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Class Discussion: Leave Your Thoughts Here

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Class Discussion: Leave Your Thoughts Here

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1. Let's take a moment to acknowledge the loss of another life that happened this week.

2. Please read the article and share your thoughts.

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April 12, 2021 - Letters from an American

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I think it’s pretty obvious what the reason for the officer not automatically getting a manslaughter charge for killing an unarmed man, but I do think that talking isn’t doing anything for anyone. It’s like we go through everyday seeing more and more people being oppressed by police or white supremacy and it’s like we all just wanna say , “this has to stop” no one.... stops it thought. Action must be taken now and if we have to resort to violence like they do I feel it should be necessary because when was the last time in history that violence hadn’t shown a purpose or a reason no matter how trivial or severe.

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Based on the article it talks about police brutality and all this tragedies. There’s a lot that needs to be changed and should’ve been done already. In today’s society all people do is protest out in public and speak for what they believe is right, but there is still no change. Maybe the best way to make change could be violence because police brutality has been talked about many times and there was nothing done about it to stop it as though there was a lot of changes made but not enough.

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I think this article does a great job with highlighting that officers have as a hard time with only handling the business that their payroll allows. These officers decided who is punished and who deserves to do while covering it up with "fear". The letter also shows us how that racist patterns we are seeing are far from new.

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This letter talks about the most recent murder of another unarmed black man which is one of the many repetitive injustices faced by black and poc communities for 500 years. The crime scene of Daunte Wright was only a few miles from the tragic death of George Floyd which was also at the hands of an police officer. The fact that black men and women are always a target for police and people of the justice system who are put in place to serve and protect is baffling to me because if you cant trust your "protector" which is the enemy are you being protected at all? No, and this has been the story for African Americans since we've landed on this country 500 years ago. So this "letter to America" is emphasizing that the pain and injustice of our past that is still our present will continue to future if not changed.

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Base on the article, I haven’t seen any prove to recommend that the officer who shot Wright mixed up her weapon for her taser since he was dark, how could you mix something like that, I would believe both have a different weight to them, with a gun being more heavy because of the bullets that are in them. Any officer that seem make that kind of life altering mistake should be soothed of obligation and restrained internally and fired at that point. Screaming isn't a risk either, I have looked at police with biases, appears beautiful clearly that separation is the clarification of unbalanced activity stops the use of non-lethal force.

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reading and seeing things like this on the regular doesnt make me sad nor does it make me feel any safer in this world under the law. with each death i grow more and more numb and find it more ridiculous to believe in a system that wasn't designed for people of color. how do we hold a system accountable who at heart truly doesn't care about us? i just think its insane to believe in this system, to be blunt. The stuff happening is nothing new, my advice is for everyone to practice being right and attempting to get in the lords good graces so that it don't happen to you. and if it does, i hope you know how to defend yourself, because you should hurt those who try an harm you.

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Over the years, you would think that police brutality would have lightened but it hasn't. Instead of seeing changes for the better, things have just gotten worse. Ever since covid & quarantine, there have been multiple incidents involving Blacks, and other minority groups as well, and the police force. It seems like the cold-blooded killings and discrimination towards the minority groups has not stopped at all. What are we supposed to do, as residents of this country, if the people who are supposed to make us feel "safe" targets us?! Daunte Wright, Trayvon Martin, George Floyd, Mahkia Bryant, and numerous other names will be remembered. It's sad that African American parents, in particular, has to give a speech to their young children about what to do when you encounter a police officer. The way us minorities have to live is SAD & UPSETTING!

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Black Americans are more than twice as likely as white americans to be killed by police officers. Stuff like this saddens me because it is an issue that has been going on way before this whole pandemic. Even now recently this 15 year oldddd was shot and killed, so my question is when will all of this stop? when? We have not seen mayor steps being taking to eliminate police brutality. Something we've seen is that police officers believe the person is armed and it turns out not to be the case, but they realize that when its too late.

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Time and time again there is an excuse as to why a police officer has killed someone. And lets face it they do so because the law allows them to think that they are above all. The law no longer defines what occurs in the world. The law has no meaning to us in color. Because of the law we are still facing brutality from the very government that is supposed to be protecting us. Therefore no more excuses for these police officer and anyone racist standing with them , we are tired of hearing a reason why someone of color has been murdered. There is no explanation for these deaths they must come to an end because our very own government has failed us once again.

