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.
Michael Brown was shot and killed on August 9, 2014, in Ferguson, Missouri which is a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri. Michael Brown, an 18 year old man, was fatally shot by Darren Wilson, a 28 year old police officer. Michael Brown was African-American and Darren Wilson is white. Since the shooting occurred there have been protests both peaceful and violent. These protests revolve around two things, perceived racial profiling and police brutality.
On august 9 2014, an African American 18 year old name Michael brown was killed by Police officer Darren Wilson, in Ferguson with undefined reasons. Michael Brown was a suspect in robbery of a convenience store. Michael brown was walking down the street with his friend Dorian Johnson when he was shot to death by officer Wilson. According to CNN Dorian Johnson stated Brown and himself were walking in the middle of the street when a white male approach them and shouted to get on the sidewalk. The young men refuse then the officer drove forward almost hitting the pair.
"Police Brutality and Race." Gale Student Resources in Context, Gale, 2016. Student Resources In Context, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/ZLECYL059670611/SUIC?u=etiwanda_hsl&sid=SUIC&xid=18f0bfb2 Accessed 2 May 2018. The general statement made by the authors of Gale Research in their article is that police brutality has been around for more than 100 years within the country of the United States.
The accounts of how Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager was shot dead by a white police officer, Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri are still unclear. On August 9th, 2014, Brown and his friend, Dorian Johnson left Ferguson Market and Liquor, where surveillance videos later showed the former stealing some cigarillos. Officer Darren Wilson, traveling alone in his squad car, found them walking in the middle of the street on Canfield Drive. He saw that Michael Brown fit the description of a man suspected in a convenience store theft and asked the two men to step across to the sidewalk. The recollection of the events that ensued is disparate and still a source of mystery and confusion.
Michael Brown case is still presented in the heart and mind of people around the world. Angela Davis manifest how Michel Brown was killed by a police officer. This allows to think carefully about how people who are supposed to protect and save lives are taking lives away. Therefore, Michael Brown is a perfect example of racism. It reflects how people still think about the difference in skin color, race, beliefs and many other categories.
Michael Brown. Everyone has heard this name tossed around on the news, heard the debates and the speculations of what truly happened. This unarmed African American teenager, shot and killed in a wrongful police encounter, was just one of the victims of police brutality this year. Countless other casualties have occurred as a result of similar crimes and most have one specific thing in common. The accused officers in a majority of these cases escaped with no consequences.
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
On August 9, 2014 a man named Michael Brown was shot by a police officer named Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri. Wilson said that it was because he was a suspect in a robbery case and when he approached Brown he punched him and ran away, and that is when he shot him. Except Brown was with one of his friends who said that once Wilson chased after him he stopped in a surrender position, and that is when Wilson shot him. Wilson shot him at least six times. There was not enough evidence to support Brown's friends story so Wilson didn’t get charged.
(Burke). The fact that this man died because of what he looked like is repulsive. This isn’t the first time incidents like this happened. In fact, there has been many cases just like this one, and in the end the person of color always dies while the officer remains free with no charge. Another study shows “So far in 2015, U.S. police killed 776 people, 161 of whom were completely unarmed at the time of their death.”
Police officers are entitled to care and protect the citizens of the country? In recent news, white male police officers have corrupted their use of power and used unnecessary, excessive force against African American males. Police brutality with African Americans resulted in the Walter Scott case, Michael Brown case, Trayvon Martin Case, and Eric Garner case. The following cases are referred to as racist to the public because of white male police officers are doing avoidable acts to African American males. The justifications induced rioting and protesting in the community of the African American males.
Preceding Brown 's murder, it was presumable that any unarmed (and often innocent) black person who encountered a Caucasian authority figure could potentially end up in a horrid situation. Eric Garner, Rekia Boyd, Shantel Davis and Oscar Grant, are just a handful of unarmed African-Americans that were killed by police officers across the United States before the loss of Brown.
Most incidents of police violence which have created a public scandal has the appearance of atrocity, because they are cases of disproportionate use of force. The Rodney King beating in Los Angeles, March 1991 is an archetypal instance. King was caught by police officers after a high-speed chase and was brutally beaten (Karstedt, Loader & Strang, 2013). Local witness George Holiday filmed much of it from his balcony and was later aired around the world, which raised concerns about police treatment of minorities in America (Karstedt, Loader & Strang, 2013). After a three-month trial the officers were acquitted and the outrage sparked the violent 1992 Los Angeles riots.
He was kicked and pounded with near fatal injuries. The next time police brutality was in the national spotlight was in the 1960’s during the civil rights movement where African American demonstrators were arrested, beaten, and lilled by police.
Some of the recent names of the victims that were killed are Eric Garner, Michael Brown, and Alton Sterling. One major fact in all three deaths was not one of the victims were armed with any weapon before losing their life at the hands of a police officer. Also, the grand jury declined to indict officers that were involved in any of the cases. Several individuals around the U.S were killed by police officers that either used excessive force or fatally shoot an unarmed victim.
