Narrative Essay: The Case Of Michael Brown

I was very shy and awkward during my adolescent years. A cringe-worthy yet endearing moment of reflection of suppressed memories. I was the fourth child out of five, to two immigrant parents. We were a low income family with no budget for vacations or expensive school trips. Socially I was not accepted. I was always the outlier. Subsequently, I was bullied and it impaired my childhood for quite sometime. I felt as if I was sentenced to social death that I just could not replevy before the end of adolescent years. Other students taunted and jeered at me habitually; even with uncontrollable factors. I specifically remember my Haitian heritage being one of the domineering methods of my torture. I recall that being subjected

One night in a Florida gated community a young man named Trayvon Martin, was walking down the streets of a mostly white community, stopped by George Zimmerman who was a neighborhood watch resident.Mr. Martin was stopped for being “suspicious” and “up to no good” according to Mr.Zimmerman. Trayvon was fatally shot by Mr. Zimmerman out of “self defense”. Really “Self defense” he was carrying a bag of skittles and a Arizona Tea. This young man was nothing but harmless but was victimed for being African-American.George Zimmerman would rather later stand trial for the murder of Trayvon Martin was found not guilty,until April 2012 he was found guilty of second degree murder.Although there are positives and negatives of this argument, the Black Lives

The shooting of Trayvon Martin is one of the most controversial incidents of the decade. Trayvon Martin was a young African American teen fallen victim to the evil of racial discrimination. One evening while walking home Trayvon was shot by a hispanic man named George Zimmerman. Zimmerman was on neighborhood patrol on a rainy day in Florida, and he noticed a black male walking through the neighborhood. He immediately jumped to conclusions and called the police who told him to leave the man walking alone because there was no need to follow him anyway, but Zimmerman did not listen. He confronted the young black male and after a little altercation Zimmerman shot the boy in an act of “self defense”. Zimmerman killed someone because of a profile created based on the color of someone's skin. Now besides the fact that a young boy was killed due to racial profiling, what’s even worse is the

I and a community of others are outraged that Zimmernan was initially interviewed and let go with no charges filed more than six weeks after the shooting, Zimmerman still had not been charged with a crime, igniting a national outcry over what many considered to be state-sanctioned vigilantism. For many African-Americans the case had even deeper implications: Trayvon Martin, who had no criminal record, had been doing nothing more suspicious than walking. Many saw his death as another tragic example of racial profiling, the latest in a seemingly endless succession of unarmed Black men shot for appearing suspicious: Robbie Tolan, who survived being shot in his Bellaire, Texas, driveway in 2009 by a cop who thought he was trying to steal his own car; Amadou Diallo, shot and killed in 1999 in the Bronx when police mistook his wallet for a gun; Sean Bell, killed in 2008 on his wedding day in Queens, New York, by cops who thought he had a gun; Oscar Grant III, fatally shot by an Oakland transit cop on New Year's Day in 2009 while restrained and on the ground; and now Trayvon, with only a pack of Skittles and a can of iced tea in his possession, shot dead on a Florida street.(Amber, 2012)

Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray, Tamir Rice, Sandra Bland, Sean Bell and unfortunately so much more were senselessly murder because of the color their skin. “Garner, an asthmatic father of six, was seen yelling, “I can’t breathe!” 11 times before losing consciousness and No one have been charged criminally” (Citation). In this quote from Eric Garner, he is fatally choked to death by a police officer , he yelled that he couldn't beneath and officer continued to applying pressure to his neck. George Zimmerman, had been found not guilty of shooting dead an unarmed black 17-year-old named Trayvon Martin (Citation). In this quote from cnn a unarmd teenage was walking home and George shot him dead and George Zimmer was acquitted from all criminal charges. The destruction of black lives needs to stop immediately. African Americans are being hunted down and they are using the color of their skin as a way of avoiding responsibility of their actions. African Americans should not worry about being killed when they walk down the street to buy some

I am a member of the African-American community. My mother and my father have taught me to embrace my culture and most importantly to embrace the color of my skin because that is apart of me and that is who I am. I have recently realized that embracing myself as a Black female consists of educating myself about my people in the Black community. In the past, Black people have faced Black anti-voting laws, slavery, and segregation through Jim Crow Laws. Unfortunately, these principles still exist in modern day society disguised as mass incarceration due to the War on Drugs. As an African American, I have witnessed the mass incarceration of African-Americans in my community. This never ending cycle leads to systematic criminalization within the

17 year old african american boy Trayvon Martin was going into a 7 Eleven to get a snack before he flew back home. He walked out of the store and was being stalked by a strange man who turned out to be a volunteer cop. The cop had then told the station that there was suspicious juvenile. The police said not to pursue but he did anyways. He then shot Trayvon in the chest instantly killing him. This was not the only occasion that a police officer beat up an african american for no reason at all. Police brutality towards african americans in america needs to end. Excessive police brutality towards african americans is an issue/ongoing problem that needs to be addressed because it is unjust. Readers can expect to learn the cause and reason why this happens.

