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Wilson, the officer that delivered the fatal gun shots to Michael Brown, he stated that he felt endangered and threatened by Browns stance, by his size, even by the way he was looking at him (Cave, 2014). But eyewitness and friend to Michael Brown, Dorian Johnson, reported that his apprehension about the officer as they flagged down in the middle of the street by him (Bouie, 2014). Darren Wilson’s perception of the incident could very well have been the result of the conditioned perception of…

Police Officers and Body Cameras Police brutality has been around for decades. Police go on power trips and end up wrongly hurting or killing civilians. Rodney King was the most famous victim of police brutality when four Los Angeles Police Department officers beat King on a March night over twenty years ago (Biography.com Editors, n.d.) . The beatings on King were recorded by a bystander watching the events unfold (Linder, 2001) . More recently however, were the deaths of Eric Garner and…

Freedom of expression is a uniquely American tradition, at least to the extent we have here. Amy Witherbee, a researcher who studies how democracy and censorship go hand and hand said “At the core of censorship is always a parallel belief in the ability of an idea to alter lives and change nations. The challenge is to let those ideas wreak their havoc, and trust in our capacity as the citizens of a democracy to make of the damage something better than what was there before. If, on the other hand…

I have chosen police brutality as my topic to see if it is based on racism. Police brutality is the intentional use of excessive force against human beings. There are different types of police brutality such as excessive force, false arrest, malicious prosecution, unreasonable search and rights of pre-trial detainees. Excessive force is a metaphor that experts indicate that it’s any force beyond what’s necessary to arrest a suspect and keep police and bystanders safe. False arrest is where a…

Benjamin Spock once said, “Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal” (Goodreads). With the minority in the United States, the majority never knows how tough lives of minorities can be. Wesley Lowery writes a book on the discrimination of police brutality and what he saw through his own cultural lens. He is an African American journalist for the Washington Post. Lowery attended Ohio University…

What you do one day could affect somebody another day. An example of this would be how when Darren Wilson killed Brown his friend, Dorian Johnson, watched him get murdered in cold blood. “But at that time, the officer firing several more shots into my friend, and he hit the ground and died. We wasn't committing any crime, bringing no harm to nobody, but my friend was murdered in cold…

Ladeline McGuire, Mr. Belluscio, AP Language Arts 27, March 2024. What makes a person think and act the way they do? Most times, our lives are shaped by past events. The shining moments lift us and the breakdowns lead to breakthroughs. However, not everyone is built to handle these life-changing events, especially when they do more harm than good. Studies and research have proven that traumatic events in our lives can have a horrible effect on mental stability. Not moving on from the past can…

Greek mythology has played an important and lasting role in Greek and later civilizations. Greek mythology deals with the stories of gods and heros. The Greeks used these stories to try to explain and justify why things were in the world that they lived in. These stories were involved and used in the everyday culture of the Greeks. There are many different types of myth and legends although, they are not true they still are useful in understanding ancient Greece and their culture. Myths are…

Introduction Smell of apples by Mark Behr revolves around cultural identities. Rita Barnard argues in her article “The Smell of Apples, Moby-Dick, and Apartheid Ideology” that the smell of apples ends with narrator excepting of these cultural identities and of his position in society. Thus will this essay firstly discuss the dominant cultural identities portrayed in this novel. Secondly the moments in the novel where it seems as though the narrator resists the cultural identities, will be…

February 26th 2012 7:09 pm EST, 17 year old trayvon martin a resident of sanford georgia a student at krop high school walked away from a nearby gas station and down the street. Little did he nor the shooter know the following events that would unfold would take a economic and emotional toll on race relations and would turn the country upside down in the following weeks and years. Ronald Reagan once said, “‘We must condemn those who seek to divide us. In all quarters at all times we must teach…