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Kim Allen

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Amanda Reyes

October 9, 2015

Police Brutality

Police brutality is a human rights violation and it occurs in almost every community. The number of civilians that have died or allegedly brutalized at the hands of our police department, has increased over the past several years. The $150 million would be used to provide police officers across the nation with body cameras.  The cameras would serve as a form of accountability for both police officers and civilians, in an effort to eliminate or significantly minimize the number of deaths which has occurred at the hands of our police department.

Police brutality can happen in many different ways. Physical brutality is the most obvious forms of police brutality. The stories of Michael Brown, Eric Garner and Sandra Bland are just a few of the countless situations that could have possibly been avoided, if police officers were being held accountable at all times, with the use of body cameras. Each time a precious life is taken, families are broken and left to pick up the pieces. Unfortunately, the mothers and fathers that have been killed, are no longer there to provide for their children and parents are left with big empty holes in their hearts and no true answers as to what really happened.

A new law was recently passed, The Huffpost reports, “California police will have to publicly 

report race and other demographic characteristic of any person stopped by officers under a new law 

intended to respond to high-profile deaths of unarmed black men and charges of racial profiling. The 

law, authored by state Assemblywoman Shirley Weber (D) and signed into law by Gov. Jerry 

Brown (D) over the weekend, expands the state's formerly vague definition of racial profiling to 

include “identity profiling” based on gender, national origin or other characteristics protected 

against discrimination. The law requires law enforcement agencies to record the racial and 

identity characteristics of any person stopped or detained.”