Places and Forms of Power

I’m going to talk about the notion of place and forms of power. First of all, I would like to define the notion. "Places” could be important buildings or institutions which represent a certain form of power or a symbol of power. In politics and social sciences, power is the ability to influence and contol the behavior of people. In the USA, the police, the authorities exercise their power over the African-American population That's why my question is: what kind of power exercise the authorities over African Americans and what are the consequences? To answer it, we will see in at first  the police powers and secondly the consequences.

First of all, in the United-States, there are police officers who shoot  African-Americans. For example, we see the case of Micheal Brown, an eighteen-year-old black man, who was lethally shot by Daren Wilson, a white Fergusson Police Officer the 9th August 2014. Micheal Brown  was shot by twelve gunshots  while he had his hands up. This was also the case of Traivor Martin, a 17-year-old African American who was shot by George Zimmerman on February 26th, 2012 in Sanford, Florida. We can also see the example of Oscar Grant, 22 who was shot in the early hours of the New Year's Day 2009 by the police officer Johannes Mehserle. Then we can say that some police officers exercise violent powers that sometimes exceed the limits. Indeed, the incident of the Algiers Motel in Detroit on the night of July 25th to 26th, 1967 shows three black teenagers who were beaten and killed by police and nine other people, two white women and seven black men who were severely beaten and then humiliated by members of the Detroit Police Department. For example, in Katheryn Bigelow's "Detroit" film released in 2017, we see how the police abused their power over African Americans at the motel but also during the riot.

Police sometimes exercise abusive powers over African-Americans. These acts lead to consequences such as riots and tensions. Indeed, the death of Micheal Brown for example caused riots in Fergusson with racial tensions  with the intention of protesting against police brutality contrary to the Blacks in the United States. This was also the case after the death of Trevor Martin and Oscar Grant. Several protests and marches took place in many cities for the police to be charged with murder. In fact, the officers of these three murder cases were designated as not guilty because it was self defense. This is why these riots and violence took place in numerous cities. Then, we can see that there are uprising of five days in Detroit because of a police raided in a bar blind-pig. For exemple, in the newspaper, we can see that "the mobs burn and loot 800 stores. 724 poeple has been arrested and are in jail".

In conclusion, we can say that the police in the USA have a certain impunity because most of the time  they are not charged with murder. They exercise abusive power over African-Americans leading to riots and racial tension.

Je pense que ce n'est pas le meilleur que j'ai lu mais c'est correct, ca vaut une bonne moyenne. Il faut que tu l'apprennes en entier parce qu'en fait il n'est pas très long si tu fais plus court c'est sûr que ça ne passera pas.

Pense aussi que tant que c'est toi qui déroule ton texte tu maitrises la parole. Si tu tiens peu de temps tu auras des questions en plus et ce n'est pas sûr que ça t'avantage.