Diablo II’s twin suns burned Carlos Nieto’s exposed skin as he concentrated on the job before him. He tried not to gag from the smell of the dead police sniper next to him. Carlos pulled the bloody sniper rifle from under the dead officer’s body and checked the action. He was amused to see it was a locally manufactured copy of an old Earth .50 cal rifle. From his rooftop position on the on the apartment building he had a good view of the surrounding area. Hundreds of protesters advanced towards a line of police officers, protecting a government office. Carlos looked over the other rooftops and didn’t see any other police. He took positioned with the rifle barrel on top of the half wall bordering the roof and took aim. There was surprisingly little recoil as the rifle fired. Carlos watched as the police officer’s neck exploded, effectively decapitating the woman as her helmet fell to the ground with her head still in it. Carlos fired nine more times, while the police line held their position and opened fire on the protesters. That should be enough for today, Carlos thought smugly. He walked to the opposite side of the roof and removed a rope from his satchel then tied it to a pipe before throwing it down the side of the building. He reached into his satchel and dropped a protest pamphlet next to the rope before taking one last look around the roof then retreating to the roof exit. “Cease fire damn it!” Sgt. Kim Mulder shouted into her throat microphone. Before her, the
“Freeze, Police!” Sgt. Salazar commands from behind. Startled, the robber froze. “Hands up!” Hands were up in the air with the rifle still in one hand. “Drop your weapon!” Slowly placing the rifle on the ground, the robber swiftly rotated ready to shoot, when Sgt. Salazar close behind open fired at the chest.
was knocked in and a team of immigration officers ran into his house. They were holding guns and were wearing bulletproof vests. José ran from his house with the officers chasing him. He jumped on his motorcycle and raced down the street. He went to streets over at 90 mph, when he ran into a cop car that was turning onto the street. He flew off his bike and hit the ground. While he was getting up the officer ran to him.
The event of the tragic murder in the favela Vigario Geral was a horrid and uneducated idea from the military police as revenge for the gunning down of four policemen. In this senseless murder of innocent civilians, 21 people were killed in their homes. Police entered random houses, and shot multiple people and families without reservation, sorrow, or evidence that these innocent people had anything to do with the drug trade within the favela.
Estevan expresses the violent and unfair behavior of the police by saying, “in Guatemala City the police use electricity for interrogation. They have something called the ‘telephone,’ which is an actual telephone of the type they use in the field. It has its own generator, operated by a handle. He held up one hand and turned the other one in a circle in front of the palm…they disconnect the receiver wire and tape the two ends to your body. To sensitive parts.” (134) There were severe problems in Guatemala, specifically with the government and the police, which makes it clear as to why people desperately tried to escape from the oppression they faced. Intense raids took place and police officers tortured innocent people. According to Haver, the army in Guatemala accused villagers of being communists and later, people began to disappear and some were violently murdered. Many people like Estevan and Esperanza feared that the government, army, or police would view them as rebels and falsely consider them a threat, which could potentially lead to their death. To add to these crises in Guatemala, people were also threatened if the government believed they were concealing important information. Kingsolver says, "Ismene wasn't killed; She was taken" (136) because Esperanza and Estevan had to give up Ismene in order to retain valuable information. Since they knew people in
Week three I wrote about a shooting that took place in Dallas, Texas when gunshots were fired killing five police officers. It concluded with the gunman, 25 year-old Micah Xavier Johnson of Mesquite, Texas, being shot dead by the Dallas police after attempted negotiations failed. Videos showing two men shot by police in both Louisiana and Minnesota created protests in Dallas and lead to erupting fire. The gunman's house was warranted to search; bomb-making materials, ballistic vests, rifles, ammunition, and a personal journal of combat tactics were all found. The amount of shooters were unknown, but when the shooting started twenty protesters that had been carrying rifles scattered the area. It was a very well thought-out attack that took
Preventing the inevitable is unachievable. As soon as the gunman pulls the trigger to execute me, this city, its people, Unanimity and all that exists here will be abolished. I can only hope that the society the Union and Son wished to be formed, is successful. With no dictatorship or segregation. I can only hope that as the gun meets my body, I will, for the first time in my life, know what it means to have a purpose, one that isn’t created for
The correctional officer chose to become whistle Blowers after the death of inmate Preston Tate, and after the other officer said that he was the attacker in this situation. However, the correctional officers main allegations was of “brutality that the correctional officer were exploiting racial tensions to stage fights between inmates for entertainment of the prison guards (Holding, 2009)”. The prison tape shows all of this illegal behavior going on, and the two whistle blower watch other officer cohorts their coworkers in how to alter their reports to make it justifiable for the shooting that took place in the recreation yards.
