How Does Oscar Grant: Can We Really Get Better?

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).

A man walks into oncoming traffic and is instantly killed leaving Mathew Cade devastated. But he soon learns that the man was shot just before he was run over making it imperative to investigate the case as a murder rather than as an accident. OTHER BOOK SERIES YOU MAY

The book that I read is called LockDown By Walter Dean Myers. This book was written in 2010. Walter was born on August 12, 1937 and had seven siblings. Walter Dean Myers is known for writing fiction,nonfiction, and poetry books for young adults and children. He is a New York Times bestselling author and the winner of the first Michael L. Printz Award. He lives in Jersey City, New Jersey, with his family. Unfortunately Walter died on July 1,2014, he has one son named Christopher Myers. Books that he has also wrote is Bad Boy, Street Love,Monster and other books with young adult drama.

Jasper jones is intriguing novel by Craig Silvey it revolves around the mysterious death the mayors daughter Laura Whishhart (jaspers girlfriend). Whose brutally abused body is found hanging from a tree in a clearing that has been adopted by jasper jones? And who has bad reputation due to his race and the fact that he has to to steal in order to survive due to the lack of parents. So jasper enlist the help of Charlie Bucktin an intelligent teenager to help hide Lauras body and get to the bottom of this alleged murder. Jasper is forced to to hide her body instead of giving her a proper funeral as the residents who reside in Corrigan are ignorant, hypocritical, narrow-minded, racist people who fail to give jasper a fair judgement of

It was the beginning of October, and a 17-year-old teenager was hiding by a chain link fence. He had just stolen a purse from a nearby house, and a neighbor had called the police. An officer by the name of Elton Hymon had arrived and was trying to arrest the kid, whose name was Edward Garner. Garner began to climb the 6-foot fence, and Officer Hymon,

The film Fruitvale Station written and directed by Ryan Coogler, tells the story of a young African American man that was shot and killed by a white police officer on a subway platform. The film is based on the true story of Oscar Grant, who at the age of 22 years old was killed by a police officer on the Fruitvale station platform in San Francisco, California. The film shows how Oscar lived a tough life, but still had a caring heart. At the start of the New Year, Oscar wanted to change his life, and make better decisions. Unfortunately, he was a part of a situation that led to him being in police custody, and shot by a police officer. Oscar Grant’s death caused many protests and riots in the Bay Area against police brutality.

The book, Acceleration, by Graham McNamee, is about a boy named Duncan, who works at the city’s Lost and Found, discovers a leather diary that belongs to a serial killer that Duncan nicknamed Roach, who is on the loose. Duncan finds out that Roach is targeting humans, specifically women, and tries to find the killer and stop him before it is too late. The main topic of this story is that mystery can make us do the unexpected. Once, the killer writes, “This is kids’ stuff… Need something BIGGER” (Mcnamee 47). Also, when Duncan was searching up books about murders, a certain passage from a book caught his eye, “Mason Lucas has a name for this ‘escalation of increasingly destructive aberrant behavior’... He calls it acceleration”(Mcnamee 88).

The book is written by Steve Bogira, who is a reporter for a newspaper is Chicago. He goes into the courtroom 302 whose judge

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In the novel a Lesson Before Dying, the character Jefferson has a bigger impact on Grant’s life. Grant did not reflect on life until he starts to visit Jefferson. By the end of the novel Grant has hope, willingness to stay committed and saw the importance of his job. At the start of the novel, Jefferson's god mom wants Grant to go make Jefferson into a man. Grant responds is “Jefferson is already died” and “we did all we could do for Jefferson” (14).

Born on July 29, 1909 in Jefferson City, Missouri, Chester Himes faced a plethora of hardships. At a young age, he witnessed racism. Chester Himes’ brother, Joseph Himes, was in a life-threatening accident when chemicals exploded in his face, leaving him blind. Due to the Jim Crow Laws, Joseph was declined treatment at the hospital. Additionally, Chester Himes fell down an elevator shaft while at work. In school, Chester Himes felt as if he was an outsider; he was lonely, which eventually led to his involvement with violence. Despite facing a twenty-five year prison sentence, Chester Himes surprisingly became a famous, detective novelist! Such tragedies that Chester Himes experienced cultivated him as a notorious, respectable author!

In the early hours of the morning on New Year’s Day, the BART officers were responding to a call about a fight on the Bay Area Rapid Transit train coming from San Francisco. BART officers detained Oscar Grant and a few other passengers at the Fruitvale BART Station. Officer Johannes Mehserle and a fellow officer were restraining Oscar Grant who was lying on the ground with handcuffs on. Mehserle drew his pistol and shot Grant one time in the back. Grant was unarmed, he was pronounced dead the next day a Highland Hospital in Oakland.

Finally Grant deserved to hear that! Grant has pushed his loved ones aside and by doing that he hurts them more.Though Grant is going through problems of his own, by no means does it gives him the right to release his anger and frustrations on the people that care about him. In a way he has developed hatred because he feels inferior to white people and in his eyes he viewed his aunt as his enemy for allowing that. Truly Grant is entitled for all the wrong reasons, he most likely never realized the sacrifices his aunt has made for him. To some extent Grant treats uneducated black people like how white people treat black people. He feels that he is above them and Reverend Ambrose puts Grant in his place during this passage. Attending school

Imagine waking up one-day eager to greet a loved one who’s been away for a while only to find out that their life was stolen by complete strangers. It could cause one to take some crazy actions; it could even make an assassin. In the novel American Assassin the girlfriend of college lacrosse star Mitch Rapp is killed in the Pan Am Lockerbie terrorist attack. This prompts him to put his sensational mind and body through rigorous training to become an assassin for the United States government. With his newfound talents Mitch travels around the world executing terrorists and criminals. This journal will predict whether Mitch will let revenge get the best of him, question how Mitch is as talented as he is, and evaluate one of his personality traits.

June 19, 1975, began a killing spree in Colorado Springs when a soldier from Ft.Carson and his friend who worked on base shot a cook in the head. He only had fifty cents. The next week they stabbed a Fort Carson soldier with a bayonet. On July 1, 1975, they killed Kelsey Grammer’s sister. After raping her, they stabbed her throat and left her out in a trailer park to die. That night they went to Fort Carson and called a cab from a club. That pick up would be Dad’s last. Knowing he was in trouble, Dad called dispatch to ask the distance and the fare to Butts Field, a strange request for a seasoned cabbie on such a small military base. All the fares were thirty five cents except the one to their airport. One of the guys grabbed my dad and slashed his throat from ear to ear, leaving him for dead on the side of the road. They drove the cab through the housing area, across one of its inhabitants front lawns. He had driven a taxi in New York and had his money taken before, but never harmed. Mom laughed hysterically when she told me that even with witnesses, their attorney argued it was too dark to adequately identify them.The local police investigated Karen’s murder, but my dad’s killing had taken place on a military base, putting the federal agents in charge. The murderers were given the death sentence for Karen and the other murders, so the feds decided not to investigate my dad’s case.