The Manhunt For Christopher Cortez

The shooting occurred at the Fruitvale train station on January 1st, 2009. At the station, a fight broke out in one of the trains and when the train stopped the fight started again outside of the train at one of the stops. While they were fighting on the train the BART officers were called. The officers came and arrested everyone that was in the fight. A guy named Oscar Grant was in the fight and was also arrested (Meyer). While Grant was being arrested by Officer Mehserle, he resisted the officer’s attempts. Since Grant was resisting he was pushed onto the ground on his stomach to be handcuffed. Johannes Mehserle was having trouble handcuffing Grant so the other BART officers helped him. When Grant was on the ground Mehserle was going to tase him since he would not stop resisting. When Mehserle thought he pulled out his TASER, he instead pulled out his gun. Mehserle accidentally shot Grant with his gun since he thought he pulled out his TASER (Bulwa).

This case provides the story of the fatal shooting of Laquan McDonald (17 years) in Chicago by Police Officer Jason Van Dyke on or about October 21, 2014. McDonald died after having been shot 16 times late on that evening by Van Dyke as he and others responded to a report of a man armed with a knife breaking into vehicles in a truck yard (CQ Research, 2016). McDonald, who had a record of juvenile arrests, allegedly refused the officers’ demands to drop his knife (CQ Research, 2016). After 400 days of the incident, the video from a police vehicle showed that McDonald, who was holding a knife was walking parallel, but away from the officers when he was shot 16 times by Van Dyke (Police Charges, 2015). The public has a right to know as much as possible about the rules governing the police and about investigations into allegations of police misconduct. Transparency holds police accountable and accountability builds trust in Police Department.

The officers were investigating a burglary when they happened upon the multi-millionaire and Notre Dame graduate. An investigation by the family's attorney revealed that DuBose cooperated with the officers' investigation until they began to "harass and intimidate" him (Amnesty International 1999a). The officers claimed that DuBose charged at them with a pair of nunchakus sticks, a martial arts weapon that he allegedly wrestled away from one of them. Several onlookers said DuBose was shot in the back (Perry A3). To add insult to injury after shooting DuBose the officers stood over his body for more than ten minutes before calling an ambulance (Amnesty International 1999c). An autopsy report revealed that DuBose was shot twelve times, six in the back (Perry A3). When asked to explain how a young man of DuBose's stature could end up being killed in this manner San Diego's police chief called it an isolated incident--an aberration (Jeffries, 2001)

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

There were many conflicts that were more significant in terms of gains, losses, and casualties than that of Villa’s raid of Columbus, New Mexico. Upon hearing that the nearby town of Columbus, New Mexico was lightly garrisoned, Mexican revolutionary Francisco “Pancho” Villa ordered what remained of his army to attack the small farming town. His well-earned reputation had been seriously damaged by this point considering recent losses that devastated his army, having both the Mexican and American governments after him, and by crossing into the United States he unknowingly made it certain that an end to his leadership within Mexico was inevitable.

Two police officers shot Alva Braziel, and it was allegedly 10 times. These officers were driving down Cullen Boulevard in Houston when they saw the man waving a revolver in the air while standing in the street. Officers stopped and explained to Alva that he needed to drop the gun, but he didn't do it. Houston police shared that a civilian also told him to put down the gun, but Braziel wouldn't drop it. There was no way to convince him to drop it, which then turned into the police handling the situation.

On Sunday September 18th. 2016. at approximately 8:30 PM an off-duty officer fatally shot a would be robber. The incident took place on the corner of Liberty Avenue and Merrick Boulevard. The off duty office was in route to his job for Allied Security dressed in his uniform when he was approached by the attempted robber. The attempted robber demanded that the officer hand over his gun and cash at gunpoint. After which the officer removed his weapon and shot the attempted robber. The injured man was taken to Queens General Hospital where he was pronounced dead shortly after arrival.

