Annotated Bibliography On Police Shooting

Annotated bibliography
St. Louis Protests: A Guide to the Police-Shooting Case This article goes into how another case of police shooting and how the police was acquitted with all murder charges. This case happened in 2011 but the case was just finished this past weekend, first this case was about a suspected drug dealer who was fatally shot, by the cop because the cop feared for his live and also said that he saw the suspect with a gun. Also it brings up a good question why was this former officer charged with first degree murder when they usually know it’s hard to convict a police man for first degree, at times it’s even better to charge them with manslaughter which is a lot better than charging an officer with murder. Another thing that this article mentions is that this drug deal started on foot but the suspect ended running back to his car which started a high speed chase, which the officer said I saw a gun, cops are trained to use force when they see a suspect with a gun or even if they believe it’s a gun they are likely to shoot. Which also mentions that the suspect was reaching for something, again this is my problem the police are always in the right from the justice system standpoint, because it always appears that cops are told to shoot first when any movement is seen by a suspect. The author also talks about how the protestors have been peaceful and how they …show more content…
The relevance of this article is that this problems just didn’t start 5 years or ten years ago this has been going on for over 4 decades or more , the problem now is that everyone has a camera and