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Ashton Gilbert
Miss Cook
Composition
22 February 2017
I surveyed people from 13-80 and these are the questions I asked:
8.Do you think you can forgive someone for causing physical harm towards you?
10. What would you do if you seen a police officer was using excessive force on
someone?
12. Do you think that our society is truly equal when it comes to your skin color?
The survey is still going on so I don't have the results to share, At this point in time. I will
uses the information from them to prove points throughout my essay and demonstrate
Tsiaperas, T. (2017, January 11). Police officers fear more for their safety, see spike in racial
tensions, Pew study says. Dallas Morning News, The (TX). From
About 86 percent of officers say their jobs are harder now because of the protests, and
about 70 percent of Americans believe policing has become more dangerous in the past
five years. This shows how the riots and the way people look at them change when
August 2014 sparked riots, and demonstrators have protested the chokehold death of Eric
Garner in New York, the shooting death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice in Cleveland, and,
most recently, the shooting deaths of Alton Sterling in Louisiana and Philando Castile in
Minnesota. These are also more recent events that have happened after Rodney king. I
will use a lot of information from this article because it has so many statistics that show
what is happening and how it has effect the police world. This will show that this is
effecting how officers think and making them scared to do there job because they will be
B. (2015, June 23). Rodney King. Retrieved February 26, 2017, from
http://www.biography.com/people/rodney-king-9542141#synopsis
It shows who Rodney King is, which he is uses in the next citation. It explain what
happen to him and why. This is an example of police officers abusing their power, AKA
police brutality. This happened in 1991. Rodney died in his swimming pool mysteriously,
but no evidence of foul play. I will use this source as to go more in depth about Rodney
RUNNING HEAD: Police Brutality vs. Safety.
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King. He was an important part about the awareness of racism and police brutality. I will
CHANEY, C., & ROBERTSON, R. V. (2014). "Can We All Get Along?" Blacks' Historical and
Contemporary (In) Justice With Law Enforcement. Western Journal Of Black Studies,
38(2), 108-122.
This is a peer-review journal. This goes on about Rodney King and what the author feels
about
the subject. It says that Rodney changed how people perceived police brutality. It talks
about
the CRT(Critical Race Theory) and CDA(Critical Discourse Analysis). I will use this
review
just like the biography.com, honestly I'm going to combine them to make a whole
paragraph just
over Rodney king and his influence over police and riots. This plays into my topic
perfectly.
Chaney, C., & Robertson, R. (2013). Racism and Police Brutality in America. Journal Of African
This is another peer-review from the same guy talking about Rodney and how he has
Statistic and Reporting Project) Which was created because of Rodney. I will combine
all these Statistic along with my finding to prove that our nation does have a problem but
History.com staff. (2010). Riots erupt in Los Angeles. Retrieved February 26, 2017, from
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/riots-erupt-in-los-angeles
This is the riot that happened after Rodney was put in jail after being severely beaten by
police officers. It happened when the video of the police beating up Rodney had gotten
out. People became furious. It was after one of the police officers was not guilty in all
counts. People went nuts. The three days of chaos killed 55 people, injured almost 2,000,
led to 7,000 arrests, and caused nearly $1 billion in property damage, including the
burnings of nearly 4,000 buildings. This shows how police brutality led to both police
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