Sources will be at the end.

Police misconduct & corruption is the abuse of police brutality. The term refers to a range of criminal violations of police department rules & regulations. Ex. False arrest, falsification of evidence, witness tampering and racial profiling.

Police brutality is the use of any force that is more than the necessary amount a police officer is allowed to use ESPECIALLY on someone who doesn't pose a threat/unarmed. It's been around for decades and they're getting away with it.

It is protocol for an officer to ask questions first. If posed with a threat an officer is then granted authorization to use a limited amount of force to get them to stand down. We've seen the complete opposite being done.

March 3, 1991, Rodney King survives a brutal beating by the LAPD for fleeing evading California State Route 210. After the video came out LA residents realized recording evidence will support their claim that the police have been abusing their power.

In 2018, it was released that "The Civil Rights Division of the DOJ can file lawsuits against local police departments if there's evidence showing a recurrent pattern of violating people's rights through excessive force,"

Yet four years after, Daniel Pantaleo, NYPD officer faces no big consequences for the deadly force against late Eric Garner in 2014. No jail time or even charged for murder.

Systematic racism is a form of racism expressed in every social & political institution of modern society.

A lot of Americans will claim that just because we had a black president (Barack Obama not Bill Clinton) that we've made progress as a country. If only they were true. Racial prejudice actually got worse since Obama's presidency.

About 51% of Americans express explicit anti-black attitudes since 2008. When measured by an implicit racial attitude the number went from 51% to 56%. Out of that percentage, one of them is bound to be a police officer out in the field right now.

Here's how police brutality, misconduct, and corruption has traumatically affected the African American youth of this generation.

Trauma occurs when an individual has an experience that threatens their life or bodily integrity, which overwhelms their ability to cope by creating feelings of hopelessness or intense fear.

June 19, 2018, Antwon Rose Jr. was shot in the back by officer Michael Rosfeld. Rosfeld was hired only a month before and was sworn in hours before he took Rose Jr.'s life for fleeing a car that was stopped by the police.

Shortly after the incident, Boston University's School of Health & University of Pennsylvania released a study that found a high rate of unarmed African Americans being killed by police officers has caused depression, stress, etc.

It can even affect those who have no direct connection to those who have died. The spillover effects could also be a result of heightened perceptions of threat and vulnerability, lack of fairness, lower social status, lower beliefs about ones own worth, activation or prior-

traumas, and identification with the deceased.

Police violence impacts the heart and social development of African Americans boys more than it would girls. This doesn't mean young African American girls don't have problems with police. Black woman are about 1.4 times as likely to be killed by police as white woman.

Many young African American boys believe they are perceived as a threat which is why they live in fear of the police. This causes them to be more cautious than one should be to survive. They see it in the news, social media, movies, history, etc.

They are even told by their parents! In African American households "The Talk" is more than about sex. It's about how to interact with the police to avoid being harmed.

There is no coincidence when an unarmed African American dies at the hand of the police. Young black men are more likely to die by the hands of police officers than win the lottery. They're 2.5 times more likely to die during an encounter with police than their white peers.

Police officers are more likely to shoot black people than their white or other minority peers. During training video game simulations they are quicker to shoot black figures or suspects which could lead to possible racial bias.

There are no good official data on confirmed deaths a year due to tampering but for argument sake the Washington post police shooting database says 1,004 people were killed by the police in 2019.

37% white 23% black 16% 4% other 20% unknown. It's this kind of static's that leads people to believe the media is making it look like a genocide.

Unfortunately, there was no shot because they're race button to differentiate but you get the point.