Racial tensions in Los Angeles came into the public eye when a gang of sailors beat up a group of Mexican-Americans wearing “zoot suits” in June of 1943. This led to the mass incarceration of these individuals known as “pachucos”. This initial incident was followed by days of violence in which servicemen roamed the Los Angeles area and physically assaulted any Mexican American they found in zoot suit apparel. The following two nights, the attacks progressed and though a few sailors were arrested while others were warned not to proceed in further assaults, word of the rioting spread and more military personnel from other areas of the city joined in as well. These events were preceded by increased racial tension between Mexican-Americans and Anglo Saxons.
On December 5, 1984, in the heart of New Orleans, the lives of two men made a wrong turn towards death. Ray Liuzza, a 34-year-old businessman, was recently promoted to Vice President of a hotel. To celebrate, he enjoyed the night on Bourbon Street. After a night of celebration, Liuzza returned to his apartment and robbed at gunpoint. He begged not to shoot, but the perpetrator shot Liuzza five times.
Bates mentioned that “Police brutality was rampant. Negroes were beaten unmercifully by the city police of Little Rock at the slightest provocation.” (Bates 34). It was only a matter of time before the innocent death of an African American soldier occurred. Thomas P. Foster was “… one of the most popular and respected soldier on the post” (Bates 34).
In today’s modern society, many feel that is okay for a police officer can kill a man armed with a harmful weapon at any cost. On many news channels, there are various amounts of articles and reports about a police officer committing this act. Even though a police officer has the right to take action against an armed man, this could be argued in many circumstances. In the 2013, Sammy Yatim was a young adult with a mental illness and was armed with a weapon on a streetcar in Toronto. Yatim was confronted by Const.
Tyler Dobbs Adrian Berry English 1301 12-6-14 Proposal To: CCPD board of directors and Chief of Police David Brown, Problem It seems in that in today’s society officers all over the world are thought of as lacking in moral judgment, and often too quick to pull the trigger that can fire the city into anarchy and pandemonium. Officers of the law are sworn to protect it’s citizens .and some calls must be made in a single instance. Those calls could determine life or death for the suspects and all people involved.
John Weaver argues that on August 13, 1906 in Brownsville, TX, black soldiers were accused of shooting up the town. With unreliable statements, false evidence and a racist town, President Roosevelt discharged without honor one hundred and sixty-seven black soldiers. The very next day after the shooting, civilians came out with statements that didn’t add up or were just completely unreliable. Mrs. Leahy stated that she saw the soldiers from thirty-five feet away, Elkins too testified that he saw the Negroes but from sixty-five feet away.
Tamir Rice was a twelve-year-old boy playing in the snow at his local park, making the mistake of waving an air pellet gun at strangers- a mistake that would cost him his life. A bystander made a call to 911, and when the police arrived on the scene, within seconds of exiting the vehicle, Rice was shot. According to an article by the Pittsburgh Tribune, although police have been caught in the act, captured on camera committing a crime, they are not prosecuted 96 percent of the time. November 22, 2014, twelve-year-old, Tamir Rice, was playing and posing with his air pellet gun when a man sitting in the park called 911 to report, “there’s a guy here with a pistol, pointing it at everybody… [The gun] is probably a fake, but you know what,
Furthermore, in the article, The 9/11 of 1859 Tony Horowitz explains, “The first civilian casualty was a free black railroad worker, shot in the back while fleeing the
Capitol on January 30, 1835, following a memorial service for a congressman, a deranged house painter named Richard Lawrence fired a pistol at me from just a few feet away. When Lawrence’s gun misfired, he pulled out a second weapon and squeezed the trigger. That pistol also misfired. I then charged at him with my cane as the shooter was subdued. A subsequent investigation found the pistols to be in perfect working order.
We learned that over the last 40 years the police department of the City of Miami and Miami- Dade County have experienced their share of civil disturbances. To illustrate, there have four cases of race riots between both police departments which led to innovation to be involved in their pursuits to better their responses. These were the race riots in 1968, the Liberty City Riot, 1980, the McDuffie Riot, 1982 Luis Alvarez Riots, and 1989 Loranzo Riots within the Liberty City over town areas. However, the article stated that these riots were resulted by either police shooting of young black men, or thanks to the federal government the deporting of a young Cuban boy. Thus, it was not until the civil arrest of the 1980’s McDuffie Riot which seemed
Suspects were also often shot on the spot without any further
The productions had romanticized violence by displaying both men and women using firearms for hunting, protection, and recreational purposes. In reality, some towns in the West had strict gun control because of the expansion of towns and communities. In Tombstone, Arizona lawmakers had strengthened their ban on weapons to outlaw anyone who carried deadly firearms within town limits. Other towns had required visitors to either legally drop their weapons at governments stables or turn them into the Sherrif. This strict security of deadly weapons in the West is greatly contrastive to our modern day principles of gun control and proves the shift of our histories containment on the topic of violence.
Weapons are deemed as a significant element for military strategies all over the world. Overtime, these illicit weapons distributed to police forces have caused injuries some at minor at levels and whilst some are deemed at extreme levels. Electronic stun devices and other less-lethal weapons are marketed as offering unmitigated benefits to both police and public safety, with this statement there are various problems also associated with these devices such as unnecessary injury and deaths. There are various intentional injuries that police officers are affected by whilst working, the prevalence of injury in the force is rather high. By the 1800s, after departments and police departments distributed weapons and demanded the use of force that
In our society, it is not uncommon to hear media outlets broadcasting violent events involving the use of guns, especially surrounding police officers. Today, the men in badges have taken over news outlets with stories of pepper-spraying protesters, wearing swat gear during peaceful marches, stereotyping civilians, and bursts of violence that sometimes result in death. This has become such a phenomenon, that one must ask what is causing this police misconduct? For starters, the answer is simple, and demonstrated above in Berowitz and LePage’s study. Officers seen with a gun holstered to their hip can instill the urge to become aggressive in certain situations.
Eric Garner was an African-American man killed, on video, by police who put him in a chokehold after he resisted arrest for illegally selling cigarettes. Ismaaiyl Brinsley shot and killed NYPD officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos, allegedly in revenge for the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. Although it is assumed that none of these deaths directly affected Brinsley, he still felt the need to react in fatal violence. Guns have become so common that it seems people often forget what they were originally created for. People associate guns with the “mistrust, defensiveness and aggression” that derive from them (Washington Post).
