Police brutality is sometimes referred to as the various human rights violated by police officers. A definition that can better define police brutality is the "unwarranted or excessive and often illegal use of force against civilians by police officers". Brutal and/or illegal acts conducted by some police officers to some civilians include torture, unlawful killings, beatings, indiscriminate use of riot control against protestors, and racial abuse. Police officers often take action based off of prejudice and/or bias. This topic stands out to me and is important to me because I identify and play an active role in many heavily biased groups.
Many people, as well as police officers can be heavily biased about the African-American community, Muslim community, and females. I am one from each of those communities. I sometimes feel like I could be a target or a future victim of police brutality. I not only sometimes fear for myself, but am especially fearful for my African-American Muslim brothers, father, cousins, and nephews. From the article "What the data say about police brutality and racial bias-and which reforms might work", an estimate is mentions and it states that Black men are 2.5 times more likely than white men to be killed by police during their lifetime. The same article states another study that was conducted that concludes that Black people who were fatally shot by police seemed to be twice as likely as white people to be unarmed.
What I know is that I do not want to change my race, my religious practice, and my gender because each are a part of my identity and makes me proud. What I would want to change are all of the past, present, and most-likely future acts of brutality from police officers. It is mostly unnecessary and always heartbreaking to those effected by it.
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