Riots

The Pratt Street Riot and the New York City Draft Riots of 1863 were two of the most common riots of the Civil War times. The Pratt Street Riot took place on April 29th, 1861 in Baltimore, Maryland at the President Street Station. This riot happened only five days after the surrender at Fort Sumter. When the 6th Massachusetts infantry arrived back to the north and began to change…

Policing the community improved since the 2011 London riots? This essay will consider the reasons why it has improved and also where it has not improved to an extent in some areas. The Police and the Government tried significantly hard to turn around what happened five years ago, for example as soon as tension went down, they reviewed what happened and decided to make big changes. Following the London riots the government set up the Riots Communities and Victims Panel. This was setup to…

Meanwhile in the North, mass riots and deaths were occurring, such as the riot in Watts, California. It all started with a white police officer stopping what appeared to be a drunk black driver. In the end, the 6 day riot costed the lives of 34 people, and over 1,000 were injured. 600 buildings had been looted an set on fire, leaving the total damage cost at over $100 million. King wanted to help his people everywhere, not just in the South. So in January of 1966, King and his wife move into a…

Gays and lesbians have been standing up and sometimes even rioting for many years. For example, “The Stonewall riots (also referred to as the Stonewall uprising or the Stonewall rebellion) were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the gay (LGBT) community against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at…

In 2012 a group named “Pussy Riot” became known around the world for their performance on the altar of Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Savior. During their performance they sang a song titled “Punk Prayer” which included a message that many people are still figuring out. Some believe that the song was designed to criticize the Russian Orthodox Church while others believe that it was criticizing the Vladimir Putin and the Russian government. Jeffrey Tayler, Leonid Storch, and Sergei Prozorov…

Are Less-lethal Weapons Worth It? Law enforcement use less-lethal or nonlethal weapons on a daily basis, to maintain order and to prevent threats from getting out of hand. Nonlethal weapons are used to minimize civilian casualties in situations that present themselves to be hazardous to the public. Law enforcement use less-lethal weapons to maintain order and apprehend criminals with minimal casualties. Law enforcement use non-lethal weapons daily, and civilians often encounter health…

Homosexuality was a crime for most of the United States history. As early as the 20th-century people were working discreetly until the Stonewall riots of 1969 for the acceptance of people who are gay in society. The Stonewall Riots were a major turning point for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) community. It was beginning of societal awareness of the persecution and needed rights of the LGBT community. This seminal conflict eventually led to increased social acceptance and legal…

Use of Non-Lethal Weapons by Law Enforcement. This paper will answer the five questions offered below: 1. When did law enforcement start using non-lethal weapons and the different types of non-lethal weapons? 2. The two primary continuums and the significance of Non-lethal weapons and why law enforcement needs non-lethal weapons? 3. What are the causes and effects of non-lethal weapons, in regards to Tasers and pepper spray on a suspect? 4. When a subject is sprayed with pepper spray, can OC…

The life of cosmopolitan women in late-antiquity has remained something of an enigma to scholars. Perceptions of general decadence and moral impoverishment date back to the early research of historians like Edward Gibbon, who argued that a loss of virtue-ethics plagued the secular government. Authors of the 5th and 6th centuries, like Procopius and St. Augustine, offer little to undermine that notion. One would be quick to assume that the general decline in quality of life in the late…

Miguel Guerra Mercado Mrs. Meacham Race riot assignment December 8, 2017 Race Riots in Tulsa The race riots all started with a man named Dick Rowland. He was a young African American that worked on shining shoes for a living. While using an elevator, he was blamed for attacking a white woman named Sarah Page. It was at an elevator of a building in downtown Tulsa. The following day the Tulsa newspaper published an article stating that Mr. Rowland had tried to rape Mrs. Page. The article also…