This issue goes all the way back to Martin Luther King and the Rosa Parks incident. There is a movement today dedicated to ending the killing of black people by racist police officers. This is the Black Lives Matter (BLM) Movement. Dani McClain explains that the demands of BLM are to put an “end to the disproportionate killing of black people by law-enforcement officials and vigilantes, and [to] seek to root out white supremacy wherever it lives” (McClain). McClain explains that there are racist cops that kill black people because they think that they are above the law. According to McClain, BLM originated when Zimmerman was not charged for the death of Trayvon Martin. Protesters gathered and BLM was created to stop the killing of blacks as seen in fig.

This case gave me an insight on things I never expected to be true I never knew a person could get away with murder/manslaughter. This case was greatly affected by race. George Zimmerman saw a young black man going home and for some reason thought he was a threat he probably sterotyped Trayvon, the moment he saw him. There was no reason to pull a gun Zimmerman was much bigger than Trayvon if there was a scuffle. Also since Zimmerman was never charged he has gone on to hurt other people such. George Zimmerman has anger issues and should have had more extensive screening. This has been proven by the following incidents:

James Brown is best known as the Godfather of soul music, for he was a creative singer, wrote amazing music, and was also a good bandleader. He was known for the best funk and soul music during his lifetime because he had to work really hard to be in the top billboard. James Brown vocal and musical style had a major impact to many modern artists because his music represents a way to express what he had gone through in his life time. Thus, so James Brown would be always remembered as the king of R&B, or The Godfather of soul

Michael Brown’s death, whether or not it was justified, was not an isolated event. In December, Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old boy playing with a toy gun in the park, was shot by a police officer and died the next day. In July, Eric Garner, a black man, was placed in a fatal chokehold by a Staten Island police officer. Chokeholds are illegal for the NYPD. On December 3, the Staten Island grand jury case ended in a non-indictment of the police officer (Hawthorne). Some argue that these deaths were unfortunate side effects of an otherwise justice-driven police system, but others strongly believe that they are events akin to hate crimes.

Are there really unseen and undocumented rules for prosecuting certain races? The report that surfaced form the Michael Brown case in Missouri was astonishing to some, but not to the residents of the Ferguson community. Michael Brown was an 18 year old high school black male student killed by former Ferguson Missouri police officer Darren Wilson, a white police officer. The issue seems simple until you pull back the covers and really examine what happened in the case. To begin, it is in dispute if Mike Brown stole some items from a store. It is also a dispute if he tried to take a gun from Officer Wilson. It is not in dispute that Mike Brown fled. According to the Missouri Law Review, volume 42, Issue 3 from the Summer of 1977 in article

Last year, blacks were killed very often and in bad demeanors by cops. Alton Sterling was pinned to the ground, hands up unarmed, was shot twice in the chest and died. Nothing happened to those cops because they say it was self-defense. Another incident where a black male was pulled over his hands clearly shown on his steering wheel, was shot dead with his wife and son in the car. Trayvon Martin was shot and killed in his own neighborhood just because of his appearance, the man was set

I, James Ewell Brown Stewart, a proud Virginia calvary officer, cannot stand aside during this pivotal trail, one in which the life of the cold-blooded murder John Brown will be decided. The rebellion at Harpers Ferry was a treasonous act unlike any I have ever witnessed. Why should I pardon the life of a man who committed acts of great injustice, one among many being the senseless murder of man? More so, who am I to ignore the presence of stashed weapons my fellow soldiers and I uncovered within the Maryland farmhouse the accused has so secretly used as a base? I simply cannot stand for an allowance of leniency towards a man who shirks both law and moral decency in the name of treason.

Adam brown was a patriotic american. He born in the small town of hot springs he was raised by a quaint mom and pop family with a brother. Growing up he was a wild child he was never scared of anything being, facing a loaded shotgun of a man who had just shot one of his best friends. Or when he wanted to jump into a steam off of a bridge from a moving vehicle and he did it. Later in life he met a girl who was nothing but trouble. she lead him away from the light and down the dark rabbit hole of addiction. Until to the point where adam himself knew every single crack house or drug den in hot springs he was going down a path to wind up dead of a overdose in a ditch somewhere. He was stealing from anyone who didn't have their possessions