It was a quiet morning on June 19, 2015. A 4 year old girl, Ava, was playing outside. Nearby a CPD officer stood by his car. According to 10TV.com,” The Columbus Police officer was in Whitehall responding at a nearby home for an incident that happened in Columbus”. Additionally, Columbus Dispatch stated ,” Ava got cut on a piece of glass, and the officer can to her rescue”. At the same time Ava’s older sister Andrea was coming too. Likewise, NCA quoted,” the officer was trying to help when the family dog charged at him”. Then, the unspeakable happened. The officer tried to shoot at the dog, but missed. You might think it's a good thing the officer didn’t kill the dog. But instead of the dog, the bullet went through Ava’s right leg, breaking
Enter Charles Kinsey, 47, a behavior therapist in the Miami area. This past Monday, while Kinsey was attempting to help one of his patients that has autism, he was shot in the leg. Prior to this, Kinsey can be shown on video trying to get his patient to listen to him, and also talking with the officer, all while his hand are in the air and he lies on back. After the officers withdrew their weapons, Kinsey explained that it was not necessary, as his patient only had a truck. Ensuing the fired shots, the officers handcuffed Kinsey, checked him for weapons, and left him on the ground without medical help for 20 minutes. When the officer was asked why he shot Kinsey, he replied that he didn 't know.
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).
In the year 2010, 26-year-old Kenzie Houk was found murdered in her bed. Kenzie was shot in her head. Kenzie was also eight months pregnant when she was murdered (nydailynews.com). The person who found the body was her 4-year-old daughter. When the police officers arrived at the scene, they searched to see if anybody broke into the house. The police officers were unable to find any force entry. The police officers even thought it was a possibility that Kenzie ex-boyfriend could of committed the murder, but they were unable to connect him to the murder. Eventually, the police officers found out that the murderer was none other then the 11-year-old Jordan Anthony Brown.
An emergency call came in at 9:45 am made by Doug Greene who is a neighbor of the victim Anna Garcia claiming that he had not seen Anna Garcia since her normal morning walk at 6:30 am the previous morning and that the dog had been barking for 2 hours, he had also mentioned that Anna Garcia was wearing a sweater when he had seen her the previous morning while experiencing a 92 degree heat wave. Mr.Greene had called Anna’s telephone with no answer, and had also rang the doorbell with no answer. The EMT and local police had arrived to the scene at 9:56 am, needing to break the door down. EMS discovered Anna Garcia laying face down, dead.
A hispanic female named Anna Garcia who was 38 years of age, was found dead on the date of August 14, 2015 in Anytown, U.S.A. She was 64 inches in height and 165 pounds. The case of Anna Garcia first began on a hot, 92°F summer morning. A next door neighbor, Doug Greene, had decided to call police at 9:45 am to place his concern about Garcia because of her dog that had been barking all morning, which was highly unusual. Being that he had not seen or heard from her since the previous morning, he called her, then went over to her house to make sure nothing was wrong. Both the police and EMT arrived at 9:56 am. When questioned by police, Greene informed them that he had seen her the previous morning around 6:30 am walking her dog. He also stated that he saw her wearing a sweater, which was found odd because of the current heat wave. The front door had to be broken down in order to enter the house. Upon entering the house, they found Garcia lying face down in the entry hallway. Inside, the house was a temperature of 73°F. Immediately after Anna Garcia was
On a Wednesday evening at 9:05pm in Minnesota, an African American couple was driving in their car with a four-year-old daughter in the back seat. After being pulled aside by Joronimo Yanez, a police officer, for a broken tail light, Philando Castile, the driver, stopped his car. Officer Yanez asked Castile for his license and registration. Castile handed the officer his car license and registration, but also told him he has a weapon in his car, for which he was licensed to carry. Officer Yanez immediate words were “Don’t move!” As Castile put his hands up where the officer could clearly see them, officer Yanez shot him repeatedly four times in the arm to the horror of Castile, his girlfriend, and their four-year-old daughter. Completely stupefied by the event, Castile’s girlfriend, Reynolds, took out her phone and began streaming an online video directly to Facebook showing the immediate aftermath of the incident. In the video, Reynolds narrates the accident’s story and exclaimed, “You shot four bullets into him, sir. He was just getting his license and registration, sir. Please don’t tell me he’s dead.” While recording, her four-years-old asked “Mammy, I’m scarred!” Reynolds answered, “It’s okay, I’m right here with you.” Officer Yanez returned and ordered Reynolds on her knees out of the car. Still being recorded, the other officers on the scene asked officer Yanez of his mindset, checking if he’s ok, completing ignoring the true victim, Castile. Castile was left bleeding
Contrary to what many people believe, America’s health status is not quite “up-to-par,” to say the least. Over forty-seven million people in the United States lack health insurance; that is more than 15% of our nation’s population! At first this disturbing truth seems impossible to believe, being as America is one of the most technologically advanced and economically developed countries in the world. “We spend trillions of dollars per year on medical care. That’s nearly half of all the health dollars spent in the world. But we’ve seen our statistics. We live shorter, often sicker lives than almost every other industrialized nation. “We rank 30th in [global] life expectancy” (Adelman 2008). Knowing this brings rise to the question: why are
The first article I read was “Wounded Manhattan Beach Police Officer Recounts Chaos in Las Vegas.” The article was about police officer who gets shot at the Las Vegas shooting while trying to save people. The shooting was at a concert and nobody heard the gun fire till someone was shot. During the shooting there were multiple victims. A lot of people died, but some just got wounded. Even though the police officer got shot he still wanted to help out and did. Many lives were saved including his.
