Arbitrary Arrest And Exile
Human Rights Violations
What Is A Human Right & What Is Being Violated?
Human rights are right you get for simply being a human, and you get them when your first born. Human rights are important and lets us be free, but there are cases where people abused their power and then violate your rights as a human. Article 9 in the Universal Human Rights document, it states that people have the right to walked down the street without police officers arresting, putting you in jail, beating you with arrested and/or unarmed. Including the potential consequences such as in the process of arrest, the officer instead of placing you in the car to send you away without a fir trial, your shot or beaten to potential death. These acts of violent outburst and attack with citizens, majority being black or Latino, young males between the ages of preteens to teenagers to young adults.This is an issue all over the United States that has caused innocent people in jail, has caused people new scars and battle wounds, and the death of many loved ones. Young black or Latino males are getting interrogated and arrested and killed. And under what grounds? For walking down on street? For trying to go somewhere? For standing outside your house? And yet the victim is to blame for fighting back when the one in authority had started the situation. Then a family as at a loss, and the police officer gets to walk away free, and even if they do get some type of sentence, it's always reduced or get let out early. This is still going on in the streets. Young kids are already fighting a war on the streets, with themselves, with their families, with each other, and now the police. Police officers should be reassuring our safety, we entrust them with it, and yet people who are innocent are getting shot, beaten, sent away without a valid reason to.
Baltimore
- A young man, the age of 25, was injured by a police officer. Quoting: "... was struggling to walk."
- The man man named Freddie Gray had spinal injuries and as walking to the police station to report his injures (being as he got attacked) he couldn't make it and died.
- How do you explain a man who was walking fine in the morning, come out of a police car with a spinal injury and then ended up dead on the street?
- Again, protests in honor of Freddie Gray were displayed as not only mourning him, but making a statement on a victim who lost his life due to a national issue
- As far as the officers (6 who were responsible for the death of Freddie Gray) they were sent to jail
Site and Pictures :http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/04/the-mysterious-death-of-freddie-gray/391119/
New York
- "I Can't Breathe" were Eric Garner's last words while being chocked to death by 4-5 officers.
- This man was caught while on his way out from the store. Reason why the officers stopped him was the fact that the officers had "suspicion" to stop him
- He was a real big guy, and he was trying to defend himself, but that was a losing battle
- The attack against Eric Garner and the officers we not charged with any type of punishment what-so-ever
- People outraged, but made peaceful marches as opposed to other situation where people were angry and dangerously angry
Picture & Site: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/eric-garner-death-ruled-homicide-medical-examiner-article-1.1888808
Ferguson
- The death of Michael Brown was a controversial and left an ugly war for the people in Ferguson. People were shocked that the officer was let go free without any charges or arrest or even jail time.
- He was shot by a white police offer, claiming that the officer had suspicions and and began yelling to get him off of the middle of the road.
- It ended up being a confrontation and Michael Brown was "fighting back" which therefore an officers first instinct it to fire arms, right? But why was the confrontation made in the first place? This could have been easily avoided!
- People outraged with the "justice" that was made for Michael, peaceful protests were made before any type of charge or sentence was made for the officer
- After the family and the people of Ferguson found out about what was the officer getting for shooting an unarmed young black male, the angry and outraged, fell apart and rioted. US flags burned, shop windows broken, police cars turned over, men and women killed, building set on fire, literally a war zone in Ferguson.
BBC BBC . “Ferguson Riots: Ruling Sparks Night of Violence.” http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-30190224. BBC News , 25 Nov. 2014. Web. 14 June 2015.
Picture: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/ferguson-riots-how-death-unarmed-4696889
What's Being Done
As far as police brutality goes, its a violation against human rights. What's being done is that there are law firms/attorneys are specified in this field and situation to help people who were or are survivors get help or justice. For the families who have lost their child(ren) due to this problem, they are getting help for justice. Overall, in the cases that don't really have justice done, people make iconic picture, used quotes, and use it to inform that police brutality is still around and it can happen to anyone. The public is the informer, and the death of their loved ones are getting justice by being used as an example to help prevent police brutality as opposed to leave it in the laws hands.
Police Brutality & Misconduct Attorney
They help give justice to the victims of the deceased and the families who suffered the loss of ones.
Website: http://www.attorneys.com/police-brutality-misconduct/
References
- BBC BBC . “Ferguson Riots: Ruling Sparks Night of Violence.” http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-30190224. BBC News , 25 Nov. 2014. Web. 14 June 2015.
- Picture: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/ferguson-riots-how-death-unarmed-4696889
- Picture & Site: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/eric-garner-death-ruled-homicide-medical-examiner-article-1.1888808
- Site and Pictures :http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/04/the-mysterious-death-of-freddie-gray/391119/
- http://www.euromid.org/en/page/17 http://chicago.cbslocal.com/tag/police-brutality/