#policebrutality

The #policebrutality movement is about the many deaths caused by misuse of weapons on innocent and usually African-american teens. This has been happening for decades but is becoming more noticed and talked about with the ease of spreading news or social media. Many people have been beaten, assaulted or murder by police officers because they think they have the power to do what they want.This is a new hashtag but old with the history of police abusing their powers and having racist outlooks on other

people. But the hashtag was started a few years ago with the growing problem of police attacking and killing African american teens. Once these stories got out people started using the #black lives matter and #policebrutality hand in hand. The hashtag is getting used less and less which is great but it is still being used and the police are still abusing there power. But it is still a movement that has started and it is a redemptive movement because it is spreading awareness of the police killings while trying to save lives by using their voices. When people start spreading the message that people are getting shot for no reason they will be more careful, maybe travel together, stick together and maybe unite together under one thing everyone deserves to be treated the same. This movement is needed because sometimes people go mad with their so called power, and when that happens they do things they think is right because they believe certain people don’t deserve to live the same lives as them. So when this happens it is the job of the hurt to speak up and defend themselves. And a lot of police officers should be honored but there are some with bad thoughts and ideas and they turn those thoughts into actions pretty quickly and people end up dying and they still think it was the right thing to do. Many people have been killed from way back in the 60's when it wasn't seen as big of a problem up until now, when it is one of the biggest racial issues of all.
The motivation behind my hashtag was started by some strains of murders by police officers in 2016. But it stretches back to 1963 with the murder of many African Americans. And it is particularly close to New York and Chicago and the general US being unsafe. And there is proof to show that people have been killed both in the 60's and very recently. "There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, ‘When will you be satisfied?" said Martin Luther King, Jr. in his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech at the 1963 march. His words continue to resonate today after a long history of violent confrontations between African-American citizens and the police. "We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality." This is showing that the 60's where a brutally time but it isn't so much better now a days. Last month (October,2016) , hours after a jury acquitted former police officer Jeronimo Yanez of manslaughter in the shooting death of 32-year-old Philando Castile, protesters in St. Paul, Minnesota, shutdown Interstate 94. With signs that read:

“Black Lives Matter” and “No Justice, No Peace,” the chant of “Philando, Philando” rang out as they marched down the highway in the dark of night. Ans this is a needed movement people need to know that it isn't super safe to be by yourself no matter what. The movement has impacted the world in a good way because it has informed the public has been informed to go places together and be safer. People have been spreading the message in many ways too. The yellowing sign is a reminder of the continuous oppression and violence that has disproportionately shaken black communities for generations—“We Demand an End to Police Brutality Now!” is painted in red and white letters. And people are starting to spread the message again because it has been too long without change. “The message after 50 years is still unresolved,” remarks Samuel Egerton, a college professor, who donated the poster to the museum. He carried it in protest during the 1963 March on Washington. Five decades later, the poster’s message rings alarmingly timely. Were it not for the yellowed edges, the placard could almost be mistaken for a sign from any of the Black Lives Matter marches of the past three years. But people need to remember not all police officers have a racist outlook and a lot of police officers are nice and still pure people.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/long-painful-history-police-brutality-in-th e-us-180964098/

https://www.nytimes.com/topic/subject/police-brutality-misconduct-and-shootings