The law review article I chose was written by a Law Professor regarding police claims on self-defense. The author talks about Zimmerman’s murder trial and how the judge refused to allow prosecution to argue that the neighborhood watch volunteer racially profiled Martin. Zimmerman was charged with second-degree murder for shooting a 17-year-old, Trayvon Martin. The state of Florida filed an affidavit of probable cause stating that Zimmerman profiled and confronted Martin and shot him to death when Martin didn’t commit any crimes. Zimmerman claims he shot Martin in self-defense.
Case Study The white officer, Darren Wilson had shot an unarmed black teenager who was Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri on Saturday, 9 August 2014. Darren Wilson was a police that involved in arrest a drug suspect in 2013. He had suspect that Michael Brown was involved in drug so that he used an excessive force to Michael Brown. After that he told the authorities that Michael Brown had reached for the gun when they were fight.
I am writing a letter to complain about how the homicide case of Emmett Till in August-September 1955, And how the trail of Roy Bryant and J.W. Millam was handled in a white sided manner where most of the jury went on the side or Roy and J.W. just because they were white during the black rights uprising. The entire trial should have been falsified the entire trial for infringement of the case and the jury for purposely have a one sided jury that would highly against the black ethnicity, especially having the being handled in the deep south that is known for been especially/highly racist. I request a mistrial and a redo if you will, on the Emmett Till murder case on a new not as racist judicial system so the family that is still alive can
This teenager was walking along the sidewalk to his home when George Zimmerman, a member of the community watch, called the police and reported a suspicious black boy was roaming the streets. During this time period there had been several robberies in the area. So, instead of waiting for backup from the police, Zimmerman approached Martin on his own and questioned him. There was soon an altercation between the two and Zimmerman eventually shot the teenager. When the police arrived on the scene, Trayvon was already dead.
10- Murder of Natalee Holloway Natalee Holloway's murder took place in May 2005 in Aruba, an island in the Caribbean. Natalee, an 18-year-old American student who was on a graduation trip, disappeared after hanging out with a group of local men at a nightclub. Her body was never found and the case remains unsolved. Natalee Holloway's murder drew international media attention, with frequent reports on the investigations and speculation about what happened to her. Several suspects have been investigated over the years, but none have been charged with her murder.
On the subject of comparing today’s events of African Americans standing up for justice and before the 60’s when they were fighting for justice, I am going to talk about the Trayvon Martin story. Trayvon Martin was an African American teenager who was in a lot of trouble in school having been suspended three times and even was caught with drugs in his book bag by the principal of his school. After he had came from the store buying skittles and an Arizona iced tea according to George Zimmerman (the man who shot Trayvon) he had said that, "This guy looks like he 's up to no good, or he 's on drugs or something. It 's raining, and he 's just walking around. " After he had told this to the dispatcher, he ended up following Trayvon with the intent
The tragedy of Trayvon Martin happened February 26, 2012, in Stanford, Florida. Seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot and killed by George Zimmerman. Martin’s death led to a dispute between the state of Florida and George Zimmerman. Prosecutors in this case accused Zimmerman of racially profiling Martin. The defense took the position that George Zimmerman was using self-defense to protect himself from harm’s way.
Trayvon Martin was shot in the night of February 26, 2012 by George Zimmerman who was a voluntary neighborhood watch coordinator and this was where Trayvon Martin was temporarily living. Trayvon was weaponless and there was a bickering between the two and Trayvon was shot and
“Surrender is no guarantee that an armed police officer will not shoot you,” this quote by Steven Magee symbolizes exactly what victim Trayvon Martin experienced. According to an article written in 2015, the first ever attempt by United States record keepers to properly record the average of 928 individuals were killed by law enforcement over eight contemporary years as compared to 383 which was falsely publicized and miscounted by the FBI. In Lillian Bertram’s poem, “Skittles for Trayvon: A Diminishing Suite in Verse,” she depicts this prominent issue by reenacting a popular case through her poetry. The Trayvon Martin shooting occurred on the 26th February in 2012 when Martin, a 17-year old teenager, was fatally shot by neighborhood watch coordinator George Zimmerman while walking back to home in the gated community where he was momentarily staying. Lillian Bertram who is currently in the process of acquiring her PhD in Literature & Creative Writing at the University of Utah has been recognized for her work that often supports the African American community.
Affirmative Action Reader pg. 244 “ those many in our society that are darker, poorer, more identifiably foreign will continue to suffer the poverty, marginalization, immersion and incarceration.” Statistics are staggering Racial Disparities in Incarceration African Americans constitute nearly 1 million of the total 2.3 million incarcerated population, they are incarcerated at nearly six times the rate of whites, what’s shocking is that one in six black men had been incarcerated as of 2001 and if the trends continues one in three black males born today can expect to spend time in prison during his lifetime. I am for affirmative action, as I believe that when the late President John F Kennedy signed the affirmative action on March 6th 1961,
The Prison Reform Movement was triggered by George Zimmerman not found guilty, which led to public outrage. The minorities make up most of the prisons. “According to the Sentencing Project, which promotes sentencing reform and alternatives to incarceration, the likelihood that a white man will spend time in prison in his lifetime is one in seventeen; for Latino men, the likelihood is one in six, and for black men, it is one in three”(When we fight we win 56). People do not know that the prison system is a way to keep minorities locked away. They do not know that a black or latino person are most likely to be in prison than a white person.
Over 1,134 white male officer related deaths have occurred among African American young males in the year 2015. The most conversed story of an African American young male dying at the hands of a police officer was, Trayvon Martin. Trayvon was born on February 5, 1995, in Florida; he was an average teen who enjoyed athletics and learning. Shortly after Trayvon’s birthday, on the tragic day of February 26, 2012, in Sanford, Florida, a man by the
One example was a young man by the name of Trayvon Benjamin Martin was an African American from Miami Gardens Florida, who, at 17 years old was fatally shot by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch
How would police officers react to one of their own being prosecuted? The public’s response would surely be that because of the unarmed human beings that have been shot and killed by these men, officers were guilty. The hope that African Americans hold on to is that when the justice system analyzes the situations they will see that the officers were in the wrong for using deadly force. Governmental website The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) outlines, “Broadly speaking, the use of force by law enforcement officers becomes necessary and is permitted under specific circumstances, such as in self-defense or in defense of another individual or group.”
According to the article Racism and Police Brutality in America, “Whites believe that Blacks are disproportionately inclined to engage in criminal behavior and are the deserving on harsh treatment by the criminal justice system” (Chaney 484). The justice system has unfortunately followed this idea. The African American race has been a minority in the legal system in the past; however, it has been much worse as of 2015. Some individuals assume it is acceptable to refrain from acknowledging this fact. Racism is an issue in the midst of police brutality, and it should be resolved.
