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    bump into someone. Now if I come across that situation, I will fight them off. Yes, I may be a girl and most girls aren’t stronger than boys. But, I have fought with my cousin that is a male and 14. He is also way taller than me, but he had me in a chokehold and I fought my way out of the choke hold. After fighting my way out, I put him on the ground. If someone in the games tries to get the same bag as me in the Cornucopia, then I can fight them off and

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    Police Brutality? Essay

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    Police Brutality? In the criminal justice field one of the most debated issues centers on the use of certain techniques when trying to subdue combative suspects. Since incidents like the Rodney King beating, people have started paying more attention to how the police handle suspects. Questions concerning the deaths of people after a tazor was used or the choke hold had been applied have been raised recently. The use of tazor guns, which were first introduced in the 1970's and put out a jolt

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    Why I don't Cry

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    Hi I’m Cade right now I’m sitting at a table afraid to stand up for myself, let me rewind. I’m 11 years old and I’m I live with my mom and two sisters. We have three dogs, two cats and one horse. As you can tell we love animals! My dad and mom split up when I was about 9-10 years old when this happened. So my dad moved to ludlow Vermont. He met a girl named Lily and they started dating. We hung out with her we would alternate weekends so every other weekend was his. He stayed there and after awhile

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    A Short Story : A Story?

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    “NOOO! DON’T DO IT!” Annistynn shrieked, “Don’t take us ple-.” Her shrieking was ended with a cloth over her mouth and a trunk door slamming shut. Five hours earlier, Annistynn and her sister, McKenna were holiday shopping together for their parents and grandparents. Annistynn is two years older than McKenna and has a mom-like personality, so it was always her job to make sure McKenna was safe and nothing happened to her even though she was fifteen years old. Annistynn was always paranoid about

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    Garner Tragedy in New York” video clearly expresses that there are mixed opinions on the bills regarding chokeholds to be applied by law enforcement (huffingtonpost.com). Councilman Rory Lancman introduced a bill that makes it illegal to use a chokehold that “limits or cuts off either the flow of air by compressing the windpipe, or the flow of blood” and the legislation would make such a chokehold a misdemeanor crime punishable

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    suspicion of selling unlicensed cigarettes. Only, to have that uncorroborated by witness on the scene. Third, the officers never told Garner he was being detained or under arrest; the officers didn’t even say he was under arrest when placing him in chokehold. Fourth, Garner pleads for his life to officers that he could not breathe and officers ignored him and increased the level of force to detain him. The incident, then, was a clear instance of the broader problem of police brutality and how police

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    Eric Garner knew he did not do anything wrong. Eric and the other officers continues their dispute until one of the officers named Daniel Pantaleo took action. Daniel Pantaleo had put Eric in a choke hold and forced him onto the ground. “It also shows a cluster of officers, including Pantaleo, kneeling on Garner’s back and pressing his face, mouth and nose to the pavement as he lay face down, hands cuffed behind him, pleading— at least 11 times—“I can’t breathe.” (In these times 1) Eric continued

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    In today society, police brutality is seen in many news media. You cannot go on social media or television without seeing a police officer shooting an unarmed African American male for very little reason. Recently twenty-three years old Stephon Clark was shot by Sacramento office officers in the back for allegedly resisting arrest for breaking windows. When comes to police brutality, African Americans is the fore front of this topic. This topic called police brutality goes back to the slave patrol

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    Sergeant in Eric Garner Case to Face Departmental Charges A New York City police sergeant has been charged internally and stripped of her gun and badge over the death of Eric Garner on July 2014. The NYPD sergeant was in charge when Garner was put in a chokehold. She is the first officer to face formal disciplinary action in connection with his death. According to CBS, the move to penalize Sergeant Kizzy Adonis attracted the wrath of the Sergeants Benevolent Association on Friday. Sgt. Kizzy Adonis was among

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    getting accustomed to utilizing against American citizens. On July 17, 2014, Eric Garner died in Staten Island, New York after ununiformed police officer Daniel Pantaleo placed Garner into a chokehold after Pantaleo had attempted to arrest Garner for selling untaxed cigarettes. After being put into a chokehold for fifteen seconds, Garner became unconscious and suffered a cardiac arrest while being transported to the hospital (Goldstein and Schweber). According to the National Police Misconduct Reporting

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