...Running Head: MICHAEL BROWN’S CASE 1 Michael Brown’s Case Kahlandra Walton MS Palmer High School English I January 5, 2015 Michael Brown’s Case 2 On the timing and day of the case Teenager Michael Brown had recently robbed a convenient store and wasn’t running but walking down the street with his friend. An on-duty police officer recognized the teens walking from the description the dispatcher had given him. It was reported by some eye witnesses that Michael had been harassing the police officer and banging on his squad car window. Keep in mind Michael Brown is 6”2 and the police officer described the experience of Brown standing over him to be “Like a toddler holding onto Hulk Hogan.” The police officer said he felt as if Brown was trying to imitate him in a way. The boy that had been reportedly walking down the road with Michael had taken off to running after he had handed him the cigarillos they had just stolen from the store up the road. The boy told police he ran because he saw them start to fight and the bullets being shot. Michael did not live to be able to state his version of the story, but his autopsy spoke it all. His autopsy revealed that Michael had been fighting the police officer and that the officer had fired the gun more than 3 times and hit Michael. Michael had been shot a few times in the arms and in the top of his head. The police officer never told of how he was able to bet the bullet to shoot Michael directly in the top of his...
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...Reminiscent of the callous Trayvon Martin shooting that resonated throughout the United States, Michael Brown suffered the same tragic fate on August 13. Michael Brown, an unarmed African-American teenager who was described as “a leader” who knew “what he wanted out of life,” was fatally shot by Darren Wilson, a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri last month, sparking a national outcry and civil unrest (Shoichet). In response to the inhumane shooting, controversy arose due to differing accounts over the events that took place on that night, resulting in the start of public protests in Missouri. Throughout Missouri, demonstrators held up their hands to mimic Brown’s actions when he was confronted by Wilson: they chanted certain phrases, such as “no justice, no peace” (McLaughlin)....
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...In its front page profile of Michael Brown, the young black victim shot dead by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, the New York Times describes as "no angel." The article by Annie Waldman for BBC focuses on the profile, the outrage it elicited, and the subsequent response by the New York Times. The article by John Eligon, published on the day before Brown's funeral, describes Brown's life in details. Though the profile is largely sympathetic to Brown, the particular passage that highlights Brown's dabbling with drugs, alcohol and rap music in which Eligon said that "Michael Brown...was no angel" that drew the ire of many online and received critical reaction from other media outlets. Some reacted by recounting their own teenage indiscretions...
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...Management Organization Behavior Name Course Title Date Management organizational behavior is the assessment of human behavior, mind-set, performance and individual values within an organizational setting. This paper will discuss and practice the theory, methods and morality of the diverse disciplines that bring it out to learn about personality perceptions, principles, group formation and dynamics; and executive processes that come about on a daily basis within any social setting. These processes may consist of forms of communications, decision making, management, authority and politics, disagreement, stress management, and adjustment. Considering the controversial killing on Aug 9th in Ferguson, Missouri of Michael Brown, soon after details from an authorized autopsy on him were released to reporters, legal advocate for Darren Wilson, the police officer who openly shot and killed the teen, address the media for the first time from the time when the investigations began, and he said they were not answerable for any information release to the media whatsoever. He further went on to confirm that they were not in custody of any of the disclosed information or the undercover report. In conclusion, he said that as long as the Grand Jury carries on with meetings and the Department of Justice also carries on with investigations, any remarks on this matter is only supposed to be done in the proper legal setting and not through the media (Zeidman, 2012). Shortly after publishing...
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...One of the biggest cases that is surrounding the news today is the story Michael Brown and Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri. This case began on August 9th, 2014 when Darren Wilson shot 18 year old Michael Brown. When he was shot, Brown had been unarmed. Before the shooting took place, Brown had been suspected of being involved in a robbery. Around this time, Wilson had been leaving another call that was made, when he stopped Brown for being in the street. He didn’t realize at the time that Brown was the suspect that was involved in the robbery. When he stopped Brown, he physically assaulted Wilson by pushing him into the car. The rest of what happened is still up for debate but what they believed to have happened is that Wilson pulled out his gun and when he did this Brown put his hand over the gun and Wilson shot. Wilson continued to shoot Brown six different times and kill him. Since Brown was unarmed and Wilson originally had no reason to stop Brown other than the fact that they were in the street, many people believed that Wilson did what he did out of racism and that Brown was the victim and not Wilson. This case went to trial and after three months the grand jury decided not to indict Wilson for the shooting of Brown. Throughout this paper, I will go through each point of view of Brown being the victim and Wilson being the victim. I will also use different victim theories to explain each of their situations. First off, we will look at this case from the point of view...
