You see human beings doing stuff for no reason or just because they feel like it. Most never have a reason they just do it out of spite. People minding their business still get caught in the crossfire, “A justified fear of Trump does not justify violence against an individual just trying to leave a rally.”(Newkirk), you could be minding your own business and still get caught in the middle of violence. Protesters see people fighting in protest because it gets heated and people just gets irritated with each other, most are so stubborn that they only believe what they believe. When violence occurs more violence follows. While some others think that violence is justified there are multiple reasons why it’s not. Violence is a problem. …show more content…
They are not being violent on their own. These Trump supporters have a leader who we all know. This group of bikers who support trump beat up a man because trump yelled, “get him out of here” (Nguyen) because he was waving a Russian flag. Trump himself said he would punch a protester if they were close enough to him. These supporters are being told what to do. Knowing that Trump says ‘get him out of here’ makes the supporters violent means something. People are full of rage and are taking it out on someone or something. Both supporters and protesters are guilty of violence. It’s not okay. As soon as someone doesn’t agree with the other person extreme measures happen. These people are just full of anger that’s why they are protesting. Trump made these people angry by being racist towards them. He has called the immigrants of Mexican descent rapist and threatens them. These people have a right to be mad. Trump keeps making it worse by saying things that he shouldn’t say. He is openly racist and doesn’t care. He is unleashing something bigger than expected. He doesn’t realize what he is doing. America is not a safe place anymore and it has grown even more dangerous for the second continuous year now. This violence we see has not been given a reason for why this is happening. The only thing we see is Trump is getting these protesters and supporters riled up these protest have just gotten too far out of hand. America can no longer handle
Since 2013 there have been 268 school shootings in the United States alone (Everytown for Gun Safety, 2017). School gun violence is becoming increasingly probable. It is imperative that our government and our citizens come together to create a solution and implement a plan to prevent and stop the occurrence of school gun violence. The solution, for some, is to bring more guns into the picture by arming teachers, principals, and other school officials, or place armed police officers at school sites (LaPierre, 2015). For others, the solution is to make even stricter laws regarding gun use or to get rid of these weapons altogether. These certainly are drastic options; I must say that I do believe the true solution is to increase the focus on mental health services and by extension, mental health awareness. There is simply not enough focus on the mental health of our youth and of our students. Mental health services are the most important step to making schools safer, because this solution touches the entire problem of violence at its root level.
As many are aware, protesters gathered recently in Charlottesville, Virginia, for a “Unite the Right” protest. The protest quickly escalated from a peaceful rally to a violent outcry.
Moving over to, all things considered on what does the events taken place in Charlottesville , what what has been going on in America have in common is President Donald Trump. “ If these were normals times , even if you believed a press conference to be typical American racial theater, you’d expect the President of the United States to condemn unequivocally the hatred and bigotry, of the white nationalist, gathered in Charlottesville. But these aren’t normal times.” [ Eddie Gluade What White America Must Do Next]. Concisely stated by Eddie Gluade’s What White America Must Do Next, is an article that covers President Trump’s approach on Charlottesville. These are unorthodox times and we have have a President who is also unorthodox in the way he handled the tragic event when he did not acknowledge
The quote is that the people who saw on the social media wanted to come help them since it seemed like they really need the help and support of everyone. It’s not okay that they are struggling. Some even drive over 24 hours so they can come and support. It’s not okay with what police are doing. Bringing out all these unnecessary weapons when all the protestors are doing is protecting something valuable they have.
