Friendly Cop

Police Brutality: is the intentional use of excessive force, usually physical, but potentially also in the form of verbal attacks and psychological intimidation, by a police officer.

Police officer; to protect and serve, clean the streets, beat up teens, and shoot people in the back. Where do I sign up?!

Police brutality affects a lot of people. Especially young teens, more so in the Englewood area. There have been many cases that have gone unheard of ,or dropped as soon as their opend. Through some research on a few sites, police have been using excessive force, primarily with a gun. After major cases that haven't made the news, reporters have talked to eye witnesses, particulary this one case about a young man, and have gotten their take on an event that left a young man’s body here, but his soul somewhere else. Many say the young man was shot by the cop after he dropped his gun, but when more cops arrived on the scene none of them ask what the witnesses saw. The case was dismissed just as fast as it started.

Not only affected in Englewood, but teens of other minority groups of other areas have also felt the dark side of the killer cop. These teens talk about how they have personally been hurt by police or have watched someone being hurt by a friendly cop. According to the Heritage Foundation; it’s the teenager’s fault that we are being treated this way since we have been the cause of most of the violence over the past couple of years. They use this as an excuse to say we were resisting arrest or to get themselves off the bench.

The experience I have had with my protectors wasn’t quit a great one and it confirmed my thoughts and feelings towards cops. To shorten what happened to me, my brother and a friend were thought to have had a gun and the security guard at Burger king called the cops. The guard descried someone else as having the gun, but when we were stopped in an alley by super heroes with swards pointed at us, the guard told a different story. My sister I and were in the alley to pick up my brother from his friends house when the escapade came and swarmed around us. They did follow procedure after they of course snatch my brother’s friend out of the car and slam him on the ground causing his private area to fall out. Hey a WoMan’s got to do what they have to do. They wound up taking my brother in after the guard changed his story and when it came time for court the guard was nowhere to be found so the case was dropped.

After interviewing a young man about some of his situations with knight and shining armor, I learned that he to feels the unlucky raft of the police. He reminded me of a time when he walked me to my car. It was very cold outside and he had on nothing but shorts. He ran back to the front door to get out of the cold and at the same time the police were coming around the corner and they stopped him and asked him why he was running. He gave them a response and they said “Oh I thought you were running from us or something”. Here is a young man that grew up in Englewood, raised to survive in the streets, but not to live in the streets. Police unfortunately don’t see it that way and will go by any means to PROTECT AND SERVE!