Racially profiled lives matter

Police officers racially profile a suspicious person on the streets that is just
minding their own business just seems to be out of control to others. Most of the time
that police officers stop someone, usually is stopped for no reason. Some would say
that police officers are just doing their job to keep the community safe, and keep
criminals off the streets.
Any approach from a police officer seems to be scary to a lot of people; there is
not a safe feeling by them, but fear of what may happen. These encounters with the
police are degrading and often frightening, and the real number of people harassed is
undoubtedly higher than the numbers reported by the police. There are a lot of people
who fit the look of a suspect on the loose; its irritating because that person being
stopped did not do anything. People going about their daily business, bothering no one,
are menaced out of the blue by the police, forced to spread themselves face down in
the street, or plaster themselves against a wall, or bend over the hood of a car, to be
searched, for minding our own business, we get stopped for fitting the look of someone
that is on the lookout.
Everywhere you go, there will be some kind of police officer stopped an innocent
person. Police officers are fed up with it themselves. Other police officers didnt
recognize him and, according to Thomas, slammed his head into his vehicle, threw him
to the ground and handcuffed him, even a retired police officer who was unrecognized,
had got slammed because of racial profiling. After stopping someone being suspicious
and ends up hurting that person anyways, does the police officer feel any bit of emotion
towards that innocent person who had done nothing. Kristof added in, A video released
a few days a few days ago shows the boys 14-year-old sister rushing to her fallen
brother- and then tackled by police, handcuffed, and placed in a police car a few feet
from her dying brother. There was no sympathy for a girl who just witnessed her
brother getting shot by a police officer and handcuffed herself.
Can we take some of these people who are currently officers and redeploy them
as public servants without guns and who are actually serving the community because in
my lifetime and I think for a lot of people in these communities, they do not perceive
police officers as public servants that are creating safety. There's danger. There isnt
the slightest feeling of safety when a police officer stops someone, or even near. It is
sad for the community to feel that way.
There was a situation with a police officer and male that was pretty bad in my
opinion. The officer had said,"Get back in your (f word) car before I give you a bunch of
tickets," one cop told him, according to court papers. Instead of threatening to give
tickets, the cop could have asked calmly for them to get back into the car. The police
officer could have handled the situation a lot differently than he did.
It is time for police officers to make a change in racial profiling and stop putting
fear into the community that they serve.

Work Cited
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Considered, 26 Sept. 2016. Student Resources in Context, 1 Dec. 2016.

Saul, Josh. "America Has a Stop-and-Frisk Problem. Just Look at Philadelphia;

The police tactic stop-and-frisk is still a national scandal, and Philadelphia is one
of the biggest battlefronts in the war to end it." Newsweek, 10 June 2016.
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Herbert, Bob. "Jim Crow Policing." The New York Times. The New York Times,
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