Wednesday, January 7, 2015

                Racial Profiling






            Many people are being killed for the color of their skin ; Mostly black males . Law enforcements say they only arrest people who commit crimes , regardless of their race. Racial relationship have been in the spotlight for several months , leading up to of teenager , Michael Brown , in Ferguson Missouri . The Officer who shot Michael Brown is Darren Wilson . Michael brown was shot on August 9, 2014. At least 70 departments scattered from Connecticut to California arrested black people at a rate 10 times higher than people who are not black, united states  today found .Island husband and father was clearly standing peaceably on the sidewalk when New York Police Department officers approached him and attempted to arrest him. Garner is currently being described as around 6,3 and  roughly 350 pounds. A Black  Was a confronted by the police department for selling cigarettes. NYPD’s Department of Internal Affairs launched an investigation, and found that Garner was due in court on charges of pot possession and selling untaxed cigarettes.


 Racial profiling occurs every day, in cities and towns across the country, when law enforcement and private security target people of color for humiliating and often frightening detentions, interrogations, and searches without evidence of criminal activity and based on perceived race, ethnicity, national origin or religion.

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