The Altonsterling: A Short Story

On this day, more than 200,000 black and white Americans gathered in Washington, D.C. and intended to dramatize the rights of black Americans to political and economic equality. This event focused on employment discrimination, civil rights abuses against African Americans, Latinos, and other minority groups, and support for the Civil Rights Act that the Kennedy Administration was attempting to pass through Congress. At the Washington Monument, they carried hundreds of signs that were made specifically for this event.

The first protest was formed on April 18th, by residents of Baltimore, in front of the Western district police station; after Gray’s subsequent coma. After Gray’s death became public knowledge, further protests were organized, amid the police department of Baltimore’s inability to adequately explain the events following the arrest and the injuries that led to Gray’s untimely death. On the day of Gray’s funeral service, violence engulfed the streets of Baltimore. Spontaneous, violent protests began to occur after Gray’s service was held. What started as peaceful protests in the days that led up to Gray’s funeral developed into full blown riots. Rioters took part in looting local businesses, setting cars and buildings ablaze, and throwing rocks at police

On the 15th and 16th of september the people of St. Louis and members of BLM “Black Lives Matter” protested against a court decision that stated that the former cop Jason Stockley was innocent. At the end of the night on the 15th of september some protesters decided that they would assault the cops by throwing brick and water bottles full of paint thinner and gasoline. Other groups of protesters decided to march to

Many protesters against and for the racial act lined up near the training academy to express their feelings. Many chanted out it is wrong to discriminate. Others saying people who are related to slaves shouldn’t be able to be such a high positions. Many took this dispute as an advantage to loot stores and houses like they did during the bread riots. The peaceful protest turned into a riot after two individuals started getting physical with each other.

Ernie has always been a little messed up, he has lived in Missouri for the 32 long years of his life. On the day that changed his life forever, November 22, 1996. Him and his family were driving to the mall and they got into an accident. His Mom and Dad both died and Ernie was very depressed. He got the notes, of what made the car accident happen, an inspection failure with the Engine. He did not know what to do with his life. He almost committed suicide, but then out of rage, the decided he was going to make the person who caused the car accident. He went searching for months, and finally came to the conclusion that the person that last assessed the car was Eddie Thompson.

Sandy Bland was stopped by a police office and sent to jail the reasons are yet unknown. Sandy spent only one day in jail because officers found her hung the next day. Authorities claimed that she committed suicide because they found her already hung however Sandy’s family refuses to believe the authorities story. People went out to the streets to create awareness for Sandy but not just her everyone who participated took this opportunity to bring awareness about Kindra Chapman who was also found dead in a cell just one day after Sandy was found. The crime doesn’t end there this movement of the black lives matter was also mourning the death of a transgender women who was killed because police officers beat her to death. Many people may not know of these crimes because there’s not enough awareness about them, this is why this organization is doing this to inform people that “the white supremacy continues to kill men, women and children of color” stated one of the co-founders of the Black Lives Matter.

In 1964, unalienable rights were not given to African Americans, though it was stated in our constitution. Malcolm X made a speech in Cleveland, Ohio, called The Ballot or the Bullet, about this major issue and what needs to be done to ratify this issue. At this point in history African Americans have tried numerous times for a non-violent protest-- nothing has worked for them. Through his use of emotional appeals, ethical appeals, and allusion, he persuades the audience that African Americans that they need to take a stand for their rights, if that means being violent.

The same young black men dismissed as troublemakers or "militants" closed ranks in front of West Florissant Avenue's beleagured businesses, seeking to stop the small minority of protesters who turned to looting. A tiny woman named Sharmale Humphrey, who had walked out on the Ferguson McDonalds during minimum wage protests last year, used her bullhorn to shout down a crowd of young men screaming, "Fuck the police."

The riots in Ferguson were not called for because they only led to the destruction of the city and the arrest of protesters. They accomplished nothing and took away from the reason of the riots, Michael Brown’s unjust death. Protesters that stood peacefully and chanted “Black Lives Matter” had a greater effect as they stood across the country (Healy).

Civil rights groups are not a new thing in the United States, but after the disputed case of Trayvon Martin who was killed by George Zimmerman, the movement has been growing tumultuously. After Martin’s death, hundreds of high school teens began protesting, demanding both Zimmerman and chief police be fired. With the help of social media, Umi Selah and other activists were able to organize a forty-mile march from Daytona Beach to the headquarters of Sanford Police Department (the department that dealt with Martin and Zimmerman’s case.) The march lasted four days and ended in a five-hour blockade of the Sanford Police Department’s door. This organized protest was just the beginning of what quickly became the Black Lives Matter movement (McClain 2016).

More than three years after the Ferguson unrest, a group of protesters once again marched down the streets of the St. Louis suburb. About several dozen people were chanting and carrying “Black Lives Matter” signs on Friday night, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. During the otherwise peaceful protest, some individuals burnt an American flag. A group of protestors are seen on video standing around the burning flag while repeatedly chanting "we can't take it no more." The video was posted to social media by Daniel Shular, a freelance photojournalist. The original protests were prompted by the death of Michael Brown, an 18-year-old black man, who was shot by Darren Wilson, a white police

On the Jersey Shore, trouble started roughly around 8 p.m. It started when Miss Dolores Shannon, a 26 years old, African American, was arrested on a disorderly conduct charge. According to the police, she was drunk and had been shouting and screaming. As they were taking her into custody, a man sooner identified as Walker Mays was said to have been interfering with the police and as a result he was also arrested. They were both taken to the Fourth Precinct station house at Com­munipaw Avenue. After word got out of the arrest, soon afterward, about 40 African Americans marched to the station house, chanting charges of police bru­tality. As it died down the crowd started to leave about a half an hour later. However, returning at about 10 P.

Black lives matter protests have been seen all over America many have turned violet causing death or injuries. The latest one is was in Utah where a 50-year-old man Patrick Harmon was shot dead by a Utah police officer after he was trying to run away from the officer. The district attorney called the shooting justified, officers were scared for their lives even though Patrick Hermon was running in the opposite direction. On Wednesday after the district attorney made his decision saying the shooting was justified a video of Patrick Harmon was released. In the video, you can clearly hear officer Clinton Fox yelling “ I’ll blanking shot you” right before Clinton Fox fires three bullets in Patrick Harmons back. Black lives matter organizer

Beginning with Alton Sterling, the video depicts the man immediately being hit and thrown to the ground, but there is a foreshadowing story to this. Apparently, a witness said the police were called because Mr. Sterling was selling CD’s outside, and the gas station owner saw it as loitering. Following this, the recorded confrontation happened where the police held him down and shot him. Not only was this an unarmed man, but this was an African-American man, and this police vs black conflict has been very apparent as of late. Now for Mr. Sterling, may athletes took to twitter, for example, NBA player Jamal Crawford (@JCrossover) tweeted: “Innocent lives man.. No restart button on life. People are taking lives like they're playing a video game.. HAS TO STOP! #AltonSterling” and Colin Kaepernick (@kaepernick7) followed up on Instagram, “This is what

There is usually a protest after an unarmed black person is killed by a police officer. By protesting, they try to seek attention to shooting of black people by disrupting commerce and preventing people from commuting to one place to another. After Alton Sterling and Philando Cartile were shot by a police officer, the Black Lives Matter marched on the streets and blocked highways in July 2016 in Minnesota. In December 2015, they even disrupt local business on a busy holiday shopping with peaceful protest. Despite getting warnings, the Black Lives Matter organization gathered in a Minnesota Mall. They compelled some of the stores to be closed for hours. They said there will not be any business until they get