Chokehold

It’s been little over 21 days since the fighter awoke from a Georges St-Pierre chokehold to discover he had been stripped of his UFC middleweight championship title. But Kelvin Gastelum had other ideas… in the form of a first-round TKO. Gastelum gave Bisping the what’s for in the main event of UFC Fight Night 122 in Shanghai, China. Although Bisping landed some decent counters, ultimately Gastelum out-powered him, switching his lights off like it was NBD. Wow, talk about brutal. Talking…

It was about pushing my body to its limits and beyond. It was about disregarding my disease and running further than I've ever run before. It was about putting my Multiple Sclerosis in a chokehold and keeping it there for eight hours, while I ran the race. It was NOT about beating the other runners to the Finish Line. It was about running and being essentially FREE for those eight hours. For those eight hours that my feet were pounding the…

Police brutality and wrongful deaths are huge problems that seem to be occurring more and more often. There are so many instances of police shooting and killing people unnecessarily and punishment for a crime should be decided by law, not an individual. Although, there are situations in which the officer has a split second to make a decision, and when it comes down to the officers life and the criminals, there is only one clear choice. Yet there are many other instances where there should have…

by having two people in a relationship, but one person is slightly dominant over the other, for example a brother bossing around his little brother, a crazy person walking in someone while they're chained up, or an old lady putting a boy into a chokehold because he tries to steal her pocketbook. In “The Scarlet Ibis” the two main characters, Doodle and the narrator, are examples of one person being dominant than the other. In the story the narrator always seems to be bossing doodle around.…

At any given moment his mind would buzz with alert – wave its hands urgently and point fingers at something he should devote his attention to and, at the same time, his insides would try to find a secret passage to break loose; ascend from the staircase of his ribcage; shapeshift to the form of the bitter taste of truth - perpetuated on his tongue, but only making it as far as mere goosebumps. Thus, when he first laid eyes on you, all the sirens rooted within his walls exploded glowing fireflies…

this article that there are many undisclosed video from cell phones which have unearth the true intention of the law officer and put to silence many false witnesses. In reference, to Murray et al, Staten Island man dies after NYPD cop puts him in chokehold. Murray et al, reports that it was a video camera which gave the American citizen indignation to demand administrative reform. Also, Fieldstadt, reports within this article a comparison to the Fantz et al, Texas pool Chaos video, which shows a…

Police Culture in Pop Culture Americans are obsessed with crime, deviance, police, and the law. Turn on the television at any given time and you will find any type of “cop show” you could ever want. These shows highlight trends in crime, interesting deviant behavior, police in action, and the interpretation and enforcement of law. Many things we witness during a typical episode include types of police misconduct, strategies, practices, and subculture including but not limited too; brutality, the…

laying on the floor with his weight pressing into me.(flashback)”Any last words before you die” he said.”(flashback)”Yes,When you’re going to kill someone do it!”.(flashback)With all of my strength I pushed him off of me.(flashback)I held him in a chokehold and then threw his lifeless and bloody body out of the window(flashback). At this moment I felt no remorse as I laid my eyes upon his bones that the hounds left behind.…

Racism is a topic that’s really iffy now a day in this day in age. It’s one of the most important issues in the world that’s being dealt with today. Ignorance, fear, and hatred are probably some of the reasons why it’s happening today. Just because a person from a different color race or their skin is a different color from yours; why do they have to be treated differently or even out casted from others? However, when they do wrong, everyone else from that race is discriminated and judged, even…

African-Americans communities like Minneapolis see a lot of black on black crimes more often than anywhere else. Blacks are more likely to get arrested in Minneapolis for low-level crimes such as disorderly conduct or possession of marijuana than a white person (Gilbert, 2015). This cycle of unfairness all goes back to slavery when a white person calls a black person the “N” word or kills a black citizen it is looked at as heinous. Whites had control over the black population in 1619 which was…