Why has our society become desensitized to racial issues such as police brutality against young black men ?

Answer 1

Honestly? I don't think our society (if you mean American society) has ever become sensitive to police brutality against young black men. Or black males of any age.

However, it may seem like there has been a sudden shift in occurances of police brutatlity because they (police force) are getting worse in their out-of-control behaviour and actions. The cases of needless deaths of non-violent victims are occuring almost on a daily basis. It is dawning on people how corrupt the department, as a whole, has become. Officers shoot unresisting, unarmed men in the back now and it's outrageous and WRONG.
It is white and black men, white and black females.

It's disturbing. And it's scary. They're getting away with it, and being paid to do it. As a citizen of the general public, you don't even have to make 'a wrong move' to get shot to death today.

An 18 year old drunken boy was staggering to his own front door to get away from a frightening police squad and they shot him in the back 3 times because .... because why?
He was incoherently drunk, young, disoriented, scared and trying to get away from being pelted with beanbags. They had no provocation to shoot him but they did.
He was a white male.

In my opinion, it's not about race anymore (though for some officers it certainly is). For ALL police officers, it's about power now. If you do not surrender yourself completely to a police officer and show to them you are at their mercy, they will do whatever they have to, whatever they want to MAKE YOU. When their lights turn on, your rights are turned off.

Ever read the side of their vehicle?
To Protect and Serve.
But it isn't to protect and serve us. lol
It is to protect and serve themselves.
Who are they?
They're employed by government.
And that's exactly who they're going to protect.
They are merely an end result of our own government - which, clearly, is out of control and frankly, not at all ours anymore.

Answer 2

One part of the answer is that society is being numbed to all brutallity of any kind. Another is that while the media makes a big deal of video of young black men being beaten or handled to roughly during an arrest the same media also shows a non-stop stream of young black men acting like thugs and criminals, and this is just in the news. The entertainment and sports media shows an even more constant stream of actors, singers, and athletes of color acting in many cases worse than the actual criminals caught on video [think america's wildest police videos] in the commision of real live crimes. Further research on the subject would require less than an hour of observing any metropolitan area mall. The sheer number of black youths dressed like thugs and gangsters and walking around visibly hostile and angry surely blocks our society from seeing the hard working, honest, productive people of color that surely must exist in some great numbers or blacks would be insane to continue to immigrate to this country. By the way, I am a white male that has worked in the resturaunt and tavern business for 23 + yrs. I live in an area that does not have many people of color but am near enough to a large metro area to have what I think is a rather unusually unbiased view of this particular issue. Adding this last part as a question to the asker. If a black man calls a white man a honky or some such racial epitath while beating him why is there no known case of this being prosecuted as a hate crime?

Answer 3

Look at the history of lynching in this country. When has this nation ever been sensitive to such issues involving Black men?
Remember BLACK WALL STREET, and many other Race Riots of the 1920's, '30's, and '40's? (Innocent Blacks being maliciously attacked by Racist Whites)

http://www.blackwallstreet.freeservers.com/

Remember ROSEWOOD:

http://www.displaysforschools.com/history.html

Historicaly, the USA has never been sensitized to unprovoked violence towards blacks in general, and towards black men in patricular.

Peace

Answer 4

I think a big part of it is that many young black men don't have respect for the law, and try to flee from the police and resist arrest. When people comply with the police there is no reported brutality.

Answer 5

Almost 100% of those issues are total bullshit. Cops taking down a violent crack addict brandishing a gun are most definitely not engaging in "police brutality".

Answer 6

I'm sick and tired of hearing about police brutality against African American's. There are plenty of black cops, you know. Why don't you ask them?

Answer 7

Have you learned nothing from the days of Martin Luther King?

Answer 8

tell your black men to stop making themselves such an easy target(tell them to stop commiting crimes so the police dont have to do that).

Answer 9

Because the race card is way overused, and examples of racism by minorities are completely ignored.

Answer 10

Perhaps the rampant criminal behavior warrants police brutality!