Article of the Week

            The article that I chose for this week is entitled, "The real whistle-blower in police brutality." This article explains that smartphones have shed a light on the public on the police brutality towards the African American race and not the American justice system. The black race itself did not realize how bad things were until videos were shown of police officers being aggressive with unarmed individuals. The Guardian shares that 32% of African-Americans killed were unarmed while 15% of Whites and 25% of Latinos did not have weapons. The article does not bash police officers themselves but shares that some police officers need to be trained more before going out on the job. The killing of innocent black men and women like Sandra Bland and Eric Gardner needs to stop immediately. Every life is precious, and everyone should be punished for their actions. The lives of many individuals have been taken for no good reason. Police officers should be able to be the bigger person even if a citizen has a bad attitude and not resort to killing individuals. This topic is very significant in this world today because the aggressiveness toward the black race shows a sense of racism. Martin Luther King Jr. fought to see us live without having to go through life being treated differently than other races. We should all be treated equal. Black lives do matter.