Justice for Michael Brown

Justice for Michael Brown

 

 

On August 9^th of this year in Ferguson, Missouri, a young man named Michael Brown was shot several times until he was pronounced dead by a police officer namedDarren Wilson with no reason behind it. Michael was unarmed and had his lastbreath at the age of eighteen.

After this news broke out, a huge controversy started between the black communities against the white community and police officers. This controversial issue led to protester’s emotions to get in the way of justice for Michael Brown. Protests were quickly shut down because violence escalated and curfews were made.

It has been said that before the shooting took place, Michael Brown and his friend had robbed a convenient store hours before. Authorities has presented Michael as a juvenile delinquent. However, his family made sure that the world knew that Michael had no criminal background. Michael graduated from Normandy High School in St. Louis of 2014 this year,and was scheduled to attend classes at a trade college calledVatterott College in Missouri.

 The world needs to know that justice needs to prevail for this young man and his family. Nobody should have to experience this brutality that “authority” has been doing to the people. In fact, there has been 13 more cases like ‘MichaelBrown’ that has taken place in the last month. One of the cases had involved apolice officer shooting fifteen rounds into an 18 year old boy because hesupposedly had a gun. But witnesses said he didn’t have a gun at all, and thatthe boy had just released from a psychiatric hospital. This brutal story wastaken place at Ottawa, Kansas. And still there is no action that is taking place to stop this cruelty.

Although justice is necessary for Brown’s family, however, some may feel that shooting Brown was justified as self-defense. In no shape or form, shooting Michael Brown was self-defense because Brown was unarmed and witnesses say that Brown had his hands up, when Officer Wilson opened fire. Can you just imagine seeing and officer point a gun at you and have people watch you get executed with no legitimate reason. Not one shot but six shots killed him this young man, and people want to justify this officer’s action as self-defense.

If no sentence is ordered to Officer Wilson, we are not going to have peace with communities that support and advocate justice for Michael Brown and his family. We need to take a stand and show police officials that if this brutality that these officers continue, then society will take matter into their own hands and make sure that these officials hear what the people are saying. If we do not come up with a peaceful solution, we are at self-destruction.