Thursday, June 26, 2014

Police brutality in "the ghetto"

Today im going to  be writing about a boy I discovered named Fred. He  was apart of the wrongly doing of the government , which was moving people out of a neighborhood into a ghetto in Sydney Australia . Inside of this ghetto there are tons of problems that occur, but the one that stood out to  me was the police brutality. Fred stated that his friend was riding around the neighborhood and the police decided to mess with him and in the mist of it they hit him with the police car and he flies onto a gate and dies. police brutality doesn't just occur in one place in the world it also happens here in America. as fred stated "they think we don't know our rights" well A Santa Monica college student is suing the Los Angeles Police Department for use of excessive force, alleging that officers beat and tased him despite the fact that he was unarmed and not resisting arrest.Security footage of the night in question, Oct. 22, shows that Oghogho was holding a beer bottle wrapped in a paper bag. He and his friend were crossing the street when an unmarked police car slowed to approach him.
According to Oghogho, a police officer asked him what he was holding and then pushed him. Oghogho admits to CBS2 that he put a hand on the officer's chest to say, "stop."That's when things got violent. The video shows two police officers on top of Oghogho, using their fists and a baton to deliver multiple blows to his face and body. As the beating continues, more police officers arrive on the scene and surround Oghogho, watching as he is repeatedly slammed against a fence and the ground."The whole time they're doing it, I hear one officer keep punching me in my face," recalled Oghogho. "He's telling me, 'stop resisting arrest, stop resisting arrest, stop resisting arrest.' And all I can say to myself is, 'I'm not resisting.' "The confrontation ended when an officer tased Oghogho.  Overall police brutality is a world wide problem.