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same intention as that person then there’s a present experience of definite locality. Throughout Smith’s play she gives accurate accounts of real people who represent every area within the communities. Smith uses the police commissioner Stanly R. Sheinbaum to show that the polices are just as concerned as the rest and Stanly is quoted, “why do I have to be on the side? There is a problem here” (Smith 28). Smith also uses the voices of the helpless people with in this community to show the different

Not seeing whole incident has always been an issue in the United States taking it back to 1991 the Rodney King case. King was in a high speed chase with the police he was pulled out of his car and was brutally beat by four police officers. This altercation was caught on film by a bystander and was taken to trial (Rodney King Biography). Even though they had provided undeniable evidence of the officers using excessive force and a deadly weapon the officers were acquitted. This triggered a deadly riot

to purchase the marijuana showed up and the deal ended with the male being fatally shot (Wing 2015). What was not revealed until later was the intended purchaser was an undercover police officer (Wing 2015). In a different situation, on August 8, 2015 a young male crashed his vehicle into a car dealership and police officers responded to a potential burglary in progress to discover the male at the car dealership (Murdock 2015). Video footage released from the car dealership shows the male attempting

ended in a rampage. In the article “U.S. Open of Surfing Turns into Riot,” the reporter, Mark Lukach, reported that the catalyst of the riot was a fight. However, with the majority being white young adults, the police force applied a soft approach protocol. Despite the fact that the police immediately responded to the riot throwing tear gas to disperse the crowd, the riot resulted with thousands of dollars of property damage and with only eight people arrested. How is it possible that only eight

In the Article, "Legal System Could Stop Police Brutality" by Alan Dershowitz he talked about if Rodney King’s arrest wasn't to record the outcome would have been different. Rodney G King was a 25-year-old African American male that was brutality beaten by the LAPD. On March 3rd, 1991 Mr. King was caught after his high-speed chase. The Police then proceed to drag him out of the vehicle, made racial slurs and also brutality beat Mr. King. The Events were recorded by a bystander by the name of George

Assignment On New Years day 2009, a 23 year-old black male named Oscar Grant was returning home from a party on a BART train heading to Fruitvale station in Oakland, California. BART police officers heard that there was a brawl involving approximately 12 people on an incoming train from the West Oakland station. The police went to the train where they removed and arrested several of the men aboard. Officer Johannes Mehserle and another officer restrained Grant, handcuffed him, and turned him onto his

. The Los Angeles Civil Unrest in 1992 is the most destructive event happened in the United States. Many Korean immigrant merchants in the South Central suffered a lot during the Unrest. According to Professor Park’s PowerPoint, there were “at least 2,300 Korean-owned businesses suffered a partial or total loss of their properties with damage estimated to exceed $350 million, or nearly 50 percent of the total damage for the city of Los Angeles” (Park). When the Unrest first started, the Korean

The Los Angeles riots in 1992 did not stem from the beating of Rodney King but stemmed from a much larger problem. Individuals were frustrated with being placed in a social hierarchy based on the color of their skin. The beating of Rodney King was the "cherry on top" for the bottled up frustration people felt. In the United States, there is a social hierarchy, and the judicial system works differently depending on where the individual is placed within the hierarchy. The riots were a non-constructive

Since LA the United States has had numerous race related riots. These riots include Ferguson, Baltimore, and the St. Louis protests. The riots were all police related and ended in the death of an African American. On August 9th, 2014, in Ferguson, Missouri, Michael Brown was shot and killed by Darren Wilson, a white police officer. When Wilson was found not guilty by a jury protests broke out. Many residents of Ferguson wanted Wilson to be charged with murder, which he was not. Ferguson

officers have been involved in multiple fatal shootings and nothing has been done about it. The thesis of this paper is that many police forces have been abusing their power for far too long and there has been no consequences for their misconduct. Three ways this supports the thesis are, background information on past cases of