Her black and white multi patterned sun dress fluttering with the breeze. She is alone and away from the rest of the protestors. She does not move or speak while delivering this action. She is not in possession of a weapon of any sort. With a serious face expression, she faces the intimidating police officers head on. A row of them in riot gear are lined up before her. Two of those officers who have charged towards her are just a few inches away. They are in the process of arresting and taking her away. Without fearing what is next Evans does not resist but makes a stance.
He then saw a lone arab from the previous group and confronted him. He fired at the arab, killing him with the first round, then shortly after fired 4 more. Meursault is arrested for the crime and questioned. Meursault told the investigators that the sun and the headache made him enraged and commit the crime out of impulse.
This story keeps the reader in suspense as they don’t know when the gun will go off. They should also feel horrified at how the gangs in America used to settle arguments and that the boys kept adding bullets into the gun, putting their life at risk just so that they wouldn’t let the other gang members down.
Raye refers to her own space which is disturbed, not by the arrival of individual refugees per second, but by the presence of a building, a physical solid object containing and restraining refugees, this building intrudes into Raye’s visual field and impinges and presses upon her metaphorical skin, the idyllic space surrounding her home. When she says she could have gone there and shot them with a gun, she is not literal as she concedes in her tag question. She is, however, pulling away metaphorically from the object of her disgust. The fact, the image of a gun carries a two-fold effect; the metaphorical “killing” of the detainees would effectible remove them, and the firing of the gun entails recoil, in which the holder of the gun is thrown backwards from the target being fired at.
Once the reader gets to the last part of the story, they realize that there’s something wrong. Every time the narrator watches the tape, he pauses it and stares at the terrorized faces of the witnesses. The narrator made the people “witness something deeply tragic.” (Godsave 199). He also “made them long for everything to be right again with the world.” (Godsave 199). A deeper look at this can provide readers with a feeling of unease. They realize that the narrator wants to have control over people. For this reason, he watches the video repetitively, but only pauses at the moment when he had control over people’s emotions and made them feel true terror. Another part of the video that the narrator mentions is what he yelled as he shot Lasalle. He recalls, “I had to improvise, to think of what I might say if I actually did want to shoot Lasalle.” (Godsave 198). The word “did” is the only word in the whole work that is italicised. This is because the narrator has actually thought about killing Lasalle. He knows what he would say because this is not the first time he has thought about doing it. This is not something everyone does. Overall, the narrator shows signs that he may be on the verge of being a
I really do think that government programs increase out-of-wedlock births and the reason why is because sometimes you get those parents, fathers mostly, who decide that the other spouse is okay on their own and that they will have help, especially by the government, so therefore some think it is okay to run away from the problem creating out-of-wedlock births.
From his rooftop position on the on the apartment building he had a good view of the surrounding area. Hundreds of protesters advanced towards a line of police officers, protecting a government office. Carlos looked over the other rooftops and didn’t see any other police. He took positioned with the rifle barrel on top of the half wall bordering the roof and took aim.
The problems arose when his power began to falter. He walked the cops down the street like a pack of domesticated dogs. The guns and badges were their collars. Magnetism was their leash. They had been shouting the usual commands: ‘halt,’ ‘stop,’ and ‘freeze’ chief among them. The stop sign was painted entirely red. Damian kept walking, bending the corner towards the library. But his pace was too quick—or maybe the cops were dragging behind. One broke away. The officer fired. The first bullet struck Damian in the forearm. He caught the third, fourth—the entire clip—tossed them to the ground like pennies. But the damage was done.