Research for political protest
we had several ideas for the political protest
the first being police brutality
- Police brutalitity is a massive issue all over the world, but mostly in the United States of Americaa where police have a tendency to kill unarmed men and women and even several teenagers and young children. There were many police caused deaths in the past few years, with over 150 protests occuring in the wake of the deaths of people due to brute police force. The high profile killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson last August is what made me aware of this issue in the american police force, where police officers were murdering and slaughtering innocent people because they had a gun and badge.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/michael-brown-shooting-ten-things-we-know-or-know-better-now-the-ferguson-grand-jurys-work-is-over-9881046.html
Brown's killer was not charged with the murder and the case is not the only one like it, police have brutalised many American citizens and faced very minimal repercussions.
This topic was extremely emotive and current but then when brain storming how to stage it, the group decided we would not have enough time to it justice and another idea was bubbling on the surface of our general discussions about the media.
We realised that the media is biased, no outlet is innocent of choosing a side and presenting it. And then we looked at topics of discrimination and marginalisation and realised that the topic of "Media Misrepresentation" was current and affected all of us, so we went away and researched what it meant and evidence of it today. We focused soely on the misrepresention of margenalised groups in the media, for exaample black males, teenagers, women
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