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article, “The Pain of Police Killings Can Last For Decades,” Ben Greenberg states that the grief that comes from an unjust police killing can last in the family for generations. His thesis statement is, “But long after the demonstrations end, the streets go quiet and the cameras leave, families of those killed have to find ways to cope with their loss” (Greenberg, 2016, para. 1). The audience for this article is anyone who might be interested or uninformed about unjust police killings. The…

his Islamic faith he had grown a beard during his entire tenure with the district and the beard was longer than one-quarter of an inch. According to court documents, the school district implemented a new grooming policy that restricted school police officers from having a beard longer than one-quarter of an inch (The United States Department of Justice, 2014). Abu-Bakris requested accommodation based upon his religious belief and instead of granting the wished, the school district issued…

According to film scholars, mise-en-scène refers to everything that is on screen, and the way the look and feel of a film tells a story. The different, interworking aspects of mise-en-scène also help to immerse the viewer into the film’s setting, mood, and even mind of a character. This is always a challenge for directors who wish to convey a certain message through their film and, keep the attention of the audience, as well. While mise-en-scène generally refers to the appearance of a film, it…

The event that took on the evening of November 20th, 2014, it was so horrific and strange that nobody would think that this would ever happen to them. Imagine that you are driving carefully and by following all rules and regulations of traffic, but from nowhere, a car crosses the intersection in front of you and smashes into your car perpendicularly bumper to bumper. It was that event that happened with us on the intersection of John Fries Highway intersection with Allentown Road. During the…

business being looted. The most bizarre aspect of these 1960’s type scenes, is that most of the riots are in support of a guilty individual who died trying to evade or harm police officers. Today, police officers are often dehumanized by the media, and things like the death penalty are used to humanize murders. When my cousin, Officer Justin Sollohub, was killed in the line of duty, justice ran its…

late-night illegal activities. West Englewood is an area many people have not heard of - it’s tucked inside the southwest side of Chicago. During the day, the people of Englewood would wake up to the smell and sound of gunshots and burning tyres. Police officers would parade the streets in their well-ironed uniforms and the alleys would be covered with bright and colourful graffiti of sayings and images, which I didn’t understand at the time. When night came, Englewood was almost…

released in the New York Times entitled Lawsuit Depict a Police Culture of Sexual Harassment and Cover-ups highlights the sexual harassment towards female police officers and how their complaints were not addressed when brought to authorities. In an industry that is prominently lead and consisted of male employees and employers' many female officers often felt harassed and discriminated against in the Manhattan police department. Some female officers even claimed that their supervisors would…

In this trial, the question the court is being asked to answer is whether Alex Cooper was responsible for his own injuries. Throughout this trial, the law applied was negligence. Negligence is broken down into four parts: duty, breach, causation, and damages. Due to the nature of this trial as a civil suit, the plaintiff had the burden of proof, meaning the burden to prove by the greater weight of the credible evidence. On the night of October 5, 2012, Taylor Hamilton was driving his mother’s…

a sacrifice for their country.” About that time John had glanced up and noticed a police officer walking down the path. As the police officer approached the pair. He asked John,” If everything was ok?” John looked at the policeman and nodded,” This is Staff Sargent James Murphy.” As the pair had started to talk, James started to hallucinate once again. As the pair started to protect James, John glanced at the officer and said,” Staff Sargent has witnessed some extremely horrid incidents,…

have on police officers, my first question that I asked every student was what their opinion on police officers is and why they believe police officers are in schools. This was crucial because if a student had a negative opinion or bias, it can skew their answers for the rest of the questions. Also, it is important to acknowledge whether the students understood the accurate reasoning for school resource officers. 9 students (students B, C, D, E, G, H, I, J, K, L) stated that most police officers…