In February of 2013, Christopher Dorner, an ex-Los Angeles police officer, committed a series of shootings, whose victims were members of law enforcement and their friends and family. Dorner felt that he had been unfairly fired by the LAPD after falsely reporting that his partner had kicked a mentally ill man while he was being handcuffed and vowed to “bring unconventional and asymmetrical warfare to those in LAPD uniform whether on or off duty” in his manifesto he wrote, which detailed who he planned to kill and why. In the wake of these horrific attacks on police officers and their families, many articles came out, discussing Dorner’s background and interviewing people he knew. Through the depictions of Dorner displayed in the news articles and the content of his manifesto, the reader comes to understand different aspects of Dorner’s personality and his obsession with his reputation.

In a New York Times article entitled, “Fatal Police Shootings: Accounts Since Ferguson” written by Richard Pérez-Peña on April 8, 2015, there were

On September 27, 2016 an African American man was shot and killed by El Cajon police. A woman whose is sister of the man who was shot called the police indicating her brother was “not acting himself”. The man whose name Is Alfred Olango was walking into traffic in the 800 block Broadway before police officers found him behind a restaurant around 2:11pm. Olango ignored the instructions from the police officers multiple times, then [quote] “concealed his hand in his pant pocket,” Davis said [end of quote]. Olango would pace back and forth then [quote] “rapidly drew an object from his front pants pockets, placed both hands together on it and extended it rapidly toward one officer, taking what appeared to be a shooting stance,” the chief said [end

A example of this abominable and deplorable deed would be the very devastating case including Philando Castille. This man was shot multiple times by an officer named Yanez in St.Paul Minnesota, and that lead to his passing. What occurred was that Mr.Castille was pulled over by two officers, one officer came out the vehicle and told him that his back tail light was busted. Yanez then asked for his license and as Philando reached for is from his back pocket he informed the officer that he had a armed weapon, with a permit in the car. As Philando reached for his license which was located in his wallet that was in his back pocket, Yanez then yelled out ¨Don't reach out for it then!¨and shot Philando multiple times. After the shots were fired Philando´s girlfriend screamed ¨You killed my boyfriend!¨ and Philando responded to Yanez ¨I didn't¨, meanwhile bleeding out from

Police shootings

FACTS: On October 3, 1974, two officers were dispatched to a burglary call. Upon arrival, one officer witnessed a person, Edward Garner, running from the scene. One officer concluded Garner was unarmed and ordered him to stop. Instead of stopping, Garner began climbing a fence. The officer fired shots at Garner, striking him in the back of the head. Garner was pronounced deceased at the hospital. The District Court held that the officer’s actions were in fact constitutional; however, the Court of Appeals reversed.

The DOJ report mentioned that there appeared to be soot around the wound on the right hand which is “evidence of close range discharge of a firearm” (p. 9). The report listed eight gunshot wounds on Brown’s body. The DOJ concluded that six of the eight bullets that impacted Brown’s body entered through the front. The two bullets that were determined not to have entered through the front were the ones that struck the right arm and right forearm. The bullet to the right arm was concluded to have an “indeterminate trajectory” and the bullet to the right forearm entered through the back (p. 9). All but one of the gunshot wounds were found to be inflicted from a distance. The bullet that entered through the back of the forearm can be explained by Brown swinging his arm in the act of running towards Officer Wilson. This evidence supports Wilson’s statement that he fired at Brown not at close range, but while he was charging at him from a distance. It further shows that it was impossible that Michael Brown was shot in the back as some had previously

Any serious crime committed in harm of someone should be treated identically to one against another person, regardless of his or her race, gender, or age. For 19 year old Zachary Hammond, that was not the case. In this occurrence, Hammond was unarmed fatally shot two times and killed by an undercover police officer trying to bust Hammond’s date for possession of marijuana for self defense purposes. The officer’s plea for defense was that Hammond was evidently approaching him with his car in a dangerous manner, yet the autopsy results beg to differ. The autopsy revealed that Hammond was in fact shot from behind with the bullets going from his back all the way through to his heart. However, the two gunshots were not even mentioned in the official