Which Never Bend But Break Short Story

I found this passage interesting because it left me thinking and analyzing it for some time. I didn’t quite understand it at first, especially the screaming part. Initially I thought it was the prisoner's form of suicide, but after a while I realized that it was only after he stared at his reflection for a couple seconds, that he let out the blood curdling scream. This lead me to conclude, that the man yelled out of shock and fear because he no longer recognized himself. When we

told the police to relax at his home, but during the time he heard a heartbeat. His

Paula Austin, addresses police brutality and their relationship with guns. She opens up her discussion by providing us with images of newspaper articles that demonstrate the image of police brutality. She then goes further in depth and illustrates the increase in gun kills demonstrated by the police force. She provides us with statistical data on the increase in deaths caused by police through guns. Moreover, she then draws the connection between police and race. She addresses to us on how African Americans are way more targeted against by police than any other race. She provides us with the most recent example of “ Stephon Clark” an unarmed black man who was killed by police on the notion that he was “armed”. She then examines this event and illustrates the further connection towards guns and

Being placed into prison negatively and sometimes positively changes lives. Jimmy Santiago Baca writes in his memoir A Place to Stand his experiences involving the negative and positive attributes. Within prison his whole life changes as he puts in the effort to transform his life through writing. In his book he writes, “I became a different man, not because prison was good for me, but in spite of its destructive forces. In prison I learned to believe in myself and to dream for a better life” (Baca 4). His poems, “I am Offering This Poem”, “Who Understands Me but Me”, and “Immigrants in Our Own Land” convey multiple messages of character transformation that the author depicts within his prison memoir A Place to Stand.

Oscar Grant was reported to be rowdy on the train and was shot at point-blank range. The policeman later revealed he was trying to grab his Taser not his handgun. While reading this review, the author was using present day situations such as the Zimmerman case to reflect on how two different cases can be the same but in different standpoints. Trayvon’s incident was not recorded, but Zimmerman was reported to be running behind an unarmed suspected to have a gun. The author wanted to say that cases are similar considering that both officers were not prosecuted. A better example he could have used was the Walter Scott shooting. Both men were believed to be causing a disturbance, the policeman was trying to grab their Tasers, and someone was

In light of recent events, Minneapolis finds itself within heat of national topic, police brutality. Jana Kooren of ACLU of Minnesota writes in The Hard Truth of the Minneapolis Black Lives Matter Protests: Communities of Color Have No Trust in Their Police Force. The authors main point of the article was to articulate the disaster that affects African Americans disproportionately. Jamar Clark is one in a thousand this year who have died in the hands of police who have overexerted their power. He sadly became another member of this deadly year, when two police officers shot him when he allegedly interfered with emergency responders helping an assault victim. She continues to emphasis how this problem is not local at it’s root, but national.

“It was unexpected day at home for Tino. After coming home from school, we got him a toy gun as a gift. It was his birthday. He was really happy about it and running outside to brag it with his friends. He was playing it in our front yard, while we were preparing for the party. We heard the bang sound and the sound of the police car loudly in front of our house.......” Many people believe that police brutality is out of control in America. The reasons for it is police are killing many innocent people, they make people doesn’t feel safe and it is unstoppable if we are not doing something.

Police brutality and gun violence that is associated with the police is continuing to be a topic that is constantly in the headlines. Gun violence is a huge problem in our society, but what is an even bigger problem is that most of the gun violence occurring these days is from our local police officers. George Wayne Smith wrote the article, “Blood Cries Out from the Ground: Reflections on Ferguson” with the hope of informing people of this type of violence. The article focuses on the wrongful death of Michael Brown, who was shot in Ferguson, Missouri on August 9, 2014. This article was a good way to reach people and tell them about the emotional effect that this shooting had on the country. He was able to use his first-hand experience, knowledge about Ferguson, and its history, to communicate with his audience about why we need to be aware of what is going on in the world. Smith used the rhetorical strategies; ethos, pathos, and logos to effectively showcase just what a big problem gun violence is becoming in the world, and informed us on how we can play a part in getting justice for all of its victims.