Sandra Bland is described by her family as a strong-spoken, confident woman whose name has unfortunately fallen victim to a statistic on police brutality. On July 13, 2015, just three days after she had been incarcerated, 28-year-old Sandra Bland was found hanged by her throat with a plastic trash bag in her cell at Waller County Jail at 9:00 am. There has been much controversy surrounding the uncertainty whether if Bland had committed suicide, of which her autopsy suggests, or if the suspicious authorities of Waller County Jail may have played a key factor in her death. As theories evolve surrounding Bland’s death, her encounter with the Texas Trooper who imprisoned Bland has become the main discussion under which circumstances did the officer
This article by The New York Times gives further details on the shooting of an unarmed man in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The shooting occurred when a non-compliant individual was fatally shot by Officer Betty Jo Shelby. This reports on the recent finding that the individual had a high level of the drug PCP in his body.
Patrol officials have identified the Culver Creek boarding school student who was killed on I-65, as 16-year old Alaska Young. On I-65 just south of downtown, a truck had jackknifed and ended up blocking both lanes and a police showed parking next to the truck. Alaska was driving by herself and was heading towards the accident. Apparently the car was on cruiser whiling crashing into the police car. The cop in the police car luckily got out of his car in time to avoid being hit. Authorities says Alaska was very intoxicated and resulting in her not being able to swerve around the police car when it’s lights were flashing. After, colliding with the cop car, the policemen ran over to see if she was alive and oaky. As soon as he got over there,
I ended up running into Officer Seiler as I was backing up. The dog turned and started running to my left and behind me. I heard gun fire come from my left side and saw Officer Gabel firing his handgun towards the dog several times. I yelled at him to stop and saw the dog fall shortly after that on the sidewalk. One of the Animal Control Officers was grabbing his arm and I asked if he was ok. He told me yes and removed his hand so we could see his injury. The injury was to his left forearm and appeared to be a small cut. I asked him if he wanted EMS to come and he said he was ok. He thought it was a richochet or possibly a piece of glass or rock flying up and striking his arm. They called WPD and Sgt. Crouch #1740 and Officer Levasseur #2482 arrived on scene. I briefed them of the situation and they said they were doing an occupational injury/outside assist. Sgt. Crouch had me explain to him where everyone was standing and where the dogs were at. He asked if we were all ok and I told him yes. We started looking around and found two windows that were struck in Corbin. I could hear the alarm going off inside and I notified dispatch. I had Officer Seiler go into Corbin and disarm the alarm. Officer Seiler looked inside Corbin for the bullets but couldn't find any of them. Sgt. Crouch told me that they were going to take the Animal Control Officer to get checked out since it was a work injury and he was glad it wasn't any worse. I went and apologized to Patrick Murphy who was the Animal Control Officer. He said he understood and the officer was
Ava walked hand and hand with her mother towards her bedroom. Her upper lip trembling in fright as they approached the young girl's door. Her palms became cold and clammy in her mothers as they entered the purple room. The increased rate of Ava’s heart could be heard by her mother, the faint “lub dub, lub dub” of her heart was growing increasing louder as they got closer to the room.
On April 24, 2016, at around 12:00 noon, an attack took place at the Foster Beach for dogs. Olivia Witulski, Miranda Stillwell, and Miranda’s dog were trying to have a nice day at the beach. Miranda’s dog, Sparkle, was running around and playing with the other dogs, while Olivia and MIranda were laying on their towels. Out of nowhere, three dogs came charging at the girls. We can see later that the dogs meant no harm, but that’s not what the girls thought. When the dogs charged at them the girls had no idea they just wanted to play. Dogs were slobbering all over Olivia’s arm, and Miranda had gotten kicked in the head. The girls tried kicking, screaming, and rolling away from the dogs. Their owners eventually came to help the girls, and pulled
This short story has a clear massage to its readers, sometimes life forces us to make life-changing decisions and doing what’s right can be difficult. There are no shortcuts, no easy way out of a horrible situation (line 74, “No discharge, no paperwork, nothing official to report,”). Is like the officer in this story, who wanted to make the best of a worst imaginable thing, dead, but in the end, somehow makes it worse. It’s not a coincidence that the main character is a police officer, because it heightens that he has a responsibility in this case a big responsibility to the local community. He also has a responsibility to the family dog. We as readers can see this in the way, that we all have a responsibility to someone. And we need to live up to your responsibility, radar it’s about being a good sibling, parent, teacher or