Breanna Rountree Mr. Kirby Principles of Law 28 September 2015 Summary of Michael Brown Shooting At 12:00 o 'clock on Saturday, August 9, 2014, Michael Brown was killed. Shortly before this tragic event, Brown and Witness 101 robbed Ferguson Market and Liquor of several packs of cigarillos. When the store manager tried to stop him, Michael Brown used his size as an advantage and left.
I believe that Darren Wilson did not legally kill Michael Brown. The two black men, including Michael Brown are at fault for the incident. Wilson only followed his duty as a police officer. However, Brown responded inappropriately, leading to his death. One morning in Fegurson, Missouri, Darren Wilson was on his way to lunch as he spotted two black men on the streets.
One of the most infamous situations, which was one of the first highly publicized police brutality cases, was the murder of Michael Brown. Brown was an 18-year-old man from Ferguson, Missouri. On August 9, 2014, Brown and a friend were walking on a street when a police officer, Darren Wilson, told the two to get on the sidewalk. After this, a scuffle between Brown and Wilson ensued- the details of this scuffle are still to this day unclear. Three minutes from the time that Officer Wilson confronted the boys, Brown was shot dead (Dodge.)
The article “The police officer who killed 15-year-old Jordan Edwards has been charged with murder” was written by German Lopez and Published on Vox in May 5, 2017. It focuses on the death of Jordan edwards who was shot in the back by a police officer. Jordan Edwards gave the movement Black Lives Matter a new spark with the death of an innocent young teen. Thousands came forward in protest to see the police officer who took Jordan's life. The officer claimed that the car was coming towards him and was being hostile.
The grand jury was not able to go off of witness statements being they became contradicting to each other. Witnesses stated that “Officer Wilson had first got out of his vehicle and then began firing, while another witness had stated that Wilson had stayed inside the vehicle and began firing. ”(Eyder Peralta, Krishnadev Calamur, 2014). This is essential because it proves that witness statements are not always reliable, a lot of the time the witness becomes flustered and only recalls what they feel happened when the situation occurred. When interviewed by George Stephanopoulos on ABC news, Darren Wilson stated that “Michael brown had started to attack Wilson; witnesses stated that Wilson had pulled Michael Brown into his vehicle, but Wilson soon responded with, that would be a violation of my training.
In November of 2014, a man, Gary Fellenbaum, and his girlfriend, Jillian Tait Thursday, are charged with murdering the girlfriend’s 3-year old son. Authorities were called under the false pretense of an unresponsive child, when EMTs arrived, 3-year old Scott McMillan was reported to have suffered from bruises, lacerations, and puncture wounds all over his body. Fellenbaum, Tait, and Fellenbaum’s wife, Amber, confessed to police, “…that the little boy had been beaten with blunt and sharp objects, whipped, taped to a chair with electrical tape and beaten, hung up by his feet and beaten, leading to his death.” (Unknown). Tait later explained to the police that the beatings began because Scott refused to eat his breakfast.
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, you are here because one person in this courtroom decided to take law into her own hands. The defendant, Mrs. Dominique Stephens, murdered the man that she vowed to love. This sole act by the defendant is violation of all morals and her husband’s right to live. Afterwards, she even felt guilty about this violation of justice and called the cops on herself, and she later signed a written statement stating that she is guilty of the murder of Mr. Donovan Stephens. Then the defendant later recanted this statement and said that she only killed Mr. Stephens in self defense.
On the afternoon of August 9, 2014, a white Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson shot and killed Micheal Brown, an unarmed teenager, in Missouri. The disputed circumstances of the shooting and the resultant protests and civil unrest received considerable attention in the U.S. and abroad, and sparked a crazy debate about law enforcement's relationship with African-Americans. Before the shooting, Brown robbed a nearby convenience store, stole several cigarillos, and shoved the store worker. Wilson had been told on the monitor of the robbery. Although Wilson's initial contact with Micheal wasn’t going for his robbery, Wilson said that he recognized that the two men matched the robbery suspect descriptions.
We all feel sorry for Michael Brown. He was an innocent black teenager, shot and killed by a police officer in Ferguson . The killing of Michael Brown prompted protest that roiled the whole area, Ferguson for weeks. There were riots on the streets, windows at shops were broken and the shops were looted. All over the area black people participated in the riots because they felt that the police saw the blackness as a threat.
Emmett Till or Tillman will never be forgotten. Emmett Till was a little boy. Who was sent to Money, MS from Chicago, IL? To visit his relatives. His mother letting her only baby leave not knowing he wasn’t going to come back.
January 1972 in Gloucester, England, Fred West and Rosemary “Rose” Letts were secretly married. In June of that same year Rose gave birth to their second daughter. The growing family moved to a new home, 25 Cromwell Street, which was much larger than their previous home. The new home had enough rooms for all their children, space for renters, and even a cellar that was used as a torture chamber. This new family home also had rooms fitted with peepholes for Fred to watch while his wife Rose was working as a prostitute.
Racial Tension in Michael Brown 's case On August 9, 2014, eighteen-year-old Michael Brown was shot by Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri. The shooting caused protests and has drawn the world’s attention because Michael Brown was an unarmed black man while Darren Wilson is a white police officer. People believe
People rebel when no justice being served. It is understandable why people act a certain way. Have you ever loved someone more than yourself? A person is your biggest pride and joy to be safe? Can you imagine how it feels to no longer have your pride and joy with in a split second, due to the way they look?
Michael Brown was caught on footage stealing. Darren Wilson seen the two men that he thought matched The robbery suspects so he backed his car to block them. Officer Wilson stopped brown and brown was unarmed turned his face to officer Wilson and moved towards him. Wilson fired at brown
A cause of corruption, discrimination and inequality, the cause of death of many innocent lives. Throughout the long history, racism has been a subject of much debate, most notably in The United states of America. There have been numerous actions that suggest that racial inequality might still be intact with America’s modern society, such as the extreme violence shown by the police that has been roaming all over social media recently. This has eventually led to the creation of the controversial “Black lives matter” group. “Black lives matter” is an organization is an international activist campaign that disapproves of violence towards the African -American community.
