Lately in today’s society, there has been a numerous amount of incidents where African
American males have been killed by Caucasian male police officers. Police officers have been
committing these crimes times before now except for the fact that they are just now only getting
caught. Many people believe that they shouldn’t have been charged and others may think
otherwise. Furthermore, many also believe that the cause of these incidents could have been
motivated by racism. However, the arguments I will portray within this paper are that the officer
should have been charged and that this was not a racial incident.
The police officer should have been charged because the video presented enough
evidence, he choked Eric Garner to death, and Eric Garner was not armed. There was someone
videoing the entire incident between Eric Garner and the police officers. Eric Garner was
supposedly selling cigarettes five dollars each loosely. However, Eric Garner was first off
