Police riot

“To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.” (Wilcox) This is a quote from Ella Wheeler Wilcox that actually makes a lot of sense, but how should we go about this? There are two types of ways to protest. You can protest peacefully, maybe holding up a sign and handing out flyers. Or you could violently protest. This can involve vandalism, assault, and just doing morally and legally wrong things in general. When you make the decision that you are going to protest something…

into Madness: An Inmate’s Experience of the New Mexico State Prison Riot,” includes the account of inmates and correctional officers that were involved in the 1980 riot at the New Mexico Penitentiary (PNM) and the events that led to such violence. Mark Colvin, a sociology professor in the Department of Justice Studies at Kent State University, was hired as a part of a team who investigated witnesses about the event. Prison riots often involve violence taken against the officers and sheriffs;…

The Los Angeles Times described another possible reason for why these Zoot Suit riots occurred, that “Strife… arose as a result of beatings of individuals sailors by juvenile street bands and in two cases, assaults on women relatives of servicemen” (TTP Ch.8, Page 214). In other words these Mexican Americans rioted because they felt…

It is human nature to have an opinion. Everyone has their opinions. Some people are more passionate about their opinions than others, but how far is too far, when it comes to convincing others that a certain opinion is right? Protest is an expression or declaration of objection or disapproval (“The Definition”). When people protest, they are looking for change. Protesting has been around since we can remember, and, like most things in life, sometimes protests are a success, and sometimes they…

On February 1st, 2017 riots broke out on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley. It was a brawl waiting to happen. The night pitted a self-described right wing provocateur, Milo Yiannopoulos, and his band of merry Trump supporters against 1,500 protesters known as Anti-Fa (short for Anti-Fascists) and the group known as By Any Means Necessary. Protesters started fires, threw fireworks at the building, attacked members of the crowd, and threw rocks at the police who were guarding…

Cultural Revolution! When Do We Want It? The 1960s! The United States of America (and in fact, the whole world) has a long history of protest. From Nat Turner’s slave rebellion, to the trans-Atlantic Shakespearean rivalry that sparked the Astor Place Riot, to every workers’ strike from 1877 onwards; history can at times simply look like a long line of people taking action to right what they see as wrong. And yet there is one prevailing period of which the definitive image and mood is that of…

small Palestinian village. The documentary he created is called Five Broken Cameras. He is a peasant farmer who lives off of the land he owned. He has a family consisting of his wife and his four sons. He films to show their side of the fighting and riots and no matter what he will risk his life just to capture something that is happening. There was some difficulty of watching this documentary because of it being in a different language, but subtitles work wonders. Also, I had to keep in mind…

“I believe that rioting should not be an immediate option when trying to prove a point or an opinion. Those who riot do not prove a point, but rather they bring about destruction and damage to all those around them. Thus, by trying to make changes in society, rioters only bring about destruction instead. “If a rioter causes destruction in order to prove a point, he has come to the solution that violence is the only answer to his problem. By the rioter resorting to violence, he shows his problem…

Racism and segregation has a mass history in the United States, which has impacted our society greatly. There were many riots, boycotts, and strikes which occurred throughout the 1900’s. Many people simply wanted peace and to bring everyone together no matter what race or color. Others wanted to be separated from people with a different skin color and race. Whites and blacks were being separated from bathrooms and even restaurants. This resulted in conflict between our society which left many…

essential items being sold at the markets. This allowed the market men to charge any price they wanted. The Provost Marshal continued to raise the tariff and the market men double the prices on their merchandise. Soon it became no longer needful to send a servant at the crack of dawn to the market because only the wealthy could afford any supplies. John Beauchamp Jones was a well-known author, editor, and publisher. Wild western Scenes, is one of his many famous novels. He published A Rebel…