Ethos

How well do you build credibility, trust, and like ability with a wide audience? Answer: I think my credibility was on point for my essay and was on point with every topic that I have used. Building trust with the audience was a very easy thing that I was able to do and it was I was able to connect.

Do you cite and quote your sources appropriately? Answer: Yes, I was able to cite and quote my sources appropriately.

Do you introduce their credibility before citing evidence and claims from them? Answer: I was able to introduce before I cited the evidence and claims.

Are all of your sources credible? Answer: Most of my sources are credible sources.

Is the essay mostly your own conclusions drawn from your experience and research (vs. a summary of what you’ve read or too much quoting from other authors without providing your own informed and reasoned opinion)? Answer: most of my conclusion for my essay are based on facts and real stories that has occurred with the issue, and has the main conclusion for all of the evidence.

Logos

How well does your message appeal to logic, reason, and (plenty of) evidence and support? Answer: My message appeals to all of these because of the amount of evidence and sources that I have for the issue.

Do you avoid fallacies and contradictions? Answer: I did avoid all of the fallacies or my topic due to me thinking that there is no need to have any for my essay, expect for maybe one or two.

Pathos

How well do you appeal to your audience’s emotions in an ethical way? Answer: Appealing to the audience emotions is one of the main thing to have a connection with due to the fact the the topic of police brutality has a lot of emotions involved, I connected well.

How well do you inspire your audiences to take positive action for the well-being of the broader community? Answer: I think I did pretty well with that because of the issue that I have done really means a lot to me due to having family members being a victim to the issue and I feel like the issue needs to be known and to speak to people about it, who is not aware of the issue and how they can make a difference by using there voice to spread the message.

Do you show empathy and respect for your audiences? Answer: I show a lot of empathy and respect towards the audiences, and it does not matter to me if they agree or disagree with my topic.

Deja Woolard

Janel Spencer

WRT 101S

December 10, 2019

Police Brutality Against African Americans

Police Brutality has been around ever since the 1950’s and has been a way to punish and hurt African Americans in a discriminating way by police, and 50 years later, the issue still remains and continues to affect so many communities. “Black men and boys face the highest risk of being killed by police–at a rate of 96 out of 100,000 deaths. By comparison, white men and boys face a lower rate of 39 per 100,000 deaths, despite being a bigger portion of the U.S. population. Overall, men faced a rate of 52 per 100,000 deaths” (Santhanam). Law enforcement officers who commit police brutality crimes need to be held more accountable for their actions so that the number of deaths and violence by police against African Americans will decrease.  

“In the 2010s, several communities held protests in response to incidents in which the victim was killed and the officers involved faced minimal consequences” (“Police Brutality”). Law enforcement can use any kind of unnecessary force such as a baton, gun, taser, and sometimes their fist when doing so, and even though police brutality can affect anybody, and any person of color, African Americans have been treated the worst of it, to where it has already gotten to the point to where we are used to it by now. This issue doesn’t have to just be a physical act, but it can also be verbal abuse, intimidation, sexual abuse, and also false arrest, and to have most of the law enforcement get away with this issue causes a bigger issue in the community, while also being a form of injustice. Based on the article of police brutality by Gale Opposing viewpoints, brutality has been starting to become more of an issue since the early 2010’s (“Police Brutality”) which has also caused more protests about it that evolved into a national movement calling for reforms in law enforcement tactics and training (“Police Brutality”).  The activist organization “Black Lives Matter” launched police violent projects back in April of 2015 which have been used to track down any kind of violence and racial disparities based on the particular county of law enforcement (“Police Brutality”). Unfortunately, there have been many victims who were involved in this issue like Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Philando Castile, Alton Sterling, and many more. The most tragic stories about police brutality were the shooting of Alton Sterling and the death of Eric Garner.

On July 6th, 2016, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Alton Sterling was approached by two police officers who were told that Sterling had a gun. The owner of the store did mention that Sterling was not bothering anybody, but was at the front of the store selling DVDs. During the beginning and end of this, both of the police officers cursed and used anger and force on Sterling and automatically pulled a gun on him. Seconds later both police officers attacked Sterling while also wrestling with him on the ground due to both police officers knowing that Sterling had a gun, but never used the correct procedures to remove it from Sterling’s possession. Sterling, who was defenseless while wrestling both officers, was shot multiple times and left in a puddle of blood. Baton Rouge Police Officer Murphy Paul states,”Baton Rouge, we are sorry.” “We’re sorry for our failure not to discipline an officer who demonstrated unprofessional behavior and violated our code of conduct consistently, escalating incidents. We’re sorry, Baton Rouge” (Mettler).  Justice was never served for Alton Sterling, and police officers till this day, are still not being held accountable for their actions.

