Also police are not being trained to do what they are supposed to be doing correctly and are stereotyping People of Color by assuming they are armed.
This is harming us as a society and something needs to be done about this, there is absolutely no way that I can sit here and not say anything
This shows that throughout the years there are more People of Color in Oakland being targeted by police and the number has been increasing.
This article only highlights the issue that currently occurs in Oakland, but think about what happens worldwide.
Furthermore I interviewed Angel Calmo who lived in Oakland for about 16 years he explains, “Police go way too far because they think their in control of society and we as People of Color and taxpayers we pay them to protect the community and serve the country with respect but police are not doing any of that instead killing people who didn’t do anything wrong”(Calmo).
This reminds me that the people that are not affected by police brutality tend to not pay much attention to it.
Lastly, police are stereotyping People of Color by assuming that they are dangerous.
Due to their assumptions, this results in pain for us. Most of the time they are not even armed.
This shows that police overuse their power by going too far and doing something wrong.
This is also something that is too normalized, I believe that there should be some type of penalty held against them for such.
To begin, police brutality is a problem in Oakland because many police officers target mostly all People of Color because of stereotypes and there is no process to discipline police officers who act wrong.
Stereotypes have always been a downfall to the colored community because of the actions that others have done or even the clothes we wear.