Fort Burma Airport Shooting Research Paper

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).

On July 26, 2013, Sammy Yatim, a mentally ill youth was shot nine times and killed by a police officer. He boarded a streetcar and pulled out a switchblade, which he used to threaten passengers (Rogan, 2014). The police arrived shortly after all the passengers had safely exited. Constable James Forcillo was one of the first cops on the scene, and had ordered his partner to radio for a Taser to subdue Yatim. While Yatim was still in the streetcar, Forcillo fired his gun. Officers rushed into the streetcar to taser him and then attempted CPR. However, Yatim was pronounced dead early in the morning of July 27 (Rogan, 2014).

Two people were killed as a result of the officer. Quintonio LeGrier, 19 years old, and 55-year-old Bettie Jones were both shot and killed. Reports state that LeGrier was acting oddly and was carrying a metal bat around his father’s apartment. His mother stated that he was a college student who was suffering from unknown mental health issues.

On the night of February 4th 1999, Amadou Diallo, an unarmed and innocent African immigrant, was gunned down in a hail of 41 bullets while standing in the vestibule of his own apartment building in the Bronx. The officers responsible for Diallo's death were part of New York Police Department's "elite" Street Crime Unit. The plain-clothes officers approached Diallo and pulled their weapons. When Diallo, probably believing they were thieves, pulled out his wallet, the "elite" officers opened a barrage of 41 bullets on the unarmed black man.

On October 1, 2017 a little after 10 p.m. Stephen Paddock started firing his gun at a crowd attending a country music festival in Las Vegas. Paddock was perched on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino. He killed 58 people and wounded hundreds more. Paddock eventually ceased fire and ended up taking his own life in his hotel room. Since some time has passed, investigators have been trying to create and update the timeline of this horrific tragedy. New details from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department on Monday have now turned the focus to the six minutes before Paddock fired his first shot on the festival crowd. Jesus Campos, a security guard, happened to be on the 32nd floor shortly before 10 p.m. He was investigating an alarm indicating that a door to a room - not Paddock’s -

Bang! A bullet left the chamber of a handgun, disrupting San-Francisco’s touristy promenade into chaos. Only one person was killed, an innocent woman named Kate Steinle. Kate was just walking with her father until Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez pulled the trigger which ended her nice pleasant stroll with her father and her life on that beautiful evening. The killer, Juan Francisco Lopez- Sanchez is an illegal immigrant that was never legally permitted to carry a firearm in the State of California in the first place, but somehow he got a hold of one and shot Kate Steinle in the back. He was deported to Mexico five times, and has a criminal record of committing several crimes, and recently murdering Kate Steinle(Sakuma). This event sparked national

Upon Hasan’s graduation from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, he worked as a mental health provider with the Army Medical Corps. Hasan was assigned to Fort Hood and was responsible for providing care to soldiers in the readiness center which gave him access where various soldiers being processed to deploy or return from Iraq or Afghanistan. Hasan himself was scheduled to deploy to Afghanistan. Some reports suggest that Hasan’s reaction was impacted by stories he heard from soldiers returning from combat tours, in accordance with his profession (http://articles.latimes.com/2009/nov/07/nation/na-fort-hood-shootings7).

MSN news reporter Zachary Fagenson wrote an article discussing the events that occurred this past week at the Fort Lauderdale airport. Fagenson focused on the chargers the 26 year old ex military Esteban Santiago may face in court, as well as giving an overview of Santiago’s life and mental state.

Licho Escamilla was put to death for the fatal 2001 shooting of Christopher Kevin James who was trying to break up a brawl involving Escamilla. The 33-year-old prisoner was pronounced dead at 6:31 p.m. CDT — 18 minutes after the lethal injection began.

Intel had determined that everyone in the village was either Vietcong or a sympathizer. More than 500 women, children, and old men were killed (American Experience). Regardless of the devastation caused in the small hamlet, the public most likely would never have known about the event if it weren’t for two men, Ron Ridenhour and Ron Haeberle.

During the My Lai massacre in Vietnam, there were American soldiers who murdered over 300 civilians in the My Lai village. But also there were some who refused to participate in those types of murderous activities. Once the My Lai massacre was brought to the attention of American citizens, they were questioning why did some soldiers commit atrocities and some of the other soldiers did not?

​Cowardice. Lack of education. Immorality. These are only a few traits to describe the soldiers that went along with the My Lai Massacre in 1968. The My Lai Massacre took place during the Vietnam War in the southern village of My Lai. American troops were told to bomb and kill the “armed” and “dangerous” people of this village because it was believed to be “stronghold for forces of the National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam, or Viet Cong” (My Lai Massacre). These American troops then continued to follow orders although the villagers, mostly women, children and elders, were in fact not dangerous at all. Later, Hugh Thompson, an American soldier, was able to end this massacre. Since then, many people have studied and read up on the brutal actions of the American

Last Monday in the quaint town of Park City the residents were astonished to hear the news regarding a shooting that took place early Monday morning. The victim of the shooting was Jose Fernandez. He was 37 years old and worked and lived in Park City. The shooter James Henfling, a 27-year-old, Midvale resident, is being charged with a first-degree murder and could face three years to life in prison. Unfortunately, Fernandez died at a Salt Lake hospital around 5:45 pm. Additional charges may be added to Henfling due to the Fernandez’s death.

Stephan Paddock, sixty-four years old, killed at least 59 people at the Harvest Music Festival in Las Vegas making his mass shooting the new lead in deadly mass shootings. In just over a year we have set a for the deadliest shooting in America. Paddock shot multiple assault weapons from the 39 floor at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino for fifteen minutes into a crowd, injuring around 515 people and killing at least 59. The mysterious question everyone 's asking is, “ How did he manage to get a bulk of assault weapons through the lobby, up to the 39 floor?”

On September 11, 2004, Rodolfo, his wife, and two young children were visiting a Culiacán shopping mall. While leaving the mall, escorted by police commander Pedro Pérez Lopez, the family was ambushed by members of Los Negros, assassins for the Sinaloa Cartel. Rodolfo and his wife were killed, the policeman survived.[2]