In 2014, Eric Garner was approached by the NYPD in regards to allegedly selling loose cigarettes illegally on Staten Island, but Garner claimed that he was not illegally selling anything and was breaking up a fight that had happened and was documented and there was a recording of a separate video as evidence (“Justice for Eric Garner? Not even close”). During the arrest, Garner was tackled down by five NYPD officers, while one of them, officer Daniel Pantaleo, applied a fatal chokehold on Garner, while Garner’s final words were, “I can’t breathe.” He was pronounced dead at the hospital (“Justice for Eric Garner? Not even close”). Before the altercation, Garner had not done anything wrong and did not show any resisting (“Justice for Eric Garner? Not even close”).

“Recent months have seen intensive investigations from BuzzFeed, the Los Angeles Times, the Miami Herald, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the Tampa Bay Times and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, among others. Several Post reporters, myself included, spent 2017 investigating what happens to ‘bad apple’ police officers after they are fired. As it turns out, they often end up right back on the job” (Lowery). Even though not all police officers are bad, there are a small percentage of them who actually are, making the entire law enforcement of the United States look bad, which causes a lot of friction in many communities, especially for the communities that deal with police brutality on a daily basis. Just as many law enforcement officers get away with police brutality, it took five years to finally get justice for police brutality victim, Eric Garner. “Today, we have finally seen justice done,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said after his police commissioner James P. O’Neill announced at a news conference that he was terminating Pantaleo (“Justice for Eric Garner? Not even close”). 

When it comes to law enforcement not being held accountable for committing acts of police brutality, justice is never fully served. You can fire or suspend an officer for committing police brutality on a citizen, and the law enforcement seems to be okay with that. Based on the article from the Washington Post, even though Officer “Pantaleo may still be dismissed from the New York Police Department in the coming weeks, the bigger question is whether justice and accountability can be found in the legal and administrative decisions of prosecutors and police” . The Washington Post also states that “Garner’s death, like the deaths of many others at the hands of police, was not a tragic accident. Instead, it was a reflection of how we, as a nation, have chosen to protect white lives — and increasingly ‘blue’ ones — at the expense of black ones. The laws allowing maximum discretion to use force are working as they were intended, and they reflect decades of rejecting alternative policy visions of policing that would have done far more to achieve racial justice” (The Washington Post). Even though there has always been a huge bias with a use of force by law enforcement, race does have a huge factor in regards to the issue and it does not matter what color the law enforcement officer is and it is based on the “blue code.” The Washington Post also explains that “surprisingly, a century ago, officials blamed much of the problem on implicit bias. ‘We recognize that these practices and tendencies are,’ they explained, ‘in a large degree the unconscious results of traditional race prejudice.’ They recommended all criminal justice agencies must ‘deal fairly (and without discrimination) with all persons charged with crime.’”  

Officers have had charges against them dropped or reduced, while others were not charged at all. After five years of disagreement on how to move forward with the Eric Garner case, for example, Attorney General William Barr ordered that the DOJ’s investigation into Pantaleo’s use of force end in July 2019 (“Black Lives Matter”). 

We as a nation need to be more aware about this issue that is continuing to happen, and a way to have this be solved is to increase the accountability placed on law enforcement. Every law enforcement officer needs to have a no tolerance rule on officers committing police brutality in order for this issue to decrease. The consequences that should be enforced are serving jail time for the crime and to be put on trial for the incident. As for the communities such as Chicago, IL, Brooklyn New York, Detroit, MI, Atlanta, Georgia, and many other cities that are affected by police brutality, the more our voices are heard, the more our message will continue to spread. We need to look out for one another, no matter what race and learn the difference between right and wrong. Even though police brutality will not be fully resolved, we can start off with looking out for one another. Will justice ever be served? It is only a matter of time. Black lives don’t just matter, but all lives matter. In conclusion, I encourage you to be aware of what is going on in all of our communities, and to pass this information along to others who are unaware about this national issue, and for those who have been victims of police brutality, be strong and also share your story. 

Works Cited

“Black Lives Matter.” Gale Opposing Viewpoints Online Collection, Gale, 2019. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/RMBGVS336742654/OVIC?u=pima_main&sid=OVIC&xid=a9781ef1. Accessed 26 Nov. 2019.

