'Enough is enough': US anti-racism protests

In NYC, there was a huge march during the "Justice for All" rally. 
Cynthia Howell a very angry and upset women states, "Enough is enough. This country cannot still allow these same police practices and let cops get away with it," Howell told Al Jazeera. "We love our loved ones as much as they love the ones they go home to. It's not just an issue of black or white, it's about abuse of authority."
Cynthia Howell's, Alberta Spruill, was a prime example of bad policing. The 57-year-old long-time city government worker died from a heart attack in 2003 after a stun grenade was thrown into her home in West Harlem, a mostly black neighborhood of New York.

Numbers were found in recent data polls and There is plenty of evidence that blacks get the rough end of the law. They make up 13 percent of the US population, but are victims of 26 percent of police shootings, according to the Centre on Juvenile and Criminal Justice. Blacks are shot by police at 2.8 times the rate of white non-Latinos. African Americans live in mostly black neighborhoods with higher crime rates, less-stable households of single mothers, and bad job prospects. Sadly to say only 37% of African Americans have hope in the police force today, whereas there is 59% of whites wh still have confidence.

Obama has stepped in and is taking some action, he announced a $75m plan to help police units buy body cameras and record interactions with the public; the Department of Justice (DOJ) launched civil rights probes into the Ferguson and New York deaths.

Widespread anger over the killings fits into a narrative of deep-rooted racism in the US that stretches back to the slavery-era, through a civil rights struggle, and up to Obama's election as the country's first black president six years ago. Recent data has shown a huge gap int he wealth of the African american race and the whites, A study this week by Pew Research Centre found the wealth of white households was 13 times the average of black households in 2013 - the highest economic gap to have existed between the two communities since 1989. Also seen that the swat team use of weapons has gone up from 3,000 in 1989 to 50,000 times in current times.

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