Rafael Ramos

Laws are the cornerstone for any functional free society. As Abraham Lincoln stated: "Let every man remember that to violate the law is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the charter of his own and his children’s liberty". And for laws to function as the “oil” that keeps the engine of any nation running they must be enforced or there will be anarchy. With the backdrop of a society with enforced laws how does peaceful resistance play a role in the development of any free society?…

The public has taken matters into their own hands, by marching and creating riots to demand change. A march took place in Ferguson in honor of Michael Brown. Protestors carried signs that said “Hands up, don’t shoot”. The group was there to march for injustice and demanding change locally and nationally. This was cry against police violence. When Staten Island grand jury didn’t indict Pantaleo, citizens in New York and San Francisco gathered to protest. On December 4 and 5 more than 300 people…

In February 2016, Beyonce performed a super bowl halftime show that provoked controversy all over the world through her “attacking” the police force through her lyrics and music video. Natasha Lennard, An editor from Salon Media group “Why are cops taking Beyonce’s black affirmation as an attack?” after hearing multiple police officers making the decision to boycott the halftime show. Lennard was puzzled when society began to say that Beyonce was simply being an advocate for African Americans…

Compared to most other countries, Americans enjoy an extremely high standard of living, due to the infrastructure put in place by their government. Part of that higher standard of living means feeling safe from harm in the communities they call home. This sense of safety is most often secured, either directly or indirectly, by local law enforcement. These men and women go out of their way to make “Home” a safe and comfortable environment. Despite this, in the past year, several cases of police…

Police Murders – The Dangerous Influence of Hate by the Media “The media 's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that 's power. Because they control the minds of the masses”(Malcolm X). In today’s society with advanced technology, many may believe that the media are still needed in order to help police officers deter one from a life of crime. With television news shows and paper media, one may also believe…

illegal, the police have not changed these practices and instead made them legal under different names such as the “headlock” and the “drug courier profile”. In response to the Black Lives Matter movement and the 2014 killings of NYPD officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu, the Blue Lives Matter movement was created. Instead…

Black Lives Matter was a international activist movement that helped fight for equality towards the African Americans. This movement began as a small but fierce rebellion in a St. Louis suburb exploded into wildfire that has engulfed the whole country. It has done something all too rare in our time: it’s escaped the control of the ruling establishment, which police repression nor Democrats have been able to stop the movement because of how powerful it was to the world. Most recently in 2013…