Trial to start for Michigan Police officer accused for videotaping beating
by: Tristin Manus 8th period
Summary: The trial of a white former suburban Detroit police officer accused in the videotaped beating of unarmed black motorist Floyd Dent in January is being scheduled this week.The case was one of a number of incidents across the United States that have fueled a national debate on race and unlawful policing. The trial is expected to last about two weeks. Dent, 58 suffered memory loss and severe damage from the beating and has a settlement of $1.4 million. In the video, Melendez can be seen going towards Dent's car with his gun drawn before the door even opens and his partner pulls Dent out. Melendez then wraps an arm around Dent's neck and punches him on the head while his partner handcuffs him, even though Dent posed as no threat to anyone. Melendez has been fired from the police department and has pleaded not guilty to charges of misconduct in office with the intent to hurt this man and faces up to 10 years in prison in convicted. He was fired in April from the Detroit suburb's police force.
Analysis: This is why African-Americans have the #BLACKLIVESMATTER movement, to uplift and advocate for the injustice of our race. This clearly shows that the civil rights movement never ended, but escalated as the years went by especially since the 2010s. To the people who say the blacklivesmatter movement is degrading other races need to educate themselves on these particular instances that clearly shows racism is still thriving. Alllivesmatter is a retaliation to blacklivesmatter, but if alllivesmatter truly mattered, we, as black people wouldn't be going through this predicament or would have the blacklivesmatter movement even existed.
I completely agree!!! All lives do matter... a lot! But people never see the things that people involved in BLACKLIVESMATTER do for everyone but instead see what they do only for the black community which makes them lool "selfish" and that is completely not the case, the media only shows the part that will make things controversal.
ReplyDeleteIt is sickening that there seems to be a random increse in police brutality towards people of color. This innocent man, for example, did absolutely nothing to recieve the beating he got. It's sad that after all these years there is still an unsettling amount of racism present in the U.S.
ReplyDelete-Victoria Garza