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Chapter 1- Killing the future: The Death of black life
Chapter 1 is broken into five different topics about the social injustice of police brutality. -
Making Wounds Speak
Losing someone you love destroys you especially if it their life was taken. Mothers have had to speak, protest and demand justice for their children whose lifes were taken to young. In decemeber 2014, 10 mothers who lost their children to police brutality gathered together in front of the supreme courthouse to rally their death and not seeing justice. All of these people had to take their pain of losing a loved one and turn it into motivation to seek justice. -
From Slave Chains to Handcuffs
The question is asked what is the difference between slave chains and hancuffs.The author disscusses the history of slaves and explains how history is begining to repeat itself. Africans were brought over by gun point and killed for disobeying and police are trying to control the world with guns and kill if disobeyed. -
The Thin Blue Line
The author addresses that after slavery white people found any reason to arrest a POC and being in jail became the new slavery. The line between "Black" and "white" has been redrawn of criminal and citizen. But we as a society never address any of this because it is not broadcasted everyday for everyone to see. Now instead of jail it is being killed and the list continues to grow. -
To Protect and Serve
Since 2015 more than 300 people have been unarmed and killed by police. The police tend to circle more around poor black neighborhoods than the suburbs. The Question becomes are they here to protect us? The author goes into a conversation they had with a mother whose son was stopped by police constantly for being black and dressing "suspiciously". Our justice system is failing what steps should we take to make it better? -
Gregory
The author ends the chapter discussing with a mother of her son named gregory and his death. She explains how her son would have lived if the cops called the ambulance and didnt leave him a block away from the hospital to bleed out. The chapter ends with the affects death have on a family especially when it was murder and no justice was found. -
Killing the Future
Children are our future and if kids are watching their parents get arrested or get killed that puts a mental freeze on them and can cause them to go down a rough path. Also when kids are buillied by the police they are seen as disposable and soon stop trying to make a change in their life. Police have a huge part on our lives, and it is up to us to push them to make a change for the better