“Fired NYPD officer accused of choking Eric Garner files lawsuit against NYC.” CNN Wire, 24 Oct. 2019, p. NA. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A603658792/OVIC?u=pima_main&sid=OVIC&xid=c54be63c. Accessed 17 Nov. 2019.

“Justice for Eric Garner? Not even close.” CNN Wire, 19 Aug. 2019. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A596864719/OVIC?u=pima_main&sid=OVIC&xid=0b3290d0. Accessed 17 Nov. 2019.

Lowery, Wesley. “Police are still killing black people. Why isn’t it news anymore?” Washingtonpost.com, 12 Mar. 2018. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A530900300/OVIC?u=pima_main&sid=OVIC&xid=6c186dd7. Accessed 17 Nov. 2019. 

“Police Brutality.” Gale Opposing Viewpoints Online Collection, Gale, 2019. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/EMNQRZ438811059/OVIC?u=pima_main&sid=OVIC&xid=33ab10ce. Accessed 4 Dec. 2019. 

Mettler, Katie. “Ex-police officer who killed Alton Sterling is allowed to undo his firing and resign instead.” Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2019. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A595293251/OVIC?u=pima_main&sid=OVIC&xid=c1b6a19a. Accessed 7 Dec. 2019.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/after-ferguson-black-men-and-boys-still-face-the-highest-risk-of-being-killed-by-police. Accessed 2 Dec. 2019.

Santhanam, Laura. “ After Ferguson, black men still face the highest risk of being killed by police.” PBS NewsHour, 9th August, 2019.Muhammad, Khalil Gibran. “Why police accountability remains out of reach.”   Washingtonpost.com, 26 July 2019. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A594647478/OVIC?u=pima_main&sid=OVIC&xid=570a0ff0. Accessed 26 Nov. 2019.

Claims and Evidence for Essay #3

Claims: 1. The law enforcement makes that act of policy brutality as a form of a bias and a way to punish African American.

2. Police Officers who commit police brutality are never held accountable for there actions.

3. Police Brutality still exist and it is something that will not go away if we can do something about it.

Evidence: 1. After five years of disagreement on how to move forward with the Eric Garner case, for example, Attorney General William Barr ordered that the DOJ’s investigation into Pantaleo’s use of force end in July 2019, which was stated in the Washington post.

2. Law enforcement can use any kind of unnecessary force such as a baton, gun, taser, and sometimes their fist when doing so, and even though police brutality can affect anybody, and any person of color, African Americans have been treated the worst of it to where it has already gotten to the point to where we are used to it by now.

Deja Woolard

Janel Spencer

WRT 101S

November 28th, 2019

Police Brutality Against African Americans

Police Brutality has been around ever since the 1950’s and has been a way to punish and hurt African Americans in a discriminating way by police, and 50 years later, the issue still remains, and continuing to affect so many communities. Black men and boys face the highest risk of being killed by police–at a rate of 96 out of 100,000 deaths. By comparison, white men and boys face a lower rate of 39 per 100,000 deaths, despite being a bigger portion of the U.S. population. Overall, men faced a rate of 52 per 100,000 deaths (Santhanam, L), and law enforcement officers who commit the police brutality crime, needs to be held more accountable for their actions.  

In the 2010s, several communities held protests in response to incidents in which the victim was killed and the officers involved faced minimal consequences (Gale). Law enforcement can use any kind of unnecessary force such as a baton, gun, taser, and sometimes their fist when doing so, and even though police brutality can affect anybody, and any person of color, African Americans have been treated the worst of it to where it has already gotten to the point to where we are used to it by now. 

This issue doesn’t have to just be a physical act, but it can also be verbal abuse, intimidation, sexual abuse, and also false arrest, and to have most of the law enforcement get way with this issue, causes a bigger issue in the community, while also a form of injustice. Police Brutality has been starting to become more of an issue since the early 2010’s (Gale), and is also causing more protestings about it that evolved into a national movement calling for reforms in law enforcement tactics and training (gale). Many activist organizations, such as “Black Lives Matter,” has launched many police violent projects back in April of 2015, and has been used to track down any kind of violence and racial disparities based on the particular country of law enforcement (gale). Unformaylet, there have been many victims who were involved in this issue like Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Philando Castile, Alton Sterling, and many more. The most disappointing story for about police brutality was the shooting of Alton Sterling and the death of Eric Garner.