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...marches across the US were shut down by police officers and caused many violent conflicts. One example of why people are protesting Black Lives Matter is Michael Brown. Michael Brown was a unarmed teenager who was murdered by Darren Wilson, a white police officer, on August 9, 2014 in Missouri. Michael Brown and his friend were walking in the middle of the street when a white police officer approached them and said “Get the f*** on the sidewalk.” The two young men replied “[we’re] not but a minute away from our destination, and we would shortly be out of the street.” The officer drove the vehicle forward but stopped and backed up, almost hitting the pair. Still in his car, the officer grabbed Brown’s neck, Brown tried to pull away but the officer drew his weapon and shot Brown. The two young men took of running, Brown’s friend, Johnson, hid behind a car while Brown ran 20ft from the car and was shot once more on the back. Brown turned around with his hands up, but the cop continued to fire until Brown dropped dead. The officer claims it was self defense but he had barely any injuries and there was no solid evidence of a physical altercation. Wilson was not charged with any crime for the case of Michael brown and was ruled not guilty by the jury. This caused outrage across the nation, protests and marches for Michael Brown’s murder were everywhere. Police brutality is just one example of how the US still isn’t equal to all and we have a lot to work on as a country if we don’t want...
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...privileges, and the role that privileges play in our everyday lives. The topic of privileges shows up in Shaw and Lee chapter two which is the main focus. Privilege as defined by Shaw and Lee is defined as “Advantages that people have by virtue of their status or position in society.” For example males have advantages that are inherent just because they are males that females do not have. In the case of my topic I focused mainly on the privilege that white people have over black people. In early August in Ferguson, Missouri, 18 year old Michael Brown, an unarmed African American male was shot multiple times and killed after a confrontation with a cop. The officer, Darren Wilson, drove by the boys walking in the road and told them to move onto the sidewalk. Wilson then reversed his car back to the two boys where there was an apparent confrontation as Wilson recognized Brown as a suspect for a convenience store robbery days prior and the boys split off running in separate directions. It later became known that the robbery was not the reasons for the encounter that led to Brown’s death. (Washington Post) When Brown was killed there was a public outcry for him because he had been unarmed and was shot by a white police officer, Darren Wilson after what witnesses say looked like Brown surrendering with his hands up walking to Wilson. Shortly after Brown was shot protests and riots began and lasted for several days. This is not the first time that an unarmed African American male...
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...beliefs and treat everyone equally? I used to believe that most police officers were exactly what the oath said they were with the minority being the wicked ones, but recently I am starting to believe that reality is the opposite. I’m starting to believe that the wicked police officers are the majority and the just are scarce. “FERGUSON, MO (KTVI) - A shooting in Ferguson has tensions riding high between residents and police. Saturday afternoon, a police involved shooting occurred at the Canfield Green apartment complex in the 2900 block of Canfield. A teenager was shot and killed. An officer from the Ferguson Police Department was involved in the shooting,” says Fox news. This is the news report from August 14, 2014 about the murder of Michael Brown. He was an unarmed African American boy that was “slaughtered by...
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...RRacism is a topic of discussion that will always bring out a debate. Many events have occurred that one would find horrifying just based off racism. Simply being judged or opposed by the color of your skin or ethnic features, something one has simply no control of. All humans are under one race, the human race, yet some still discriminate against others of different backgrounds. “Is racism a permanent feature of American society?” is the matter at hand though. In this article, this question is answered and given many points to view when answering this question. The debate of this question in this article begins with two different viewpoints. There is case that someone who goes by the name Derrick Bell, says yes to racism being a permanent feature in American society and then there is Dinnesh D’Souza who thinks otherwise. The article then goes to show what people believe racism is and ways to end it in American society. Derrick Bell feels that racism is a permanent feature in American society. He feels this way because there are whites that truly won’t let go of the past racial discrimination and will only stand for their color. He gives examples such as lower class whites will stand with upper class white; who don’t have a real interest in helping the lower class, rather join blacks who share the same needs as them. He also says that whites only view blacks as being lower than they are that’s why blacks don’t stand a chance in competing with whites in society. He...
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...force generally gives officers considerable leeway in making that split-second decision about whether they need to kill to save themselves or others. Police officers are also automatically authorized, based on training in most states, including Missouri, to use deadly force if a suspect tries to grab the officer’s gun. Wilson has told investigators that Brown tried to get his gun during a scuffle in which Brown was reaching into Wilson’s patrol car. Law enforcement experts say the legal standard, established by two Supreme Court rulings from the 1980s, has made it hard for prosecutors to obtain convictions in cases of alleged use of excessive force. Experts say the high court rulings and Officer Darren Wilson’s account give investigators several reasons to find Wilson justified in shooting to kill 18-year-old Michael Brown. A teenager in Washington, D.C. named Michael Brown was shot dead after he allegedly flashed a knife to the police officers assigned in the area near Ferguson, causing his death (Flatow, 2014). Witnesses, however, tell that Brown was unarmed, and the police officers ruthlessly shot him six times on a Tuesday afternoon. Tensions and criticisms arose since the circumstances that were considered in the use of deadly force were unjustifiable (Siddiqui, 2014). This paper aims to discuss on whether or not the use of deadly force by the police officers, and other law enforcing agencies, should be sustained. As long as there is probable cause, law enforcing personnel...
