Chicago Riots : Looting, Fires Engulf City After Freddie Gray 's Funeral By Holly Yan And Dana Ford

Media spiked many thoughts that police brutality is a big deal in today’s times, which then lead to the huge riots throughout the city of Ferguson where Darren Wilson and his family had to be protected from thousands of protestors who threatened his life as well as the entire city. The real story as well as the autopsy reports later came out to show that officer Wilson did not shoot him numerous times as he was running

Jon Stewart’s Baltimore report focuses on the lack of urgency within the city council. Stewart opens up with comparing older riots to the “lawless” acts in Baltimore. It was made clear that Baltimore was in shambles prior to the protests that broke out due to Freddie Gray’s death. Stewart also explains that people should stop ignoring the roots of the problems in the communities.

Does the sound of the city ring a bell as a place filled with violence and gruesome stories? That’s what I have always noticed with the reports involving the city of Oakland. To news media everything has to have just the right amount of darkness to it in order for that news channel to have a good amount of viewers. Like it or not we all have that little dark side within us that is more curious and interested to see something terrible happen in news reports; because for some reason it’s entertaining to us. During my critical thinking class with my professor Larry Salomon, I learned that this is why most news channels like to show gruesome and tragic stories more often, because we as human beings find some sort of interest and satisfaction hearing about these stories; and this makes work for news channels more easier to gain more viewers. Some people are more eager to learn about a tragic story unlike the other reports that have a more hopeful and cheerful description. How is this linked to violence in Oakland? News reporters know that Oakland is the place to go when you need a story that will help you get viewers. I have talked to some residents in my community of Oakland and they stated that they were tired of being the notebook of bad stories to be told on live television; the only reason why violence seems to continue in this community is because reporters always point the finger at the city as being a place filled with

Race riots are one of the major news items we hear about via the media when a social crisis occurs. The riots in Baltimore, however, were not so much about race, but more about economic and social class separations. The riots began as a peaceful protest amongst the citizens of Baltimore over the death of one of their own, Freddie Gray. Gray was a young, African-American, from a financially lower class area of Baltimore. Unfortunately, he died while in custody of the Baltimore Police. While this is a tragic loss, he was unlawfully detained by the police (Sarlin, 2015) during this ordeal. On the surface, the riots may appear as a cut-and-dry race provoked, once they are looked into further, that is not necessarily the case.

Social and economic disparities are plaguing the city of Baltimore. There are numerous issues that the city of Baltimore is facing, many of which did not come to light until the case of Freddie Gray. On April 2015, a 25-year-old black man by the name of Freddie Gray fell victim to police brutality. After the discovery of his death and the unreasonable way he was treated, Baltimoreans began to protest. The anger and frustration began to escalate due to other social and economic problems the city faces regularly.

A state in a stage of peace was brutally ended on April 12th, 2015. The streets of Baltimore were crowded as a crowd of people filled the streets. Freddie Gray was one of the many in the crowd at the corner of W. North Avenue and N. Mount Street. Four officers on bicycles were patrolling a crowd that had formed. Slight tension was felt in the air as the police presence was felt by all.

News covers the negative aspects of the riot – not the positive thigns that happened, before hand. We are led to believe that the riot are the only thing happening. “Cops are injured” vs. Dead man with broken spinal cord. “Gang

A riot means a violent disturbance of the peace by a crowd. Like the two riots we are going to see that happened in Baltimore City. Recently Baltimore had a riot but that wasn’t the first riot that Baltimore had, in 1968 there was a riot and this year 2015 another riot happened. The Baltimore riots are proof that things do stay the same.

The riots in Baltimore are the result of Freddie Gray, a young man, who was a local Baltimore resident, and also a minority was pronounced dead after being taken into police custody. Instead of releasing information to the public on the reason for Gray’s death, the bureaucracy of the local police and city officials released the

Among the copious amounts of race riots arising in many parts of the United States, the Chicago race riot is the most recognizable. On July 27, 1919, a black boy named Eugene Williams was stoned by whites and drowned in the 29th street beach after accidentally swimming into white claimed territory. While this angered African Americans, the refusal by police to arrest the offenders of the attack infuriated them even more. The incident caused a full blown race riot, leaving 23 blacks and 15 whites dead, 537 people injured, and 1,000 black families homeless over a 13 period. In Washington D.C., four whites were killed along with two blacks, however, in Phillips County, Arkansas, 25 African Americans and 5 whites were declared officially dead,

“The year 1968 was one of the most riotous years in twentieth century of American political history. Racial tensions burst into riots in many cities, particularly after the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Demonstrations on college campuses against the war brought students into conflict with police who were often called to maintain order”(Chicago Riots Mar the Democratic Convention). In the year 2016 you have lots of riots going on because of police brutality. Kids are getting involved along with the adults. The Black Lives Matter issue has been a big deal lately because our people are still dying and the police are still getting away with it. It's just really sad because it's like no one is taking this serious. They are letting these cruel

Gray’s death sparked protests, civil unrest and rioting. Maryland Governor Lawrence Hogan declared a state of emergency in the city and implemented citywide curfews. A medical examiner ruled Gray’s death a homicide and six Baltimore PD officers were subsequently charged and implicated in his death.

To summarize the article “Rumor to Fact in Tales of Post-Katrina Violence”,  New Orleans was described as ruins damaged by floods during Hurricane Katrina, leaving the city drowned in it’s own ugly violence. The ugly consensus comes down to poor blacks and looters murdering innocents and terrorizing whoever crossed their path in the vulnerable city. Many civilians said that it looked like the city was under siege (Saunders 1). Now, an image of white violence intended for good, police killings, and cover-ups are being surfaced. On top of looters, police officers and white civilians have been accused of racially motivated violence (Saunders 1). Some say the flood produced an angry environment in which African-Americans were hated against in the

Furthermore, this book had some strong characters that wanted to change in their community. Especially, young adults. In today’s society nobody rarely does that. The only big impact that happened in Maryland, was in Baltimore when Freddie Gray was murdered. Later, Baltimore became a riot to get justice for Freddie Gray, but violence was not the key. Therefore, by reading this book, I have learned about a girl called, Christi Steiffer. She’s fourteen years old. She was part of many organizations, such as, ACLU, GLSEN, Human Rights Campaign, and NOW. She has written about when she was being harassed while walking to the library.

My pictures where capturing the madness of the scenes. Water began flying into the air and police were coming with barricades. Bystanders were beginning to form as more members of the birmingham emergency response team where nonchalantly showing up. It reminded me of the first article I did for the times, and got reprimanded for it. The article contained the fact that their was not a single black police officer or firefighter in all of birmingham. Now I could see the reverend, just hysterically perplexed at the sight of his church and the state of his congregation. An hour had passed by no longer was there a fire, but now came the time to find out who was hurt, I chose not to stick around taking a few witness statement I headed back for the times building. No longer was it empty now the chief editor, executive editor, and at least a dozen journalists were flying all about. I just sat their in my chair staring at the wall with a blank expression on my face it seemed time just flew by me. Perplexing was it, that something so miniscule as the color of someone's skin could cause so much hate. I began to doubt my boiler explosion theory, only for it to be confirmed when a police report was thrown on my desk. The cause, a bomb placed underneath the stairwell, the cost four innocent lives. Apparently they were four girls attending sunday school when the blast hit them.The bodies of Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley, all 14, were found in the basement bathroom under the rubble with 11-year-old Denise McNair. Their was something here about four white males believed to be in connection with the attack. I thought back to when I was driving by earlier this morning, the white gentleman out front that I chuckled at. According to accounts the KKK were responsible for it, the reason they did it, was to show that whites