The Cronulla Riots

Though sparked by the Rodney King verdict, there were many other causes of the riots that erupted on the streets of Los Angeles on April 29, 1992. The Los Angeles riots in 1992 were devastating. The obvious issue portrayed through the media was black versus white. If you did not live in Los Angeles or California chances are you did not hear full coverage of the story, you heard a simple cut and dry portrayal of the events in South Central. If you heard one thing about the riots, it was that there was a man named Rodney King and he was a black male beaten with excessive force by four white Los Angeles police officers on Los Angeles concrete. The media portrayed the riots as black rage on the streets due to the

Now, an iconic, non-judgmental documentary Cronulla Riots voices the untold story. We are invited to believe their voices as they believe the riots as “un-Australian”, just like John Howard.

“…About eight sailors got me outside of the theater and they started beating me up. It happened so fast, I passed out. I woke up with a cracked rib, a broken nose, black and blue all over. I was really beat.”(Alvarez, 2006, p.155) During the 1940s, the public had generated stereotypes of the Pachucos and zoot suits, which were eventually transferred to all Mexican Americans. Many young men like Vicente Morales were attacked, humiliated, and stripped from their fashionable clothes by servicemen. However, to what extent did the fashionable expression of the zooters and the culture of the Pachucos influence the Zoot Suit Riots?

The Elaine Massacre was one of the most destructive racial dispute that had taken place in Arkansas history and perhaps, the bloodiest racial rivalry in the history of the United States. While its inmost origin lies in the United States dedication to white superiority, the events in Elaine were emanated from strained race affiliates and expanding sympathy regarding the labor unions. A firing incident that took place at a meeting of the Progressive Farmers and the Household Union inflated into throng brutality on the part of the white people in Elaine and the nearby areas. Despite, the perfect number is unidentified, a huge number of African Americans were killed by the white’s territory that was around hundreds; and five white people lost their lives.

One intriguing read turned out to be Howard De Witt’s The Watsonville Anti-Filipino Riot of 1930 for its social and racial significance. For example, many whites within Watsonville viewed Filipinos as being overly-sexual, and this caused fear among many white residents (Witt, 293). This type of mentality stereotyped many Filipinos as being possible sexual threats or rapists. I feel that many whites during this time period hated the fact that Filipinos and white people intermingled. What also bothered me was how an organization named the American Legion became established by a small community of residents within the San Joaquin Valley to prevent Filipinos from engaging in sexual intercourse with whites (Witt, 293). The anti-Filipino residents

The creation and inception of Twilight follows very shortly after the Rodney King verdict in 1992. An important event leading up the riots in 1992 is when “On March 3, 1991, an African-American motorist, Rodney King, was pursued for speeding” (Jacobs 1239). A total of twenty-one police officers pursued him. Once they tracked him down, “King was severely beaten down by three white LAPD police officers as a sergeant and and the remaining 17 officers looked on” (Jacobs 1329). As King was beaten, a man named George Holliday proceeds to videotape and record the incident; such a recording becomes available to the public striking outrage in the community. This had been one of the few times where police brutality was recorded and broadcasted for public

4 police men all but one charge connected to a severe beating because the man was in a high speed pursuit ,but then he stopped and got caught.So now the cops all but one got a charge for beating the african american motorist in march 1991.A result of 50 people were killed,more than 2,300 people were injured and about thousands were arrested on that night in the riot.About 1,100 buildings ended up being wrecked.The cost for the buildings was about 1 billion dollars for the damage that people had done to the buildings.It was the most devastating riots in american history.And still is to this day.There was a lot of damage in the riot.White police force practiced racial profiling and engaged in racist

During the trek to Ottawa, Prime Minister Bennett and his government escalated the peaceful assembly to a violent riot. According to first hand accounts of the Regina riot, “Guns were firing. Guess who had the guns? [Bennett] wanted to discredit the trek and he did. Oh, yes, he succeeded. We were, in the eyes of a lot of people, just a bunch of Reds” (Broadfoot 2). This suggests that the Federal government made the unfounded assumption that the assembly was a Communist uprising and felt the need to eliminate the threat at any cost. In addition, the Federal Government allegedly set up the riot by having the railways “complain that the men were trespassing” (Waiser 4) to justify government intervention. With the amount of influence and reach

The attack can be seen as catastrophic, as the main effect was on our sense of national vulnerability. In addition to the consequences, the attack was a turning point in Australia’s war effort and had caused a deep reflection on the cost of nationhood.

