It is outrageous for so many black people to be getting murdered by police because children are growing up without parent's due to the killing of their family members, it is also inhumane and unjust for police to kill so many in the first place and have no punishment, and it is not as common to hear about white men being murdered but it is becoming more frequent to hear of white police murdering black individuals which is unacceptable. 

In my visual text you see a crowd of people mostly black, but some white, creating a fire within what is presumably the streets of a city for you see an 18 wheeler behind them. This response is for the unacceptable murder of a black father. This outrage is in response to the murder of this man in Charlotte who had a gun but no intent to use it. It is said that when confronted by police “He makes some imminent threat to them,”(1) but with this man being murdered that supposed threat no longer is relevant at all. In the military there is a procedural and gradual process to even being able to fire a gun at someone. Once there is a clear to fire a shot into someone they are first allowed a warning shot, and it is a very rare situation that it escalates to a kill shot. Despite this in depth very maintained process the military takes a police officer can just gun down a man at the second he feels threatened. What gives them that right? What gives them the right to take a person’s life, a father’s life, or any other life for that matter. 

Additionally, it is becoming more and more frequent for these murders to be of black men. That is all around unjust as it is beginning to appear that because these people are black that they are being viewed as criminals or dangerous. Studies showed in 2014 that 41% of gun owners were non-hispanic white people, and only 19% of these gun owners where black and 20% were Hispanic. (2) Of those 19% you have people, black people, but they are just people and it is inhumane to murder them. Of those 19% you have fathers, doctors, lawyers, and probably any other trivial position you can imagine. Police are taking away these men and women from their families left and right by murdering them in cold blood which is resulting in almost no response to the officer. Three years ago my father was arrested by a trigger ready white officer who my dad recalled had his hand on his gun the entire time during a routine traffic stop, and not even a year later the same officer shot a black man multiple times on broad river road while he was reaching for his wallet in his car. Why was this man able to kill another man when he felt the slightest bit of fear? And what about that situation actually made his murder acceptable? That went to show that even when a black male fully corresponds an officer can murder him out of fear.  

 Not only is it inhumane for these murders to be happening so steadily, but officers are causing so many black people to grow up in a world of white hate. What if I had to spend the rest of my life without my father because an officer murdered him when he felt an instance of fear? The black man previously referenced was asked to present his license and registration and was murdered as he proceeded to attempt to do so, and I always wonder what if that had been my dad? What is humane or just about that?  I ask myself these questions knowing that for many young black children that is a reality they do not get to question, for their parents are already dead and they just have to deal with it. This is causing white hate to grow in those people who have to deal with white officers murdering their brothers, sisters, fathers, and mothers unjustly when they could have handled situations a different way. There is almost no reason to ever take a man’s life, for when you take a life not only are you ending theirs but you are taking that life away from the people that existed in their life. This world we live in can never come together if it keeps getting torn about by events like this. The visual image shows people banded together in response to that murder. To the taking of a father from his children, and a husband from his wife. There may have been many circumstances around the situation, but in the end nobody’s life was at threat for this man just had a gun but no intent to kill. The officers killed him in response, no warning shot, no attempt to take him down, but instead they gunned him down because they are becoming so comfortable and able to do so.

The unacceptable murder of black people is common in our day to day lives now, and it is almost at the point where it is supposed to just be lived with and accepted. I personally find it unacceptable and unjust to know that at any moment a black man or woman could be murdered in cold blood because a police felt fear towards them. I also believe it is unacceptable for police to be able to just escalate to the taking of a life with no legal response as long as they say the reason was that they felt their life was threatened. Furthermore, it is becoming more common to hear of the murder of black men and teenagers rather than any other race, and it is generating not only a bad taste in the mouths of the blacks towards white officers but it is also generating a fear of the police that are supposed to be guardians. It is unacceptable for these men and women who are supposed to be officers of the law to be gunning down people that they fear threaten them when there could have been another solution. I believe my visual rhetoric was an example of black people responding the only way they know how, by generating an uproar to give attention to this unjust situation that consistently persists. 

 