The Pros And Cons Of Freedom In America

December 14, 2012. The day of the Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting where a man

This brave officer was shot and killed while investigating a suspicious person call in the early hours of October 13, 2017.

On Tuesday July 6, 2016 at approximately 12:15 a.m. 37 year old Alton Sterling was shot and killed by two police officers responding to a disturbance call. The altercation between Mr. Sterling and the two officers occurred at the Triple S Food Mart in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The two officers involved in the shooting have been identified as 28 year old Blane Salamoni, and 28 year old Howie Lake II. Both officers used physical force to bring Mr. Sterling to the ground, but it is unclear through the video which officer used their gun to shoot Mr. Sterling or if both officers shot him.

On Nov. 22, 1963, Kennedy was shot to death in Dallas, Texas, the fourth United States president to die by an assassin's bullet. The state funeral of President Kennedy was watched on television by millions around the world. He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

On November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m., President Kennedy was shot as his motorcade drove

Please, don’t shoot! The tension in Ferguson is so high right now that you could cut it with a knife. This is due to the latest shooting of eighteen year old Michael Brown. On August 9, 2014 Brown was the victim of a fatal shooting by Darren Wilson, a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. Brown and his friend Dorian Johnson were walking down the middle of the street, when Wilson drove up and told them to move to the sidewalk. An altercation occurred between Brown and Wilson struggling through the window of the police car until Wilson’s gun was fired. Brown and Johnson then fled in different directions with Wilson chasing Brown. Wilson then fired shots several more times. A total of twelve shots was fired. Brown was hit by six or seven bullets. The last shot that hit him was the most fatal. Witnesses of the scene had different stories about whether Brown had his hand raised above him or not before he was shot. This incident sparked unrest in Ferguson.

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

On April 25th of 1980 Bobby James Moore who was 20 at the time, along with two other men (Willie Albert Koonce and Evertte Anthony Pradia) were in the process of robbing a convenient store located in Houston, Texas, when James McCarble (store clerk) was fatally shot. When Scott realized what was occurring she started to scream, this is when Bobby James Moore than shot 73-year old employee James McCarble in the head killing her. Moore fled the scene, and was found 10 days later, arrested and charged with capital murder- the jury sentenced him to death.

November 22, 1963, was one of the darkest days in the history of the United States of America. It was a day of complete turmoil. People all over the country dropped everything that they were doing. Children were permitted to go home from school and people huddled around their televisions in shock as they watched the day's events. On this day, John F. Kennedy was brutally assassinated in Dallas, Texas.

Michael Brown was shot dead in the street in Ferguson, Missouri. Michael Brown was 18-years old and we were told that he was simply walking down the street. He was shot by Officer Darren Wilson. Wilson claimed that Brown got into a physical altercation with him. This resulted in Brown trying to grab his gun so Wilson shot him six times four in the arm and two in the head. Before his name could be released to the

killed by Darren Wilson, a white police officer. When Wilson was found not guilty by a jury

Eric Garner died Thursday July 17th, 2014 at the hands of Staten Island police officers Justin Damico and Daniel Pantaleo. The entire thing started when two officers approached Garner who was outside of a convenience store and they knew him because he would sell cigarettes by the Ferry. Moments before there was commotion because of a fight that Garner tried to break up and shortly after the two officers arrived to try and arrest him because they "saw" him selling loose cigarettes to people on the street. He immediately began shouting for them to back away and stop harassing him

officer named Darren Wilson.Michael was also shot 7 times which was unnecessary because he was unarmed and willing to cooperate.Michael was killed for being suspected of matching a suspect that stole in a convenience store.

America is the universal symbol of freedom. But is it really free? Does the history of the United States stay true to the ideas of our forefathers? Or has the definition been altered to fit American policies? Has freedom defined America? Or has America defined freedom? I believe America was at first defined by freedom, then after time, America defined freedom, altering the definition to fit the niche it fits in, but still keeping key components so it still seems to be staying true to the ideas of America’s founding fathers.

The power or right to act, speak or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint. A word created by man to escape the bonds of tyranny to express the idea of what it means to persist one's own ambitions. Freedom. Freedom is not the absence of confinement but the will to achieve freedom when imprisoned. After carefully concluding the reading done over this semester one is able to clearly understand the confinement these early Americans felt and their decision to achieve a form of freedom. Freedom has always existed but it is the history of this nation that will define what actions freedom takes.