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Tulsa Shooting Research Paper

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This article tells the story of a white police officer shooting a black man in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Terence Crutcher, the man who was shot, fathered four children and according to his family was a “devoted Christian.” Crutcher was described by police as a “big bad dude” seconds before being shot.
Days after the incident, it was reported that “officers discovered PCP in Crutcher’s vehicle.” Crutchers family and lawyer have since pointed to the announcement as serving as a type of immoral intellectual justification for the unlawful shooting of Crutcher.
Lately, the death of Terence Crutcher has garnered even more public interest after “police shot and killed a black man in Charlotte on Tuesday afternoon.” At a conference on Wednesday, Attorney General …show more content…

Mainly, the shooting highlights how our government only has the power to control de jure segregation, while de facto segregation requires a societal wakeup rather than a governmental one.
For instance, when the US Government escorted the Little Rock Nine into school, it didn’t suddenly change the way the local white community felt about African Americans. In other words, just because they were there, didn’t mean they were welcome: the government couldn’t possibly change that.
I believe the current police shootings in America are much the same. While protesters and movements call for governmental action to inspire change, there’s actually very little the government can do to alter the mindsets of individual police officers aside from enforcing stricter punishments. There simply exists no law that can instantly alter a person's deeply rooted psychological mindset. In the end, with the rapidly diversifying demographic of the United States, social change will come, just not

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