Structural Racism & Police Brutality in America

That was Tuesday, May 26, 2020. I received a call from the American 911 Emergency Response Team. Minneapolis police officers arrested George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, after a deliberate employee called 911, accusing him of buying cigarettes with a counterfeit $ 20 bill. Seventeen minutes later the first squad car arrives at the scene. The Minneapolis police arrested George Floyd, and an officer of the Minneapolis police carried out a non-humanitarian act. That is, Minneapolis police officer kneeling on Floyd's neck as an act of racism 

 .But somehow George Floyd died unfortunately .But an unarmed black man was captured on a bystander's video lying face down in a Minneapolis street, gasping for air and groaning. "I can't breathe," he muttered several times, while a white police officer kneeled on his neck for a number of minutes. Shortly after, the man was dead and four officers were fired from their posts

. Here are some of the problems that we and all of us can have .

* Is this the first injustice done to black people?

 - Of course not.

* Have you ever had to deal with blacks before?

-Yes

* What are they?

-Between 2013 and 2019, police killed 7,666 people in the United States, according to data compiled by Mapping Police Violence, a research and advocacy group. On May 25, 2020 at 9:25 pm (02:25 GMT, May 26), George Floyd, a 46-year-old resident of Minnesota, became yet another victim of police brutality and was unarmed while in police custody. Floyd's death has prompted protests of protesters to march in cities around the country demanding justice and an end to police violence.

The number of police killings in the US disproportionately affects African Americans. Despite only making up 13 percent of the US population, Black Americans are two-and-a-half times as likely as white Americans to be killed by police.

The map below shows how disproportionate these killings are across the US's 50 states.

Unsurprisingly, the three largest states - California, Texas and Florida - have the highest total number of killings by black people. Once these figures are adjusted for the population size and demographics, nearly every state, African Americans face a higher risk of being killed by white Americans than by police officers.

In Utah, the African Americans comprise just 1.06 percent of the population but they account for 10 percent of police killings over the past seven years - a disproportional rate of 9.21 times. In Minnesota,

Black Americans are nearly four times as likely to be killed by law enforcement as 20 percent of Black people killed, compared to only 5 percent of the overall population

It is a fact that no one can conceal the fact that blacks have been subjected to injustice before. After the shooting of a black man named George Floyd, the majority of Americans across the United States took to the streets, shouting slogans against the police action. The protesters were chanting slogans at the time of George Floyd's death. As a result of the protests against racism, blacks and people from all over the world supported the protests. And youtube and Google companies supported it. All these actions showed the world one thing:

"Racism and casteism should not be allowed to emerge again." Against Racism, Against Casteism ...

Let us live together as one human race.