A Brief History of Police Brutality and Racial Profiling
Police Brutality. For many, those two words conjure up images long past. We think of haunting photographs from the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s — police clubbing black protesters with batons or knocking them down with fire hoses. We think of the grainy footage of Rodney King being beaten by police in 1992 — barely 15 years ago, but ancient history to most of us.
However, the ugly truth is that the issue of police brutality is all too current. Many of us saw the chilling YouTube video of UCLA student Mostafa Tabatabainejab being repeatedly tasered by campus police last November for the supposed “crime” of not showing his student I.D.
LAURA TAYLOR in The Cornell Daily Sun