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...America Today By: The most important achievements of African-American civil rights movements have been the post-Civil War constitutional amendments that abolished slavery and established the citizenship status of blacks, and the judicial decisions and legislation based on these amendments, notably the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision of 1954, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. These legal changes greatly affected the opportunities available to women, nonblack minorities, disabled individuals, and other victims of discrimination. The Brown decision demonstrated that the litigation strategy of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) could undermine the legal foundations of southern segregationist practices, but the strategy worked only when blacks, acting individually or in small groups, assumed the risks associated with crossing racial barriers. Thus, even after the Supreme Court declared that public school segregation was unconstitutional, black activism was necessary to compel the federal government to implement the decision and extend its principles to all areas of public life rather than simply in schools. The initial phase of the black protest activity in the post-Brown period began on December 1, 1955. Rosa Parks of Montgomery, Alabama, refused to give up her seat to a white bus rider, thereby defying a southern custom that required blacks to give seats toward the front of buses...
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...come together as one and fight for a new law so that innocent people can feel protected. Police brutality will still take place if our nation does not speak up. Organizing strategies such a monitoring the police, educating the public, and building coalitions would be such an advantage towards stopping police brutality. The number of African Americans killed by the police is absolutely outrageous. African Americans are always the first to be looked down upon as a suspect. For instance the shooting of Michael Brown occurred on August, 9th, 2014, in Ferguson, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. Michael Brown, a young black man, was fatally shot by Darren Wilson, a white police officer while his hands were up; he was surrendering. Many believe this was a racial act. The circumstances of this crime resulted in a series of protests and riots through out the United States and abroad. The black community in Ferguson has been sticking up for Michael Brown’s family ever since and this case is still under investigation by a county grand jury. Therefore, gathering the most relevant information on the activities of your police department can be a tough...
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...Theoretical Perspectives of Michael Brown’s killing Saturday, August 9, 2014 officer Darren Wilson fires shots killing 18 year old Michael Brown in the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, definitely a tragedy for society as a whole. Questions now arise such as; Was it because he is black? Did he disrespect the officer by grabbing for his gun? Did they tie him to a theft? Many theories can help suggest what might of happened during the confrontation that led to Michael Brown endless minutes and what theory has caused society in such an uproar. Will one theory explain the nature in which Michael Brown was a youth of color being harassed and/or considered a clear picture of racial repression? The functionalist perspective explains that if an aspect...
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...Chia Hsu (0813642) 18 May 2014 Current Events McShane, Michael Q. “Brown v. Board of Education anniversary: Our unfulfilled promise African-American kids” www.foxnews.com FOX News. Published May 17, 2014 According to Michael Q McShane, the Catholic school Saint Jude Educational Institute in the state Alabama is going to close at the end of this school year. This Catholic school is located at the heart of the African American community of the city, and in the civil right movement it was an important role. And because of many low income African American are unable to pay for their tuition, Saint Jude only charged $4,800 per student and spent $8,183 on each student. This had already caused Saint Jude may close at any time. But by looking for this case of Saint Jude, Alabama actually can easily help it by paying the losing tuition of each student, and Alabama would still be saving and Saint Jude won’t be close. In today life, although African American families is getting better of their income, 55percent was growth between 1963 and 2011, and also can see more African American kids finish four years college. But there is still many African Americans unable to study in the school. According to the quote in this news “It has been said by some that education is the civil rights issue of our time. Sixty years after the Kansas case of Brown v. Board of Education, students may no longer be segregated but education opportunities are unequal.”, the government should help struggling...
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...Additionally, deductive logic is a science based argument that concludes if the premise is true then the conclusion must also be true. An example of deductive reasoning can be seen in the Michael Brown case. Officer Darren Wilson of the Ferguson Police Department shot and killed 18-year-old unarmed Michael Brown on August 9, 2014. Ultimately, the United States Department of Justice determined that Wilson's use of force against Brown was defensible, and he was not indicted based on physical evidence that supported the officer's account of events. Wilson testified that Michael Brown reached for his gun and a struggle for the weapon followed, during which Wilson fired two shots. Wilson then pursued Brown, who turned and charged toward Wilson. Officer Darren Wilson fired multiple shots bringing Brown to the ground. Physical evidence supports Wilson’s account of how the incident took place as the Medical Examiner concluded that the wounds on Brown’s right hand occurred within 6 to 9 inches of the barrel of Wilson’s firearm (Department of Justice, 2015). Additionally, the Medical Examiner confirmed that Brown was, in fact, moving towards Wilson when he was fatally shot (Department of Justice, 2015). The examiners findings were essential in the decision to not indict Darren Wilson, because unlike witness testimony...
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