Susan Gregg Koger is the co-founder of ModCloth, a simple online shop where she sold the vintage finds she could no longer fit in her closet. She made a sale her first day. Today, ModCloth is one of the fastest-growing fashion and home ecommerce ventures to emerge in the past decade. The company did more than one hundred million dollars in sales last year, and is growing at a rate of 40 percent annually. The story of ModCloth begins when Eric, Susan’s then boyfriend, started a development business in 2000. They went to Carnegie-Mellon in Pittsburg, and Susan stumbled over all these amazing pre-worn items at vintage sales. Eric had all of the technical skills to help Susan launch an ecommerce site. They thought they would get all of these gems
Numerous times, protests start off as untroubling. In fact, they are beneficial to a certain extent, for they “provide a vent to society and also allow governments to understand better the issues their citizens are facing” (UN News Centre 2012). However, often these protests cross this blurry line and are rendered violent, causing danger to the American people. A recent example of a protest transforming into a riot was the Anti- Trump protest in Portland. These protests started off as being peaceful and allowed the protesters to express their opinions on the issue. However, the protesters eventually became so invested in the matter that it quickly mutated into a riot with people smashing windows, kicking cars, and vandalizing buildings (USA TODAY 2016) .This rapid change from peace to violence is a result of the blurry line between what is considered peaceful and what is considered violent. Due to the few restrictions on both the right to petition and assemble, what is perceived as violent is open to interpretation. More specifically, the protesters may not have deemed that kicking cars and smashing windows was violent; thus, they proceeded with these clearly dangerous activities anyways. Since the unlimited nature of both of these rights leaves a massive gray area in regards to what is
From Romania, Mircea Eliade, studied religion from the profane to the sacred. His theory of hierophanies is broken into two axioms to be better understood. The first axiom is that religion is its own thing and is not caused by something else. The second axiom relates to describing religion. Unlike other people Eliade believes that “times and places may differ, he would say, but concepts are often the same”(231). Pals’ uses Euclid’s math as an example that Euclid’s math is the same as it was before it's just used in a different time period. From an excerpt of Eliade’s The Sacred and the Profane we are given the difference between the profane and the sacred; the profane is the regular day to day activities however the sacred are out of the ordinary
Flag burners tend to burn the flag because they are angry for many different reasons. One reason they do it is because they express their grief over the violent deaths being suffered in this country. People get offended because they pay attention to the “White on Black crime.” That is when the “Black lives matter” chaos came into place. It is coincidental that the cops happen to be white and the people getting hurt or even killed by the cops are african american. If a cop tells you an order, you must follow it even if you do not agree. If you don’t follow a cops order, that gives the cop the right to give consequences. Another way flag burning can cause violence is that it can cause damage to public places. It can cause damage by the angry people setting objects on fire, fighting one another, tearing up cars and buildings, etc. To stop the rioting, we all need to come together as a nation instead of harming one another and be civil people. Just because everybody see’s different perspectives doesn’t mean we all aren’t the same, we are all human and need to stop killing each other because we believe
This just in Donald J Trump is our president there is no amount of protesting that is going to change that peaceful or other wise. We the people of the United States of America voted him in. If you did not vote for him and do not believe him to be your President
Some people believe that due to the First Amendment rights that we have and they do not fully understand that they can riot and assemble unlawfully. With the recent protests that have turned violent due to the recent Antifa movement this is evident. This group has become a threat against the law and order within the communities that these events occur. Their acts of violence and vandalism against communities are unlawful and whenever these acts are observed the offenders should always be arrested. Even in the past here in Nashville and other cities across the U. S. where protestors have blocked Interstate highways, the protests have become unlawful due to these acts that disturb the peace. The blocking of the highway not only puts the residents
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.
The history of the United States has been characterized by brutality of violence based on race. Many historians have neglected most of the episodes of this important national history as it helps people to learn where they have come from and where they are headed to. Race riots are characterized by violence between two or more racial groups and the end result in most cases is death. For a protest to be called a riot, there must be a group of people with a common agenda and may occur between police and the public or between two or more racial groups.
This video shows how protesters block all lanes of I-94. The police officers gave them twenty five warning to leave. Yet, some people chose to stay and continue to protest. According to the police, the protest turned into a riot and some people threw rocks and bottles on the freeway. During this act of violence, twenty one police officers were injured. In order to cease those protestors, the police officer used non-irritant smoke and sprayed mace. At the end of the protest, 50 people were arrested for three degree rioting.
Violent protest is divisive - it turns citizens away from seeing reason in your stance, costs taxpayers money for police protection and control and drives people strongly to one side or the other of the issues protested. The reason that protests are often seen as dangerous is because they can turn sour as the result of people using this power and ability to demonstrate as a reason to injure and destroy, often without any connection to the original protested topic. Protesters have been known to break shop windows, throw bricks at cars and even injure or kill one another in extreme situations. Peacekeepers attempting to protect the citizens and prevent escalation are often vilified and presented as brutalizing peaceful protesters.
School violence, in recent history, seems to have taken the United States by storm. Be it a shooting, such as the Columbine High School shooting in 1999, the inappropriate relationships between teacher and student, such as Stephanie Figueroa whom initiated one such relationship with her 11-year-old karate student, or the multiple fights we see on social media that take place in schools. With each passing week, we see a new story that falls in one of these categories. Today, we look at the types of, causes of and how to prevent violence in what should be a safe place and second home for our youth.