Baltimore Riots: Case Study

In 1965 riots in L.A. occurred after a routine stop by the police involving drunk driving. This stop occurred very close the driver’s residence where massive crowd began to build. When it was all said and done

In Baltimore, residents are standing up against police brutality by peacefully protesting and rioting;both of which are forms of rebellion using Merton’s terms. Police brutality, however, is only one symptom of a much

“Search planes appear to have been more likely to go down themselves than find the men they were looking for.” (Hillenbrand 91).

Two high profile cases that violated each of the articles mentioned above where the cases of Eric Garner and Freddie Grey. On July 17, 2014, a 43-year-old African American man name Eric Garner died after being placed in a chokehold for 15 to 19 seconds by New York Police Department officers. He was approach by an officer who tried to arrest him for selling loose, untaxed cigarettes. The medical examiner concluded that Garner was killed by " choke hold, compression of chest and prone positioning during physical restraint by police". On April 19, 2015, a 25-year-old African American name Freddie Grey died from a spinal injury after being taken into police custody. Gray was shackled and handcuff to the van but not buckle in, which ultimately lead to the spinal injury. Both officers in the

If I were employed as a police officer a main concern that I would have in regards to officer rights and unions is that the actions executed by a union will ultimately affect all affiliates, attributable to interconnection. For example, in 2015 shortly after the death of Freddie Gray, violent riots transpired in the city of Baltimore. Many elements increased the outrage of civilians that ultimately led to rioting and one components was the Baltimore police starting a Gofundme.com campaign in effort to collect money for the six imprisoned officers legal fees. The Baltimore riots were devastating for the entire city, and that particular action manifested by someone (or a group of people) was a representation of the the entire association.

In April 2015, the devastating Gorkha earthquake shook Nepal, killing thousands and injuring thousands more. Nepal’s location on the Indo-Eurasian fault line makes it a prime location for earthquakes, as well as resulting landslides and avalanches. Less than a month after the first quake, a 7.3 magnitude aftershock struck Nepal again and left the entire country in fear (Nepal earthquakes, 2015). Relief efforts quickly followed after the earthquakes, as well as the flight of thousands of Nepalis who fled the country out of fear that the earthquakes would never end.

AAR 14-01 was published by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on June 24th 2014. It is the Aircraft accident report for Asiana Airlines flight 214, from Inchon, South Korea to San Francisco, California. The flight was scheduled to be a 10 hour and 34 minute flight across the Pacific Ocean. However, the flight ended short of the runway and impacted the sea wall at the end of runway 28L, destroying the aircraft.

At 8:45 a.m. on September 11, an American Airlines Boeing 767 crashed into the north World Trade Center building. The

On April 25, 2015 the country of Nepal and the surrounding countries of India, China, Bangladesh, and Bhutan experienced an earthquake with the magnitude of 7.8 (Kumar). The earthquake triggered an avalanche on Mount Everest killing nineteen people. Another avalanche was triggered in Langtang Valley a reported two hundred and fifty people are missing. Aftershocks continued well there after one reaching as high as 6.7. The death toll has not reached well over 7,250 (Kumar). The number of injured is 14,122. The UN estimates well over three million people need food and other assistance. Thousands of people have fled the areas especially around Kathmandu fearing aftershocks or trying to get to family member 's homes in remote areas.

The first theory regarding the crash argues that there is a missile which hit the plane and caused it to crash down. Advocates of this claim believe that Sinai is an active space for militants which have been receiving sophisticated weapons, including surface to air missiles. Alexander Smirnov, a spokesperson for Metrojet, added a probability to this theory when he said that a technical fault is ruled out, in addition to pilot error, blaming the crash on what he considered

An airplane crashed in southwestern China, killing all 108 passengers on January 18th. The airplane was reported to of crashed at 10:15 P.M. Monday night. The passenger plane was leaving from Beijing, heading for Chongqing. Until the crash happened about five miles from the airport in Sichuan. The plane was reported to be carrying 10 crew members and 98 passengers. Four of the people that were in the crash were foreigners, three Japanese and a british man. The three Japanese passengers were identified as Isamu Tanaka and Masato Haga of the Toshiba Corporation, and the third was Sumio Kudo of Mitsui & Company.

The media has been hiding things and covering up stories from the people for decades. On March 8th, 2014, Malaysia flight 370 mysteriously vanished while on its way to Beijing. The conspiracy theories surrounding this mystery are endless, but there is only one that is true. The families of the 227 victims deserve to know the truth about what happened to the ones that they love. Some people think that the plane just ran out of gas or crashed because of a natural cause, and others think it was a suicide or a hijacking. The Malaysia flight 370 was crashed and disappeared as a result of a deliberate plan supported by anecdotal, physical, and documentary evidence. This plane crashed because of a pilot suicide.

The residents of the Kathmandu Valley were not as fortunate in 1934. The Bihlar-Nepal Earthquake is the most devastating in the nationÕs history. It reached a measurement of 8.0 on the Richter scale and the rupture length is estimated to be between 100 and 200 kilometers.[14] It produced strong shaking in the valley, which is the political, economical, and cultural capital of the country. Of

Nepal is a country that is prone to natural disasters ranging from: earthquakes, floods, landslides, avalanches, windstorms, hailstorms, lighting, fire, droughts and epidemic (a widespread occurrence of disease in a population at the same time), (.: Nepal Centre for Disaster Management:., no date). Just recently this year, Nepal was struck by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake in April and a 7.3 magnitude earthquake in May that together killed over eight thousand people and affected millions. (Nepal earthquake, April/May 2015, 2015)

In Nepal, on 25th April 2015 Saturday at 11;56 local times, a 7.6 magnitude earthquake hit Barpak in the historic district of Gorkha, about 76 km northwest of Kathmandu. Since the major shock till 7th June 2015, there were >300 aftershocks of magnitude >4, among them 6 are > 6 magnitudes (the biggest aftershock 6.8 magnitudes with an epicenter near Mt. Everest) This devastating earthquake damages infrastructures including historical sites, residential houses,