Cynthia Neves
9/26/18
Journalism I
Minorities are targets of police brutality in schools

In Philadelphia a police officer assaulted a black student. The student threw an orange at a wall and he got put in a choke whole. Since that happened they know want to remove police officers from schools. African American students are now scared to act a certain way in the hallway and are scared in their own school.
Students and parents want to remove the officers and add in counselors so that students can work out their issues. Yet other schools want officers because of school shooting. To keep kids safe but we also have teachers that could do that. They spend 30 million dollars on cops in a year. That money can go to more important school things. Yet officers have assaulted 24 students in the past 2 years.
Black students are three and a half more times likely to be arrested more than white students. That shapes a prison pipeline and criminalizes minorities at a young age.
Education advocates feel that police officers don’t protect brown and black students. They say that because this keeps happening. Yet no one is doing anything about it.