Quintonio Legrier Research Paper

On the morning of the murder, police arrested Brenton Butler based on the identification by the victim’s husband. For hours to come after that, Butler became the victim of police brutality, a false confession, and unlawful interrogation processes. After being identified as the shooter, Butler was brought into the 10 by 10 interrogation room to be well, interrogated.

In 1994 officer Len Davis who was thirty years’ old and was accused of conspiring with Paul hardy 27 and Damon causey 24 in the murder of Kim grove that was 32 years old. Kim groves was gunned down on Alabo street a block from her home. According to authority’s Kim grove had made a complaint to the department’s

On December 20, 2014, both Liu and Ramos were sitting in their patrol car in Brooklyn when they were shot at point-blank range. Neither officer had the opportunity to draw their weapon as they were killed with no warning. The mentally derange killer traveled from Baltimore vowing to kill NYPD officers in retaliation for Eric Garner cases. After the ambush assassination, the killer fled the scene and onto a subway station. He killed himself as officers were closing

Police say that one person cut off the other and road rage happened. Witness say that the shooter Ronald Gesser shot McKnight threw the window and into McKnight’s car. Ronald then turned himself in and was not charged at all. Police then questioned witnesses and had a warrant for his arrest. He was later arrest and was charged for manslaughter. He will have to go to court and will

Witnesses and forensic evidence suggest that the officers fired a second round of shots after a brief pause and that Diallo's frame absorbed a majority of the bullets after having hit

Pierre was shot by a Chicago police officer on a Tuesday night. The Chicago police department mentioned that on Tuesday night they had to stop a vehicle

Last year, anti-police sentiment was stirred after white Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson shot unarmed black teenager Brown. Based on a probe by the U.S. Justice Department, Ferguson officials have racial bias towards the local population, majority of which are black Americans. However, Wilson was absolved in Brown’s shooting, the report relays.

According to Jess Colarossi, “Corey Jones, a well-known Florida drummer, was shot dead by an undercover Palm Beach Gardens police officer in an unmarked vehicle after leaving a late night gig” (Colarossi). Corey’s car was not able to work and he was pulled over to the side of the freeway to call for help. The police officer that shot Corey claims he was confronted by an armed individual when he was investigating a stranded vehicle. Without a body camera, there is no proof that the officer was confronted by an armed individual. Corey was on the phone with roadside assistance when the police officer shot and

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — U.S. District Judge Joseph Goodwin sentenced a Charleston man Thursday to 70 months in federal prison for gun crime, announced U.S. Attorney Carol Casto.

Many African-Americans are killed every year by police officers and their deaths impact not only their families but their community. However this past year the death of John Crawford and Tamir Rice impacted not only their family or community, but the entire nation. The case of Rice and Crawford isn’t nothing new, we always hear about a black person being shot by the police quite often. The only thing that makes these cases unique from rest is that they were both caught on tape. On November 22nd, 12-year-old Tamir Rice was playing in the park with a toy airsoft gun when officer Timothy Loehmann shot him two seconds after arriving to the scene. He died the next day due to a "gunshot wound of the torso with injuries of major vessel, intestines and pelvis” according to the autopsy results that were realized shortly after. 22-year-old African-American John

In the Spanish and Portuguese colonies there were many runaway slaves who formed surrounding villages around the fazendas. Groups of runaways slaves would gather in secluded areas, often blocked by thick forest and canopy, in addition there were many times that there would be a physical barrier between the runaway slave villages, often called the palenques or quilombos, and the towns of the spanish colonies. Quilombos would arise almost everywhere where there was a sugar cane engeiro and around the mines, they were common all throughout Central and Southern America. The villages sufficed themselves sustainability through a couple of practices; many of them gained great autonomy and achieved numbers of sometimes thousands. Some quilombos would ask for tributes of what the expeditioners had if they were to go through their territory. Some quilombos would also make alliances that would help ensure the survival of their villages; countries like England and the Netherlands were launching expeditions into the americas but they were against the monopolized trade systems that was being controlled by the

It was a very tragic situation, an officer should always know who/what they are shooting at every time they pull the trigger. It is a hard story to read and the radio talk amongst the police is even worse. After the officers had fired their weapons, in the graphic footage from one of the officers body cams, you could hear the two officers talking. An officer can be heard in the footage

In April, 2015, a white male police officer named Micheal Slager out of North Charleston, South Carolina, shot an unarmed African American male after pulling the male over for a faulty taillight. The officer claimed that he had feared for his life when the man stole the officers taser from him. Days later, the footage showed that the officer had pulled the man over. Then had a tussle with him and the male ran, then the officer shot him eight times in the back and walked up to the man and put what many speculated to be the taser in the man’s hands. After release of the video the officer was fired from the police force.

A St. Louis Police officer has been ambushed and killed by a gunman. The officer was ambushed during a shooting on Sunday. Around 7:30 p.m. Sunday night, a gunman pulled up in a silver car next to a marked Chevy Tahoe and opened fire. One of the officers who was involved in the shooting was a 46 year old man (no name given), who has served in the police force for over 20 years. He was shot twice in the head, but is expected to live. The officer who was killed was not trying to pull over the suspect, rather he was just driving down the road in his police vehicle. Also, evidence has concluded that the officer’s gun was never drawn. Once the suspect had shot the officer, he fled the crime. Search for the victim had involved the SWAT team, and

One of the best moments of my life would have to be the day I had my quincenera. I had looked forward to that day ever since I was a little girl. Every Hispanic girl dreams of the day she officially becomes a woman in the eyes of the church. We prepare for this day since our first communion when we are surrounded by family members and loved ones. Earning our quincenera is not an easy task. We have classes that we must accomplish through our church before we are essentially presented as a woman to our friends and family.