Donald Trump Shooting Essay

They were also arrested. (Auerbach 1688) That's all it took for this riot to come into play, a few people unhappy about the way the police handled the situation. The next thing you know its a few thousand unhappy people.

down, and the frightened soldiers fired into the crowd. When the shooting ended, several people

The shooting occurred at the Fruitvale train station on January 1st, 2009. At the station, a fight broke out in one of the trains and when the train stopped the fight started again outside of the train at one of the stops. While they were fighting on the train the BART officers were called. The officers came and arrested everyone that was in the fight. A guy named Oscar Grant was in the fight and was also arrested (Meyer). While Grant was being arrested by Officer Mehserle, he resisted the officer’s attempts. Since Grant was resisting he was pushed onto the ground on his stomach to be handcuffed. Johannes Mehserle was having trouble handcuffing Grant so the other BART officers helped him. When Grant was on the ground Mehserle was going to tase him since he would not stop resisting. When Mehserle thought he pulled out his TASER, he instead pulled out his gun. Mehserle accidentally shot Grant with his gun since he thought he pulled out his TASER (Bulwa).

Protests riots in the United States has proven to an issue for both the country’s financial strength and the unity of the nation. With the presence of social injustices, combined with the increased impact of social media propaganda, protests riots are beginning to reach an all time high. Protest riots destroy individual communities and businesses, jeopardizes the safety of others and taints the protest’s cause by resorting to civil disobedience. Action must be done in order to prevent these random acts of violence from continuing after every social hot topic. The goal is not to prevent citizens from protesting; in fact, this should be encouraged. The goal is to change the way the protests are handled from both the citizens and authority perspectives, in order to prevent these protests from escalating into something dangerous.

bullets injuring Kennedy and Connally. There was also a police motorcyclist riding to the right of

A married couple by the name of Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashleen Malik opened fire at a holiday party on December 2, 2015, at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino. During this shooting spree, 14 people were killed, and 22 were injured with a majority being county employees and were friends and colleges’. It was approximately 11 a.m. when the couple entered the Inland Regional Center and opened fire. They opened fire in the employee banquet area where Mr. Farook had been earlier as he attended a work holiday party. It was reported that Mr. Farook had left angered after getting into a disagreement with a fellow coworker. Quickly after the shooting they escaped into a black SUV leaving behind three pipe bombs that did not detonate. The televised chase ended in an intense shootout that led to a full muti-agency response, to include the use of MRAPs and it was also reported that 23 officers fired over 380 rounds (Helton, 2015). Ultimately, the shootout resulted in the death of both Rizwan Farook and Tashleen Malik.

A massive shooting happened in Las Vegas at a country music festival on the Las Vegas Strip. The shooter fired from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel. 58 people were killed and over 500 people were injured. Witnesses said that it lasted around 15 minutes. The suspect was a 64 year old man named Stephen Paddock, who he is now dead according to authorities. After the first shots, many people got into their cars to pick up others to save them and give them cover. Some people got on top of others to save them and take a bullet for them. Others pushed civilians to the side and saved them from getting shot.

In July of 1986, McDonald was working as an undercover cop in Central Park, where he stopped to question three suspicious boys. During the stop, one of the boys, Shavod Jones pulled out a .22-caliber and shot McDonald three times. One of the bullets hit McDonald in his neck, piercing through his spinal cord and ultimate paralyzing him. McDonald was rushed to Bellevue Hospital and doctors believed he wouldn’t make it through the night.

This shows that the protest was not peaceful, private property was crossed and people were harmed. With reading this article it is noticeable that the protesters got violent only because something that means a lot to them was being destroyed. It was sacred land that was being demolished right in front of them, and that must have been devastating. This matters on a local level because it was a hard thing to see happen for tribes all around. The land that was destroyed had a lot of importance for them. This event is important and affects people nationally since some even travelled from other states to attend the protest. Just by that, everyone can see how much this is affecting people, especially Native

In this case this shooting led to a dozens of protesters standing across the street from the scene behind a line of police officers shouting and waving fingers at the officers.” The shooting led to a tense couple of hours at the station, where scuffles with police broke out -- and what appeared to be lit fireworks were thrown”(CNN Wire n.p.). It came out that Antonio never shot the gun he still had five rounds in the magazine also one in the chamber. “The teen had a rap sheet that included charges for three assaults, armed robbery, armed criminal action and multiple uses of weapons since he was 17, police said”(CNN Wire n.p.). A lot of people say that events like this is what makes people come together and try to make a

Ever since Donald Trump got elected, the nation has gotten more divide. There has been numerous protests, riots, rallies and flag burning throughout cities. For example, in Los Angeles protesters burned a Donald Trump effigy at city hall. What forced police officials to intervene was the blockage of Highway 101. Furthermore, L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti asserts that he isn’t stopping the protests but asked for protesters to not be violent,: “Protests can, should, and must proceed in that spirit and I urge everyone to look out for their fellow Angelenos and put safety first.”

• Three-hour standoff unfolded: Officers from multiple departments arrived at the scene after the shooting. A bomb squad was called in, and before 5 a.m. officers conducted a controlled detonation. Police used an armored vehicle to break through a wall of the nightclub, then SWAT team members exchanged gunfire with the suspect. He was shot and killed. Mina said the suspect was armed with a handgun and an assault rifle.

The security forces used the actions of a few rock-throwers… to do what they had been trying to do from the start: clear the city of thousands of lawful protesters because it was more convenient that way. Once they got their ‘provocation’, they filled entire neighborhoods with tear gas… People giving the peace sing to police were grassed.

     The protesters in this case were rather non-violent in nature, and the police were quite peaceful when they did have to arrest someone. This protest was quite tame in comparison to the one in Seattle last November. I believe that this is due to the advanced planning of the police in securing the area before people even gathered to protest. I believe that the protester’s message has been heard through the large amount of publicity that

The number of students involved gathered up to around 10,000. On their way to the stadium, it was reported that around fifty armed policemen stopped the students in an attempt to send them back. Initially the policemen tried (but failed) to disperse the crowds by means of warning shots fired and tear gas. The situation however took a severe turn as policemen instead began firing shots directly into the crowd. While some students attempted to fight back by means of throwing stones, many simply ran for cover.