Brenton Butler a fifteen year old boy was taken into custody for twelve hours. ... Michael Crowe a fourteen year old boy of Escondido, California has a similar situation. ... He was a black male that could have fit the description of couldn't have but he was held in custody and then admitted to a crime that he would have never thought of committing. ...
It was about this black 15-year-old boy (Brendan) on trial for murdering an old white lady. ... The boy had too much stuff up against him to prove he was not guilty, but the husband just was so sure Brendan was the killer. ... They found the boy not guilty and the boy sued the police for beating him also. The police handled that poorly, just because he was black and around the area after the fact it happened doesn't mean they had the right to treat him that way. ...
Whites did what they could to push blacks as much out of their community as possible and blacks tended to avoid areas where their presence could create conflict. ... The African American boy subsequently died from his injuries, but police refused to arrest the white man who initially threw the stones, igniting a race war between the whites and blacks of Chicago. Participants of the Chicago race riots, on both sides, (white and black), took to the streets ready for violence, and anything in between. ... Police officers arrested "twice as many blacks as whites and they were considered bia...
Throughout the world today many black youth are being killed by the people who are suppose to protect and serve us. ... The black people of Ferguson are reaching a boiling point when it comes to racial inequality in this death. ... In Ferguson, there are 67 percent of black people but the police force only has three black officers. ... A 17 year old boy was roughed up and arrested for not leaving a McDonald's quick enough. ... By attacking the black community and their involvement with crimes and drugs. ...
defines racial profiling as the discriminatory practice by police of treating blackness or brownness as an indication of possible criminality. ... In contrast, the Daily Illini cites that racial profiling is generally thought of as the targeting of blacks more than whites in traffic stops or accusing blacks of crimes on the basis of race alone. ... There is the incident with the boy shown on video being punched in the face by a police officer in California, while he was handcuffed. ... Meanwhile its not just youth who adhere to this type of treatment, but its majority of black males as a whole...
For many years after the Civil War, when blacks were set free, the black population was almost never treated equal until around the late nineteenth century. ... His name was Tom Robinson, a fellow member of Maycombs small black community. There are three other main characters in the story and, there names are: Atticus who was Toms attorney and a father to a boy and girl named Jem and Scout. ... The jury was composed of ten whites, one Hispanic, one Asian and not a single black. ... There were no blacks chosen to be on the jury of his trial and the jury members somehow knew a cop. ...
