Chokehold

arms around his neck and pushing him down onto the ground where four police officers came swarming in detaining Eric Garner. “ In an amateur video taken during Garner's arrest it shows a plain clothes police officer placing him in what appears be a chokehold, which is banned under NYPD policy. In the video, Garner can be…

Racial profiling is the use of race or ethnicity as grounds for suspecting someone of having committed an offense. Most racial profiling can also be known as being prejudice or the preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual opinion. A rather common example of racial profiling would be “driving while black” or also known as DWB. Driving while black is when police officers target African American drivers for traffic stops plainly because they believe that they are more likely to be…

Garner was suspected of selling “ loosies” (loose cigarettes) without a tax stamp. Officer Pantaleo was seen in video evidence as using a chokehold on mr. garner after attempting to arrest him had failed. Eric Garner had expressed discomfort by repeating eleven times “I can’t breathe.” For fifteen seconds (approximately) officer Pantaleo kept Mr. Garner in this chokehold until he was no longer moving. For seven minutes garner laid motionless on the ground. No CPR was performed in the seven…

The Start to a Much Needed Change: Body Worn Cameras In recent months, police brutality has been a prominent focus on the media, with cases such as the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and the illegal chokehold that resulted in the death of Eric Garner this July. Michael Brown was only eighteen years old when police officer, Darren Wilson, shot him, resulting in a controversial divide in the nation about which side to believe: the eyewitnesses from the community or officer…

The beatings on King were recorded by a bystander watching the events unfold (Linder, 2001) . More recently however, were the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown. Garner’s death happened in the summer of 2014 when he was killed by an illegal chokehold (Goodman, 2014) . Brown was shot dead on August 9, 2014 by officer Wilson after an altercation (Documents describe Ferguson officer 's version of fatal shooting, 2014). These events could have been either avoided or have been resolved easily if…

Over 18,000 agencies have reported fatal shootings last year (Kindy 4). Police are shooting left and right no matter the race or the gender they are shooting. "The average age of a person killed by police in 2015 was 37" (Swaine 3). This is showing us that police may be killing innocent people like those people may have families and children. Usually people in their thirties are just new to starting families are already have a family but that may be taken away because of the police. "Police will…

Michael Brown, it also results in many unnecessary stops and searches, harassment and intimidation, and even confiscation of property without due process.” Eric Garner was a 43-year-old man who was killed when a police officer performed a chokehold. The chokehold strategy was banned in the New York police department policy specifically because it could cause difficulty in breathing. Garner gasped multiple times that he could not breathe and the officers simply ignored him and continued, which…

In the United State over the last 3 years, police brutality happens more and more frequently. Are they abuse their power or are they just simply do their job? To have a better understanding about this issue, first we need to know what is police brutality? Police brutality is the use of any force exceeding that reasonably necessary to accomplish a lawful police purpose. As of now, polices seem to use more unnecessary violence forces toward the citizens especially with the minority groups. In the…

New technological advances provide new options for police and law enforcement agencies, also it presents new challenges. Nowadays a great percentage of population owns some sort of portable recording device, they can range from a simple camera phone with very poor image and sound capacity, to a very sophisticated drone with high pixel camera, magnifying zoom, and global positioning system, but no matter what it is there is always something new and more advanced every day. Police need to keep up…

persons think that the presence of body camera will not change anything as the justice system will be in favor of police, for example, Garner an African American was selling cigarettes illegally, and he died from asphyxiation after he was put in a chokehold by the officer. Despite video footage the jury did not convict the officer. Additionally people believe that police wearing body camera will invade person's privacy. Footage…