“They don’t think they’re tough or desperate They know the law always wins They’ve been shot at before, but they do not ignore That death is the wages of sin. Some day they’ll go down together
And they’ll bury them side by side To few it’ll be grief, to the law a relief But it’s death for
Bonnie and Clyde.” Bonnie Parker wrote in her poem Bonnie and Clyde predicting her and her lovers death long before they met their end. The legend of Bonnie and Clyde is known by most as two lovers whose lives as criminal masterminds in the Depression-era, were full of luxury and high-speed chases. From movies to television show to Broadway musicals, Bonnie and Clyde are notoriously depicted as a glamorously romantic bank robing duo. When in fact …show more content…
He was accused of this while Bonnie was still in jail. In order to keep a low profile afterward, he was reduced to doing a series of small holdups. Eventually, after a large amount of failures, one of their robberies went well so they decide to celebrate at a party in a small town. Unbeknownst to Barrow’s gang the town sheriff and his deputy were monitoring at the party and grew suspicious when three total strangers pulled up in an expensive car and started drinking. Because they began to agitate the locals, the sheriff decided it was best to arrest them before the townsfolk did something worse. When the sheriff calmly approached their car and told them they were under arrest Clyde, slightly drunk, decide kidnaping was the best solution telling his acamples “let’s take him” he’s acomplis took this to mean kill him and fired at the sheriff. It ended in a shootout where Clyde shot and killed the deputy. In the eyes of the polise Clyde had killed on of their own and they would stop at nothing to bring him to justice. This was a turning point in Clyde’s life, he would go on to kill 9 officers and 4 civilians. Anyone standing between him and his freedom would have to be collateral damage because he knew by killing the deputy he had signed his death