On July 6th, 2016, in Baton Rouge, Lousiasa, Alton Sterling was approached by two police officers who are told that Sterling had a gun. The owner of the store did mention that Sterling was not bothering anybody, but was at the front of the store selling DVDs. During the beginning and end of this, both of the police officers cursed and used agner, and force on Sterling and automatically pulled a gun on him. Seconds later both police officers attack sterling, while also wrestling with him on the ground due to both police officers knowing that Sterling had a gun, but never used the correct procedures to remove it from Sterlings possession. Sterling, who was defenseless while wrestling both officers, Sterling was shot multiple times, left in a puddle of blood.”Baton Rouge, we are sorry,” Paul said. “We’re sorry for our failure not to discipline an officer who demonstrated unprofessional behavior and violated our code of conduct consistently, escalating incidents. We’re sorry, Baton Rouge (Mettler, Katie).” 

In 2014, Eric Garner was apporcah by the NYPD in regards to allegedly selling loose cigarettes illegal on Staten Island, but Garner claims that he was not illegally selling anything and was breaking up a fight that has happened and was documented and recording of a separate video during the attraction (CNN Wire). During the arrest, Garner was tackled down by five NYPD officers, while one of them, officer Daniel Pantaleo, applied a fatal chokehold on Garner, while Garner’s final words, “I can’t breathe,” after being pronounced dead at the hospital (CNN Wire). Before the articulation, Garner has not done anything wrong and did not show any resisting (CNN Wire). Justice was never served both Alton Sterling, nor Eric Garner, and police officers till this day, still do not take any accountability for their actions.

Recent months have seen intensive investigations from BuzzFeed, the Los Angeles Times, the Miami Herald, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the Tampa Bay Times and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, among others. Several Post reporters, myself included, spent 2017 investigating what happens to “bad apple” police officers after they are fired. As it turns out, they often end up right back on the job (Lowery, W). Even though not all police officers are bad, there are a small percentage of them who actually are, make the entire law enforcement of the United States look bad, which causes a lot of friction in many communities, especially for the communities that deal with police brutality on a daily basis. As Many law enforcement officers get away with police brutality, it took five years to finally get justice for police brutality victim, Eric Garner. “Today, we have finally seen justice done,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said after his police commissioner James P. O’Neill announced at a news conference Monday that he was terminating Pantaleo (CNN Wire). 

When it comes to Law Enforcement for not being held accountable for committing police brutality, justice is never served. You can fire or suspend an officer for committing police brutality on a citizen, and the law enforcement seems to be ok with that. Ever since Officer Pantaleo may still be dismissed from the New York Police Department in the coming weeks, the bigger question is whether justice and accountability can be found in the legal and administrative decisions of prosecutors and police (The Washington Post). Garner’s death, like the deaths of many others at the hands of police, was not a tragic accident. Instead, it was a reflection of how we, as a nation, have chosen to protect white lives — and increasingly “blue” ones — at the expense of black ones. The laws allowing maximum discretion to use force are working as they were intended, and they reflect decades of rejecting alternative policy visions of policing that would have done far more to achieve racial justice (The Washington Post). Surprisingly, a century ago, officials blamed much of the problem on implicit bias. “We recognize that these practices and tendencies are,” they explained, “in a large degree the unconscious results of traditional race prejudice.” “They recommended all criminal justice agencies must “deal fairly (and without discrimination) with all persons charged with crime”(The Washington Post).”  

Officers have had charges against them dropped or reduced, while others were not charged at all. After five years of disagreement on how to move forward with the Eric Garner case, for example, Attorney General William Barr ordered that the DOJ’s investigation into Pantaleo’s use of force end in July 2019 (Gale, Black Lives Matter). 

We were a nation need to be more aware about this issue that is continuing to happen, and a way to have this be solved is the accountability of the law enforcement. Every Law enforcement officer needs to have a no tolerance rule on officers committing police brutality in order for this issue to decrease. As for the communities such as Chicago, IL, Brooklyn New York, Detroit, MI, Atlanta, Georgia, and many other cities that are affected by police brutality, the more our voices are heard and the message will continue to spread. We need to look out for one another, no matter what race and learn the difference between right and wrong. Even though police brutality will not be fully resolved, we can start off with looking out for one another. Will Justice ever be served? It is only a matter of time. Black lives don’t just matter, but all lives matter.

