Dear Miss Birbalsingh
Your article on racial violence is a joke. How can you a minority, use a minority to attack a whole race.
In your article it is clear that you feel that the police are not the problem with crime From me reading other articles about the police I can tell you that this statement is not true. The ipcc( independent police complaints commission) are meant to review the police but with figures like 333 people dying in police custody and not one police officer being prosecuted, I feel that they are not doing their job. Maybe if it had been a few then you could say that there are many reasons why but the number is so large that I feel that must being something wrong.
Another reason why I feel that your statement is wrong is because of police stops and search, I don’t have the problem with the police stopping and searching people but it’s how and who they do it to. The police officers choose who they to stop and normally it is black men and women this is wrong if they are going to stop and search people then it should be a everyone who is in and around that area not just their selected few. In addition to this when they stop and search they do it incorrectly. They do it to provoke a response, this would then lead to the person getting arrested. This could then again lead to another police custody death. This led to the riots because many families have been losing their love ones from them going into custody and when mark Duggan was shot I felt the communities tolerance was up and this time they choose to react and they choose to riot in a way which action had to be taken because it’s clear other methods don’t work.
At the beginning of your article who asked the question what colour is mark Duggan and here you was trying to say that black people are a criminal race, I highly disagree with this because not every person in the black race are criminals, don’t get me wrong there are people In the black community who are involved in criminal activity but this doesn’t give you the right to say that the entire black race are criminals, for all we know mark Duggan may not have been involved in criminal activity, as you say he may just have been in the wrong place at the wrong time. Every race has criminals that’s how life is so to place criminal behaviour in one race I feel is completely wrong.
For me I can see that you are justifying the polices actions because of the colour of mark Duggan. This tells me that if mark Duggan was white then you would have joined the riots to protest against the police. This would cause the riots because of the nature of black people, we are using to taking actions into our own hands and this was forced into our system by the whites so if there is anyone to blame for the riots are the whites, so I feel you should change the idea in which you are trying to put across.
Similar to you miss Birbalsingh, there is a man named starky who also feels that being black is to be a gangster or to be violent. I feel that this is wrong to say and the reason for this is because you can’t put violence on a race or a colour. You can’t do that because this says that everyone which that feature has the ability to be violent but from police statistics and figures it shows that people who are not black are also involved in violence, even certain figures show that other races have bigger part to play in certain scenes. From my own knowledge I feel that the reason in which why black people result to violence is because of the white race who made black people slaves, and for the black to change they had to resort to violence to become free. This is wrong because your saying if you’re not black then you’re not a criminal, this is wrong because if you look at people like Dylan roof and Adam Lanza who both were not black but killed 37 between each other.
React!