Argumentative Essay On Dallas Winston's Death

On December 5, 1971, Ehrlich Coker was to have allegedly raped and stabbed a young woman to death. Less than a year later, he kidnapped and raped a sixteen year old female. There was an additional victim in which he tortured the young woman and abandoned her in a wooded area. After his apprehension, Mr. Coker pled guilty to the offenses. “ He was sentenced by three separate courts to three life terms, two 20-year terms, and one 8-year term of imprisonment” (Brody & Acker, 2010, p. 57). While Mr. Coker was serving his sentences at the Ware Correctional Institution, he escaped the facility on September 2, 1974. On the evening of his escape, he is to have allegedly broken into the home of Allen and Elnita Carver and held the couple hostage. During this altercation, Mr. Coker is thought to have committed the act of rape against Mrs. Carver and abducted her from the home, utilizing the couple’s car. Mr. Carver was able to free himself and notify law enforcement. The car, along with Mrs. Carve and Mr. Coker was located. Due to the events that occurred on this particular day, Mr. Coker was charged with “escape, armed robbery, motor vehicle theft, kidnapping and rape” (Brody & Acker, 2010, p.54).

The suspect, John Williams had always been an outcast. He sometimes had episodes in public places, but was rarely ever violent. None of the townspeople understood him, and avoided him almost completely. No one but

He then started to get himself in to trouble with the police when he was arrested for highway robbery, but was released when

argue that they were acting foolish because they were with a policeman and they were save with him and some people thing is foolish because they were acting like that. However, stronger evidence is on the other side. What must be remembered is that they didn’t know if he was a cop or not. They just wanted to go home and they didn’t think he was a policeman. This is essentially why They needed to be safe and they didn’t feel like that because they were with a cop that didn’t look like one.

Jonathan Sanders (39) was a horse trainer. Due to the 95 degree weather he like to exercise his horses at night. A little before 10:00pm on July 8th, 2015 he was seen chatting with a friend of his who happened to be white. After they disbursed Officer Kevin Herrington pulled over the friend at one of the towns two gas stations. As Sanders passed the scene he yelled out, “Why don’t you leave that man alone?” as he continued to ride horse. Sanders no had no current warrants, but was no stranger to law enforcement. He was currently out on bond from on a cocaine possession charge from an April arrest. He also had been already been convicted on charges of selling cocaine in 2013. Sanders' arrest record hows arrests other infractions as well.

On September 27, 2016 an African American man was shot and killed by El Cajon police. A woman whose is sister of the man who was shot called the police indicating her brother was “not acting himself”. The man whose name Is Alfred Olango was walking into traffic in the 800 block Broadway before police officers found him behind a restaurant around 2:11pm. Olango ignored the instructions from the police officers multiple times, then [quote] “concealed his hand in his pant pocket,” Davis said [end of quote]. Olango would pace back and forth then [quote] “rapidly drew an object from his front pants pockets, placed both hands together on it and extended it rapidly toward one officer, taking what appeared to be a shooting stance,” the chief said [end

The officer was called to assist the woman’s son but instead he was murdered. Police officers use their weapons under any circumstances. Officers need to be trained to deal with any situation, even an emergency of a mentally ill person without having to go as far as shooting someone all because he felt threatened. There needs to be new training exercise provided for the police departments to help reduce the murders and harassment against minorities based on the inability to handle someone.

There are many things that the officers could have done during the shooting of Laquan McDonald. From my perspective it appears as if Laquan is walking away from the officers. I understand that when there is a knife involved any officer during the circumstances can fear for their life. However, there are other approaches they could have taken. First, because of the simple fact that there was a knife involved and not a gun. Instead of shooting Laquan as he was walking away they could have tazed him. If tazing didn’t come to mind and the first option they thought they had was to shot him that is perfectly untestable considering the circumstances because they clearly didn’t know who they were facing. However, Officer Van Dyke did not have to fire

controversial question. Kidnapping a friend in an attempt to flee and threatening to kill himself

The author states “ ‘ Dally’ll get us outta here.’ I heaved a sigh. Why hadn’t I thought of that? But I never thought of anything. Dallas Winston could do anything .” Dallas Winston could do anything starting from beating up Socs that come his way, to cleaning up someone’s else’s dirty mess. On the other hand, when it comes to losing the only thing he loved, he could take it mentally and could cause trouble to his other surroundings such as robbing store after store, and finding ways to make other people suffer from his

Police are called into a local gas station where an armed robbery has just been reported. They now surround the premises looking for any possible evidence or whereabouts of the deviant responsible for this. Amongst the eyewitnesses there were no injuries but one shaken victim, Sally Mae Rickets, who was severely traumatized by this ordeal. Police question and gather enough information to pinpoint a main suspect, a white male, age 24, by the name of Ricky Bobby Smith. The local police department has a probable cause to arrest him. With a undiagnosed history of mild mental illness, two separate counts of misdemeanor, and the fact he has already been in prison and is currently

The article of 12 year-old Tamir Rice puts the audience in awe again even after the incident regarding Michael Brown. As mentioned this event happened so close to the indictment of the police officer who shot Michael Brown so it has enraged the community. Rice was at a local park aiming his gun at people, someone reported it and when police arrived and try to talk to the boy he put his hand on his waist like reaching for the gun. The police officer took two shots, to which the boy later died in the hospital. When the police inspected the gun they figured out that it was a bb gun. (Bever, 2014) One can connect this case with that of Police Discretion, one may feel that the action that the police officer took but others might think it was uncalled for. Unfortunately, stuff like this happens often and some of the times the whole situation can be avoided if it is thought out before action is taken.

What if you were sent to jail for a robbery that excelled to a murder that you didn’t commit. Well this event happened to a young black boy, named Steve, that was influenced by his environment. The crime that Steve was a part of was robbery and first degree murder.The reason he took part in these events are unknown, but one thing that is certain is he will be charged and have to be proven innocent or guilty. What do you think? Will Steve be proven innocent or guilty of the crimes he was charged with? In all honesty Steve should be held accountable for the robbery with his associate’s James King and Bobo Evans but not for the charge of first degree murder of Mr. Nesbitt (the drug’s store owner). After reading all the evidence it can be proven

Sometimes in order to protect the people, they may have to put force on another. Shooting is a common last resort, and many people are affected by the gun. In order for a situation to get terrible enough for the use of guns, there are a variety of different options that the suspect could be doing: wielding a weapon, suicidal, mentally troubled, running when told to halt (Chappell). If one is opposing a large threat to the community or an officer, and that officer knows someone could possibly get killed by that person, the officer has the authority of self-defense

In instances like Lunsford’s, it’s hard to predict actions from offenders like this. Couey showed no reason to be a high risk in society, and there was no way of determining if he was going to commit an offense like this, when he never had previous