Story

I realized i already talked about those percentages in my first post so i will give you a story about a man who was "driving" a horse drawn wagon and he was holding up traffic on a road so a police officer went up next to him and over the loud speaker told him to move over to let cars pass. This loud noice frightened the horses causing them to not obey their "driver". this angered the police man and once the man got his horses to stop, the officer pulled the man off his wagon and started beating him infront of the man's 15 year old nephew. The police officer was a white man and the man in the wagon was black. this is just one of many examples of police brutality influenced by race

Racial Influence on Police Brutality

Some percentages caught my eye about how different the numbers are according to race when comparing a police department to the public they are supposed to protect. A few years ago, LA's population was 40% non-white yet 61% of the LAPD is white. Also, in New York, whites make up less than 50% of the population when the NYPD is 75% white. This brings about a lot of controversy on and off the streets in these major cities when it comes to police brutality.

Beginnings of Police Brutality

In 1991 a commission released findings concerning brutality in the LAPD. This sparked the investigation of more than a million documents of similar cases. Most major US cities have had reports of police brutality. In San Fran., seven protesters at a 1988 United Farm Workers demonstration were beaten; they eventually won a $24 million lawsuit.
Most police brutality encounters are affected by many racial, ethnic, or economic divisions in our society. For example, 40% of LA's population is nonwhite but 61% of the LAPD are white officers.

Already Gone

I chose this song because i recently heard it while going through youtube and the beat caught my attention. I am not ashamed of listening to this "girly" style of music because sometimes the lyrics really can be good. In this song it talks about love between a man and a woman but it can be seen in a different way... like how I heard it. Its saying that they cant both be going in the same way, down the same road, so someone has to go. They need to forget about each other because there is someone better for the both of them. This stood out to me because we may think that we should be going down one road possibly with someone else but that's not always what happens. Different roads will be shown to us along with different people to walk with us and go through the ups and downs.