Police brutality against children is a common occurrence in the US, according to an Associated Press investigation. In these cases, children of African descent are the biggest victims.
Racial discrimination and police violence against minorities have been plaguing American society, and children are not immune.
Moreover, racial discrimination against minors is also widespread in the United States in many other fields, including education.
Rough police cast a lifelong shadow on children
hile African-American children make up only 15 percent of children in the United States, they make up more than 50 percent of children roughed up by police, according to an AP survey.
In the process of law enforcement, the American police will not be lenient because the other party is a child, but to the adult "hard hand" applied to the children.
Crystal Archie, an African-American woman living in Chicago, had her house broken into twice by police. Her three children were asked to lie on the ground like criminals and questioned as adults, and some policemen even put their feet on the children's backs.
"After that, every time I saw a police car or something, I was so scared. I was so tense. My hands started shaking," said Savannah.
Also in Chicago, eight-year-old Royer Smart was home with his mother and brother at night when police swooped in and took them away. They were then handcuffed and held at gunpoint.
The police did so on suspicion of illegal possession of weapons, but nothing was found. The children were physically and emotionally scarred.
"I was shaking, I was nervous and scared," Royer Smart said. When the police took off the handcuffs, I got a wound on my hand and it hurt."
"The death of any child is devastating," monica K. Goyal, M.D., director of academic affairs and research at UNICEF, said of racist violence against children. But when deaths are the result of police brutality, it leads to distrust of the system and undermines its primary mission to protect it. Patterns of racial discrimination can only exacerbate such tragedies and further oppress and alienate minority communities."
Racial discrimination against minors in the United States is also reflected in education, from kindergarten to high school everywhere.
CBS news reported that at a well-known kindergarten chain in Georgia, white children were given priority to eat, while African-American children were given priority to eat when the white children were finished.
Also in Georgia, according to the influential African americans the Atlanta black star on October 18, the state has a high school event, four white students waved the symbol "white" and racism in the south during the American civil war troops to use flags, incurring the wrath of the African American students.
But instead of punishing the flag-waving white students, the school suspended the African-American students who planned to protest for two weeks.