He looked over to his right and saw a group of prisoners screaming at him, begging him to run towards them to complete the plan. Running to them meant freedom, but before he could move a muscle, he heard someone in the distance screaming his name. Closing his eyes and covering his ears would’ve been a good fantasy, but confronting

From a distance, he seemed normal but then as he approached I noticed that he was not wearing any clothes. I dropped the gas pump and got in my car and locked all the doors. He didn’t seem like he wanted to hurt anyone but he was crazy I could tell. He walked by spitting on the ground, I had no clue on his intent nor did I want to find out.” The man was claimed to be declared mentally unstable. Another witness, Jerold Topping said his encounter with the thief was brief but bold. Jerold says he shouted at the man saying “Hey, what are you doing? F**k off away from my lorry.” Jerold claims the thief was hiding in a bush just watching, but Jerold did not know what he was watching. Jerold said that he saw police lights flashing down the hill, so he made the connection that this naked man in the bush was running from the law. Jerold also made a comment saying “The man seemed as if he was scared and lost, almost like a lost baby. Helpless and scared.” After Jerold shewed off the thief he never saw him ever again. The last sighting was thought of being on the campus of Corpus Christi, Samuel Anderson repeats his events with the

Notice the bible says “When” (rather than “it so happened that”) seems to imply that his sanity was inevitable. In other words he was bound to come to his senses, living in such awful situation/circumstance

He kept flitting back to the hours before he’d been captured: he had promised he would look into the case of the Second Salemer boy and he had been so preoccupied with that he hadn’t considered anything else. Stupid. He replayed different scenarios over and over in his mind, trying to poke holes in the events to see where he could pop through and rearrange the pieces a little differently. Maybe if he had studied divination more carefully at school, he might have foreseen the whole damned

The events of the now infamous video have evolved to become a symbol of police brutality; a rallying cry for those disaffected with our justice system. Garner’s last words: “I can’t breathe”, have been adopted as the mantra of recent demonstrations. More importantly, unlike the shooting death of Michael Brown, whose case was enshrouded in a fog of conflicting witnesses and forensic reports, Garner’s death serves as an irrefutable, visceral testament to the violent excesses of law enforcement. Although the Grand Jury investigating Pantaleo’s conduct

There is enough evidence to show that police officers are using an excess of force, and in some occasions, lethal force in their daily routine. It is now normal for people to get scared when they are in the presence of a police officer. It is not a coincidence because these police officer have created their own reputation. Recent incidents involving police officers shooting innocent people are raising doubts about how police officers are trained, and the credibility in the Unites States Justice System. Ginger Otis in Police Still ‘Have a License To Kill’, a Year After Eric Garner Was Choked to Death, Says His Mother, shows many controversial cases such as Eric Garner’s case where he was choked to death by a police officer in New York city. Also, Michael Brown an unarmed black teen that was shot to death in Ferguson, MO, or Tamir Rice a 12 year old boy that was playing with a toy gun in Cleveland, and several others. Also, it includes the decisions of the Grand jury on some of the cases where only two officers were charged. The discomfort of the community became present and they started movements like “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” in the Brown’s case and “I Can’t Breath” in the Garner’s case. Unfortunately, this issue has not stopped, and people still get hurt by police officers. Decisions of the Grand jury are putting in danger the credibility of the United States System Justice. Garner’s mother stated, “It doesn’t matter if you wear blue jeans, a blue suit or a blue uniform, if

Finally, finally, the sirens stop. It’s so sudden, flooding the air with a moment of silence. My ears start to pick up the city noise again, faint and comforting in its normality. I hear footsteps behind my, and I turn to meet them. Two police officers are approaching me carefully, their guns drawn. What’s happening? Why do they look like they’re coming for me? I didn’t do anything. Questions flicker through my mind, none of them staying long enough for me to answer them.