Racism in The United States Justice System The criminal justice system is racist. Depending upon your racist and now days’ religion you might feel the same way. African Americans, Latinos and Muslims are targeted and disciplined in a much more hostile way than white people. It is sad that the United States legal system and laws are really not designed to protect all people of race or religion. The United State legal system and laws that was created and established to treat all men and women equally is a fraud. How is it that a government that was created for the people of every race did not allow African American to be a part of that committee that help put these laws and policy in place. Majority of the induvial who made up the party were
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It seems as if African American struggle for equal rights as citizen is still ongoing. For example, George Zimmerman an armed neighborhood watch security guard shot and killed an unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman did not follow direction when the 911dispatcher told him to stay in his car. Instead he gets out of his car and shot and killed the young man. Instead of him getting arrested and charged he was acquitted on self-defense. Marissa Alexander, a battered African American woman fired a warning shot at her barbarous husband during an encounter at her home in Florida. She did not harm or injured anyone, but according to Terrance Hamm Georgetown University Alumnus “Circuit judge James H. Daniel denied Alexander the same “stand your ground” rule that was exercised in Zimmerman’s …show more content…
justice system now Muslim’s are experiencing the racial profiling, and it is ongoing. Ever since the attacks on the U.S.A Pentagon, the World Trade Center know as 9-11 by Muslims, and Arabs. They are now looked at differently. Police Officers, shopping mall security guards, airport security even pilots on an airline have harassed or questioned them do to their ethnicity. According to …………. “one document that was highlighted, a 2009 memo in the FBI’s Detroit field office sought permission to collect information on Middle East terrorist groups in Michigan, noting that: “Because Michigan has a large Middle Eastern and Muslim population, it is prime territory for attempted radicalization and recruitment by these terrorist groups.’’ There goes our justice for
It seems as if African American struggle for equal rights as citizen is still ongoing. For example, George Zimmerman an armed neighborhood watch security guard shot and killed an unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman did not follow direction when the 911dispatcher told him to stay in his car. Instead he gets out of his car and shot and killed the young man. Instead of him getting arrested and charged he was acquitted on self-defense. Marissa Alexander, a battered African American woman fired a warning shot at her barbarous husband during an encounter at her home in Florida. She did not harm or injured anyone, but according to Terrance Hamm Georgetown University Alumnus “Circuit judge James H. Daniel denied Alexander the same “stand your ground” rule that was exercised in Zimmerman’s …show more content…
justice system now Muslim’s are experiencing the racial profiling, and it is ongoing. Ever since the attacks on the U.S.A Pentagon, the World Trade Center know as 9-11 by Muslims, and Arabs. They are now looked at differently. Police Officers, shopping mall security guards, airport security even pilots on an airline have harassed or questioned them do to their ethnicity. According to …………. “one document that was highlighted, a 2009 memo in the FBI’s Detroit field office sought permission to collect information on Middle East terrorist groups in Michigan, noting that: “Because Michigan has a large Middle Eastern and Muslim population, it is prime territory for attempted radicalization and recruitment by these terrorist groups.’’ There goes our justice for