This article is about the fact that half of the citizens that are killed by police have a disability and that the media organizations aren’t reporting that the victims are disabled but are reporting the most common race that are victims of police brutality which is African Americans. The article discusses how the word “disability” is not getting big media attention as black people do because it never recognizes the aspects and it is not commonly reported. According to the article, “Media coverage of police violence fails to recognise or report the disability element when Americans are injured or killed by law enforcement, resulting in their stories be segregated from the issue in the media” stated by David M Perry, an Illinois University professor and Lawrence Carter-Long, a disability rights activist when they did a report on half of all disabled people killed by police that was published to bring attention and to spread awareness. Police brutality doesn’t only happen in the U.S, it happens around the world. For example, the U.K happens to have the same issue. “Eight of the 17 people who died in, or following, police custody in England and Wales in 2014-15 were identified as having mental health issues. Ten of the overall total recorded deaths had involved restraint”, according to Independent Police Complaints Commission Figures. This demonstrates that the country has the big amount of data as the U.S in police brutality incidents involving the disabled and it doesn’t really get any media attention as well. This article relates to my research question by indicating that the police brutality incidents that involve disabled people rarely mentioned in the media and that there are details that answers my research question.
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