Reading Comprehension B

Slavery gave America a fear of black people and a taste for violent
punishment. Both still define our criminal-justice system.

4. Three-strike laws is a criminal sentencing structure for criminal people who have repeated
several times violent acts and have been caught. It consists in giving harsher punishments on
them such as increase their time spent being imprisoned.

Broken window policing is a model of policing appeared . In the 1990s .The aim is to reduce
small crimes such as vandalism to avoid the spreading of disorder and so bigger crimes.

5. Black americans are victims of a « presumption of danger and criminality » in many

context. Indeed, they have higher rate to be controled by police while driving. Moreover,
because of TV shows and series, they are even more seen as dangerous and criminal.

Violence in Minneapolis is rooted in the history of racist policing in

America.

1. The author draws several connections between the slavery era, the post-Civil War
period, the early 20th century, the civil rights era, the 1980s and 90s and the
recent deaths of black Americans at the hands of the police. Indeed, She noticed
that even if the era is not the same there are similarities.
In the slavery era, black enslaved people’s lives were organized and control by
white men.
Then, in the Post-Civil war period, Black codes were made by police to restrain
black people rights and choices. Indeed, the y can’t go where they wanted to.
Moreover, there are white vigilante groups who commet violents acts towards
black people and use the excuse of wanting to maintain « law and order ». The
white mob violence continues by increase in the early 20th century and during
the civil rights era and became worse in certain points. Indeed, white mob and
police became allies and continue control black people’s lives and movements to
prevent them to have rights and being treated equal to white people. Because of
that, lynching emerged and became tolerated and even normalized among police
officers and white mob.
In the 1980s and 1990s, things continue to get worse. Indeed, black people get
arrested and sometimes even killed by police officers and didn’t get any
consequences for their acts.
Nowdays, the same thing happened because black people get as much killed as in
the 1980s and 1990s .

All the points common between these era is that black people's lives have alway
been controled through different forms. It prevents them to have any rights and
security. Moreover, they have to bear the white mob violence that didn’t get
punished and get even tolerated by police officers who lynch black people too.

2.Does the death of George Floyd is a 21st century lynching ?

The death of George Floyd is similar to