Works Cited

“Black Lives Matter.” Gale Opposing Viewpoints Online Collection, Gale, 2019. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/RMBGVS336742654/OVIC?u=pima_main&sid=OVIC&xid=a9781ef1. Accessed 26 Nov. 2019.

“Fired NYPD officer accused of choking Eric Garner files lawsuit against NYC.” CNN Wire, 24 Oct. 2019, p. NA. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A603658792/OVIC?u=pima_main&sid=OVIC&xid=c54be63c. Accessed 17 Nov. 2019.

“Justice for Eric Garner? Not even close.” CNN Wire, 19 Aug. 2019. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A596864719/OVIC?u=pima_main&sid=OVIC&xid=0b3290d0. Accessed 17 Nov. 2019.

Lowery, Wesley. “Police are still killing black people. Why isn’t it news anymore?” Washingtonpost.com, 12 Mar. 2018. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A530900300/OVIC?u=pima_main&sid=OVIC&xid=6c186dd7. Accessed 17 Nov. 2019. Muhammad, Khalil Gibran. “Why police accountability remains out of reach.”   Washingtonpost.com, 26 July 2019. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A594647478/OVIC?u=pima_main&sid=OVIC&xid=570a0ff0. Accessed 26 Nov. 2019.

Essay #1 and #2 Final draft Feedback and Grammar Guide

Based on my feedback for Essay #1, I received a 96% on the assignment and I mainly missed points for the introduction, context, and also for body paragraphs. Originally, the main issue that I have had with the essay is my grammar. For Essay #2, every single contact that was required for the essay was perfect, and correct and I have received a 100% on final Essay. I have also had the same issue with my grammar and context with this essay as well, but was eventually fixed after wards and I am starting to understand how to properly use grammar in certain sentences.

Deja Woolard

Janel Spencer

WRT 101S

November 21st, 2019

Police Brutality Against African Americans

Police Brutality has been around ever since the 1950’s and has been a way to punish and hurt African Americans in a discriminating way by police, and 50 years later, the issue still remains, and continuing to affect so many communities. Black men and boys face the highest risk of being killed by police–at a rate of 96 out of 100,000 deaths. By comparison, white men and boys face a lower rate of 39 per 100,000 deaths, despite being a bigger portion of the U.S. population. Overall, men faced a rate of 52 per 100,000 deaths (Santhanam, L), and law enforcement officers who commit the police brutality crime, needs to be held more accountable for their actions.  

In the 2010s, several communities held protests in response to incidents in which the victim was killed and the officers involved faced minimal consequences (Gale). Law enforcement can use any kind of unnecessary force such as a baton, gun, taser, and sometimes their fist when doing so, and even though police brutality can affect anybody, and any person of color, African Americans have been treated the worst of it to where it has already gotten to the point to where we are used to it by now. 

This issue doesn’t have to just be a physical act, but it can also be verbal abuse, intimidation, sexual abuse, and also false arrest, and to have most of the law enforcement get way with this issue, causes a bigger issue in the community, while also a form of injustice. Police Brutality has been starting to become more of an issue since the early 2010’s (Gale), and is also causing more protestings about it that evolved into a national movement calling for reforms in law enforcement tactics and training (gale). Many activist organizations, such as “Black Lives Matter,” has launched many police violent projects back in April of 2015, and has been used to track down any kind of violence and racial disparities based on the particular country of law enforcement (gale). Unformaylet, there have been many victims who were involved in this issue like Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Philando Castile, Alton Sterling, and many more. The most disappointing story for about police brutality was the shooting of Alton Sterling and the death of Eric Garner.

On July 6th, 2016, in Baton Rouge, Lousiasa, Alton Sterling was approached by two police officers who are told that Sterling had a gun. The owner of the store did mention that Sterling was not bothering anybody, but was at the front of the store selling DVDs. During the beginning and end of this, both of the police officers cursed and used agner, and force on Sterling and automatically pulled a gun on him. Seconds later both police officers attack sterling, while also wrestling with him on the ground due to both police officers knowing that Sterling had a gun, but never used the correct procedures to remove it from Sterlings possession. Sterling, who was defenseless while wrestling both officers, Sterling was shot multiple times, left in a puddle of blood.”Baton Rouge, we are sorry,” Paul said. “We’re sorry for our failure not to discipline an officer who demonstrated unprofessional behavior and violated our code of conduct consistently, escalating incidents. We’re sorry, Baton Rouge (Mettler, Katie).” 