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I agree with Tahir. I feel as though no matter how many times we say that this has to end, nothing changes. Everybody gets so caught up in VERBALLY rising to the occasion, yet nobody does anything to help PHYSICALLY. We'd rather record others dying, than to help. It saddens me that policemen and women use their authority yet again to their advantage and to our disadvantage and they are to be let slide. Had the roles been reversed, had a black police officer killed a random unarmed white person, those police officers would've definitely got killed, or immediately sent to prison. It's almost like we're damned if we do and we're damned if we don't when it comes to police because time and time again, they prove to us that we can't trust them and in them doing so only supports the claim. As a whole, as black people, instead of taking EVERYTHING to social media and protesting, we should find some other way to handle this pressure and oppression because whether we like it or not, nothing we're doing is working and will never work in my opinion.

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Based on this article, anyone can see the racial injustice in the legal justice system. Like said in the article, these police officers are taking the job of judge, jury, and executioners all in that one incident. And we know this is a racial problem because it is always a white cop and black victim. We're also not going to act like this is new to us. This is not going to get any better until we train these officer correctly, and make sure they're fit for this job.

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Here we go another article dealing with a black male being killed. Officers are not doing there jobs us as the black community should not fear the people who are suspose to protect us. Officers are taking power and abuse which not okay because its more bodies being dropped then saved.

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Firstly , I really think this cops who are killing this unarmed black men don't think they are making a serious mistake. It keeps happening and people are not taking this matter as serious as it should be taken. It will take so much for the Justice system to sentence a white serial killer to death, but it takes them nothing to kill a black man on the street. They take black peoples lives like it is a slaughterhouse. This should be the biggest problem on America's list. The police system should get a 1000% makeover from the inside out .
Secondly Those who were so motivated to prove that black people were so unequal to white people all just wanted free labor and money. Now that all those people are dead, those who believe in their ideology and are not motivated by what they were, are just ignorant and foolish.

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The article brought up an interesting point that I did not consider. With these cops killing innocent black people, they are defying the justice system and disregarding the value of democracy. They are reinforcing the white-confederate supremacy attitude that divided the country during the time of the civil war. We take 1 step forward, 3 steps back and it raises the question of why did we seek independence from Great Britain if we are just gonna end up oppressing each other? The entire law enforcement system needs to be re-evaluated and have stricter consequences.

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I like the connection the article made to the civil war. As we all know, racial injustice has been a problem that's existed for many years. No matter how much progress is made, people of color are constantly pushed back right to where we started. I agree with Jesus on the idea that we need to use violence. I also agree with Lisa when she said what was the importance of fighting for our independence in Great Britain. It 's just crazy that we are in 2021, and things are still the same. That should raise a lot of concern about the meaning behind America's morals

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The article opened my mind to the relationship between police brutality and upholding confederate beliefs from the Civil War era. One of the strongest instances of divide between the black community and the white community was during the Civil War, where white people restricted their rights to freedom.However, while there are similarities I think that police brutality now is a last effort in upholding a system they is constantly being broken down everyday, and although their are many injustices that black people have to face in today's society, we are a lot closer to social equality then ever.

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I agree with jesus and I think that people have been protesting for so long and have believed that to be the only way we could fight back. And so far that hasn't been working so well. I think that having that legal limitation is holding minorities back even more from fighting for what we deserve. We've seen many incidences where white people get lesser consequences for doing a specific crime and then see a black person commit the same crime and  get a bigger consequence. So having this legal limitation sort of help the people in power still stay in  control while also legally allowing us to do all we think we can do. So like what jesus said I think we need to fight back more and show that we aren't gonna accept the treatment forced upon us. People fighting back more would show how serious the situation really is and why it needs the attention asked for. It seems like the majority only respond when the minority get loud so i think we should get louder.

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I agree with the article about how they said that they are mainly killing suspected Black people but I feel like these problems are made to try and get people angry because anger is one of the factors in the product that is complete control. When you are angry, you aren't thinking like you would normally do so you do things that you wouldn't normally do for example riots. That is how the system makes a criminal out of a legal person. They show police targeting black people in order to get innocent black people to do illegal deeds. It makes sense because if we go back to Adam's point in class, the police need to get tickets or stop "criminals" so what they are doing now is attempting to make criminals out of innocent black men. At this point, I think the only way to defend yourself from this system is to be as compliant as possible to the police, as they have Death in their right or left pocket, and always keep a camera because getting brutalized while making the cops job as easy as possible would not be a good look for them. Also, don't do illegal things. Complete compliance is the compromise we have to make with the law to avoid their complete control and it is sad.