The Los Angeles Riots goes down in history as one of the most famous and destructive riots in US history. The L.A. Riots started as an outcry to the acquittal of the four police officers who senselessly beat Rodney King which was caught on camera. To understand the core issues of the L.A. Riots, we have to go back to what started it all, the injustice of Rodney King.

Most people can feel bad for the people of Baltimore with the furious nature from April 18, 2015 - May 3, 2015. It’s really easy to feel a lot of compassion for the people who’ve suffered from police brutality, poverty, and injustice; even if you’ve never experienced either. Burning and looting a CVS store would be a lot harder to understand and would hardly seem to have anything to do with protesting the actions of the Baltimore Police Department. President Obama decried the Baltimore riots as “senseless act of violence and destruction.” Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake also seemed disheartened. “We worked so hard to get a company like CVS to invest in this neighborhood,” she said, “this is the only place that so many people have to pick up their prescriptions.” Why would anyone burn down the only CVS in their neighborhood?

The number of stories in the Australian print media about asylum seekers has escalated dramatically over the past 15 years, even though the total number of people accepted into Australia under our humanitarian scheme has not significantly increased (Lusher 2007). These stories have seen the dominant framing of asylum seekers as terrorists and criminals, thereby criminalising and dehumanising them and reinforcing "fear of [their] racial, cultural and religious differences” (Aslan 2009, p. 111) among Australians. Such framing tactics were clearly evident in the reporting of the ‘children overboard’ incident of 2001, with media reports, which were later proven to be false (Cottle 2009), framing asylum seekers as cruel, calculating people who were prepared to watch their own children drown in order to ‘invade’ Australia. In framing asylum seekers in such a way, the Australian media capitalised on the pre-existing general unease about race ethnicity in Australia (Jacobs 2011) and public

He discusses that the gun laws in Australia prohibit any common person to own a rifle or shotgun, only farmers are allowed to own them because they need them for their farms maintenance, such as for killing injured livestock. The report from both ABC and FOX vary in their way of handing out the events information; ABC appeals to the audience's emotion and FOX tries to emphasize the importance of gun reform laws that inhibit these types of massacres and shootings. FOX & CNN In spite of both news organizations CNN and FOX focusing on the logos rather than pathos, the two reports differed in their motivations; CNN was giving the facts just to make news and inform viewers whilst FOX wanted to emphasize what their point of view is about shootings. Both reports do cover the main details of the event and they both refer to the Port Arthur Massacre of 1996, however they do so with different intentions. CNN reporter Euan McKirdy is simply relating information to the audience without wanting to persuade one way or another or appeal to emotions. He includes the 1996 massacre to provide background information on the last worst shooting occured in Australia before this Friday's, to emphasize the importance of the event. On the other hand, FOX reporter Dom Calicchio mentions the 1996 massacre in order to be able to discuss the effectiveness of Australia's gun laws. He is attempting to persuade the audience into the broadcasters believes that gun laws are needed in order to prevent these shootings as they have in Australia. Particularly he mentions the support given by former president Barack Obama in order to link the gun laws to this nation. CNN plainly presents

The streets in Baltimore looked like a warzone after a night of riots and fire. The security was increased after looting and fires engulfed the city. Many buildings and cars across the city were engulfed in flames. Around a dozen businesses were looted or damaged. There was a minimum of 15 officers wounded, and six of them were seriously injured.

The 1960s was a very turbulent time in American history. Cities across the country saw hundreds of incidents of racial violence. Various federal and state commissions were assembled to investigate the causes of these riots. Each individual riot had its own specific immediate precipitating incidents--"among them the Chicago riots of 1965 which erupted after a Negro woman was accidentally killed by a fire engine and the Daytona riots of 1966, which broke out after a Negro man was deliberately gunned down from a passing car" (Fogelson 217). Although race riots did occur, in part, because of the incidents, these were not the true causes. These events were only the catalyses that pushed people over the edge and caused them to go