In 2014, Eric Garner was apporcah by the NYPD in regards to allegedly selling loose cigarettes illegal on Staten Island, but Garner claims that he was not illegally selling anything and was breaking up a fight that has happened and was documented and recording of a separate video during the attraction (CNN Wire). During the arrest, Garner was tackled down by five NYPD officers, while one of them, officer Daniel Pantaleo, applied a fatal chokehold on Garner, while Garner’s final words, “I can’t breathe,” after being pronounced dead at the hospital (CNN Wire). Before the articulation, Garner has not done anything wrong and did not show any resisting (CNN Wire). Justice was never served both Alton Sterling, nor Eric Garner, and police officers till this day, still do not take any accountability for their actions.

Recent months have seen intensive investigations from BuzzFeed, the Los Angeles Times, the Miami Herald, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the Tampa Bay Times and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, among others. Several Post reporters, myself included, spent 2017 investigating what happens to “bad apple” police officers after they are fired. As it turns out, they often end up right back on the job (Lowery, W). Even though not all police officers are bad, there are a small percentage of them who actually are, make the entire law enforcement of the United States look bad, which causes a lot of friction in many communities, especially for the communities that deal with police brutality on a daily basis. As Many law enforcement officers get away with police brutality, it took five years to finally get justice for police brutality victim, Eric Garner. “Today, we have finally seen justice done,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said after his police commissioner James P. O’Neill announced at a news conference Monday that he was terminating Pantaleo (CNN Wire). 

Work Cited

“Fired NYPD officer accused of choking Eric Garner files lawsuit against NYC.” CNN Wire, 24 Oct. 2019, p. NA. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A603658792/OVIC?u=pima_main&sid=OVIC&xid=c54be63c. Accessed 17 Nov. 2019.

Lowery, Wesley. “Police are still killing black people. Why isn’t it news anymore?” Washingtonpost.com, 12 Mar. 2018. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A530900300/OVIC?u=pima_main&sid=OVIC&xid=6c186dd7. Accessed 17 Nov. 2019. 
“Justice for Eric Garner? Not even close.” CNN Wire, 19 Aug. 2019. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A596864719/OVIC?u=pima_main&sid=OVIC&xid=0b3290d0. Accessed 17 Nov. 2019.

Negotiation the Opposition: Police Brutality

The opposition for holding accountability of police brutality, is that justice has not been. It might but hard to know and understand what it going on in this issue, but there accountability needs to be handled by the law enforcement who committed the acts. I am not saying that all law enforcement officers are bad, but nothing is being done on the law enforcement side of this issue and the only thing that seems to happen as a form of punishment officers being suspended, or fired from the force, which is not enough to have justice for the families how have lost there loved ones. Trials need to happen and all of law enforcement in the United States needs to have a no tolerance rule or policy against police brutality. Officers need to be charged for committing the brutality against citizens and need to be found guilty of doing so. There needs to be fairness, but swift enough accountability to be able to send a message that police brutality will not be tolerated, but it can be a hard thing to achieve, due to the fact that it can be a form of the law enforcement showing and admitting the police brutality exist, but this issue can no longer be ignored.

What I have learned about the conversation is that I was able to persuade them in about who real police brutality is and provide examples on the victims of the issue. I think that being able to thoroughly explain the detail and acts of police brutality has really helped my peers understand the issue and why is it is still a big deal against African Americans 50+ years later. Most of my peers agree with how bad of an issue police brutality is, and a few did not, due to the situation on how police needing to be trained more with the issue, but that was a comment that I completely disagree with. I was also able to have most of my peers agree with me with the solution that I have stated for police brutality, which is having police office be held accountable or committing police brutality. Overall, the conservation with most of my peer went very well and most of them agreed with my issue.

Essay #3 Outline: Police Brutality against African Americans

Introduction: Police Brutality is one to the top deaths for African Americans.

Thesis Statement: Having the law enforcement officers who commit the police brutality crime, needs to be held more accountable for there actions.

Body of the argument: Police brutality is a way to enforce a bias against Africans Americans because how we have been treated in the past, and how the law enforcement will consider African Americans to be more of a threat than an by other race in america. This issue has been happening since the 1950’s and nothing is being resolved. Victims such as Alton Sterling and Eric Garner has been victims of police brutality.

Back information of body argument: Racism is involved in the act of police brutality, and it also does not matter what race the police officer is to commit the brutality.

Conclusion: Police officers need to be focusing on protecting and respecting the communities that they are suppose to be protecting, and we as people need to be more aware about the issue and look after one another.