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Hundreds of people marched protesting the event that a white police officer pointed his gun at a black 15-year-old girl. In a video showing the event, the police officer swore at black youths, pointed his gun at others, pulled the girl by her arm, and pinned her to the ground with his knees. The black’s march advocated that their skin color was not a crime. The protesters demanded that he should be dismissed and the girl thought that his getting fired was not enough. However, he was called to the sight to make uninvited people leave a swimming pool and there were a number of comments that he had no other way to protect people.
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The problem is whether or not the police officer would have done the same thing as the article described if the girl had not been black. As mentioned above, if there were no other way that the police officer had to protect general citizens, the girl’s skin color had nothing to do with the event. However, judging from that the march actually happened and there were a number of protests, it seemed that many African Americans in the United States have increased a sense of distrust to the police, especially the white police. It is sad to me that problems about people’s skin color in United States have not been yet resolved completely since its foundation.