Stop Police Bruality

The history of Police Bruality was first used in the 1600s. The first use of this term was in the New York Times in 1893, describing a police officer's beating of a civilian. Police brutality can be associated with racial profiling. Portions of the population may perceive the police to be oppressor. In addition, there is a perception that victims of police brutality often belong to relatively powerless groups, such as minorities, the young, and the poor. Police brutality is one of several forms of police misconduct , which include false arrest , racial profiling , surveillance abuse and police corruption. For example A 15-year-old student at Garfield Park, a private school for children with emotional or behavioral disorders, was shot twice after he threatened the police with a pair of scissors. The incident happened in front of the school. The boy was first threatening some school employees and also some students, before he ran out on the parking lot where he pointed two scissors at a police officer. He was asked to put his weapon down, and a witness said that she heard how they yelled ”put it down, put it down!repeatedly ” before the sound of two gunshots being fired. The officer that shot the boy, William Smith, was not injured. The shooting will be investigated according to the Burlington County Prosecutor's Office. The boy was reported in critical but stable condition at Cooper University Hospital, Camden. Carol Dunn had a similar incident with the police in New Jersey, where her son was shot by an officer outside a church because he refused to let go of the knife he was holding.  statisticly facts states that still to this day the officer of the crime have not been sentence or indited


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