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I like how the article made the reference to the civil war and also gave there strong opinions . in this world  racial inequality has been a long-standing and bad treatments is problem for people of color but they are continually pulled back to where we begun, no matter how much change is achieved.

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Reading this article I feel like this doesn’t change anything , this isn’t anything new and our system isn’t going to change , they charged this officer with manslaughter when he obviously murdered this man for no reason, George  Floyd was basically fighting for his life , everyone sees this as change but I see this as the bare minimum, for this black people as well, I mean this was a step but did that stop another little black innocent  boy from getting killed by a police officer (daunte Wright ). NO!

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"Individual police officers appear to have taken the law into their own hands and become judge, jury, and executioner." This quote right here sums up the state of America. The sole purpose of the Civil War was to grant freedom to African Americans, we are freed but at what cost. America is literally living backwards, reverting back to using racism at such an excessive force, police officers abusing their power based on the color of your skin. The job of the officer is protect and serve the people within the community. Not to pick and choose who lives and who dies. Unarmed African Americans have lost their lives because the so called police "felt their life was threatened". Yet the officer who shot Duante Wright couldn't tell the difference between a taser and a gun? Cops treated wounds and gave water to a white man who was suspected of a double homicide. They pampered Kyle Rittenhouse after he shot into a BLM protest killing two innocent people, but killed Mah'kia within 10 SECONDS, after SHE called them to PROTECT HER! It is the hypocrisy America is founded on, "all men are created equal" but if you're skin is darker than a plastic bag or a brown paper bag then you're dead.

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I agree with this article to a certain extent when it says that African Americans are usually target by police.I disagree at a certain extent because nothing can justify the death of innocent people not even confusing a taser for a gun that doesn't make sense to me because they are not identical in any way.Racism has been happening for decades and years and i feel like a article doesn't do much since words are not heard their stopped from people like George Floyd.

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I feel like this article doesn't offer any new or surprising information. It also doesn't any solution to problem at hand. It's like yeah black people are being targeted by law enforcement but what are we gonna do to change that? What the article does mention is that Daunte Wright and George Floyd shouldn't have been killed. The police made themselves "judge, jury, and executioner" which is exactly right but where do we go from here? Derek Chauvin was charged and all which is great but that should be the expectation. You do something horrible and you're held accountable for it. I don't see Chavin's conviction as justice because like I said, George Floyd should be alive. Plus, there are countless of other cases where black people have been killed by the police and nothing happened. There's still work to be done

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After reading the article, I realized that I am actually starting to normalize cases and issues like that and it should be a major problem. This article is one of a hundred that I read or saw over this past month. I agree with this article when it said that, ¨Mr. Floyd and Mr. Wright are not on trial¨ and that is the issue I feel like the police take it upon themselves to serve justice but that is not their place.  So many cases do not even get a trial and this is because the police are condemning them to death without any due process of law. We all know the system is rigged,  It is honestly not a new thing or any new surprise but It is definitely something that should not be a normality,

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Kuron ,to be honest, after reading this article its sad to that I can't even be upset anymore. they make it seem like a real life video game. like they going for kill count. Cant even take time to talk about the shootings beaus they just keep happening 

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Kuron ,to be honest, after reading this article its sad to that I can't even be upset anymore. they make it seem like a real life video game. like they going for kill count. Cant even take time to talk about the shootings beaus they just keep happening 

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This just keeps happening, when is it going to stop? Police are steadily killing African Americans because they think its okay and they are "scared." There's no reason to be afraid and mistakenly kill someone. You reach for your taser but grab your gun, HOW? A gun is way heavier than a gun and its different. There's no way you could have made that mistake.

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This article is telling the Black community that in America being killed by the cops is normal. We have been seeing the same thing on camera since Rodney King in 1992. We are tried of seeing the same thing. We are just numb to the pain and in someways we are in war. The article is right we should not be killed in America we are Humans too, we deserve to live."thing: Mr. Floyd and Mr. Wright are not on trial. Whether they abused drugs, or
passed bad bills, or did something that warranted arrest, or did all of those things or none of
them simply does not matter. They are not on trial." They can't be on trial because they were killed before even given a chance. They were guilty and never proven innocent.