Errors in the Investigation of JonBenet Ramsey’s Death In the early morning hours of December 26, 1996 JonBenet Patricia Ramsey was murdered at her family’s home in Boulder, Colorado. At approximately 5:52am, her mother, Patsy, calls police declaring that her daughter had been kidnapped and that she had found a ransom note on the back staircase in the kitchen of the home. Police officers arrived at the home at 6:00am and conduct a search of the premises. JonBenet is not found at this time. The ransom note found by Patsy Ramsey is read and indicates that JonBenet’s father, John, and mother Patsy must pay $118,000 by 10 am the next morning to ensure JonBenet’s safe return.
Case Citation: Kentucky. v.King, 563 U.S. (2011) Parties: Kentucky, Petitioner Hollis King, Respondent Facts: In Lexington, Kentucky, police officers entered an apartment building. They were in search of a suspect who had sold cocaine to an undercover informant. After a chase, police lost the suspect. They came to an apartment building where they smelled marijuana coming from one of the doors.
The time before the Jim Crow laws had been passed. Jim Crow Laws were laws that were established between 1874 and 1954 to separate the white and black races in the American South. In theory, it was to create "separate but equal" treatment, but in reality and in practice, Jim Crow Laws condemned and restricted black citizens to inferior treatment and facilities. The fourteenth and fifteenth amendments were ratified six to seven years before the Jim Crow laws were passed which means that African Americans were citizens and had the right to vote. However the Jim Crow laws were created after the ratification of these amendment for the sole purpose to restrict African Americans from the rights they had been granted.
The police informed the individuals inside what they observed. The police then observed a shotgun in the pillows on the couch and found three more underneath the same couch. The police conducted a pat-down search of everyone in the house. The police found a large amount of suspected marijuana, suspected cocaine and $400 on Mr. Blake. Subsequently, Mr. Jonathan Blake was arrested for possession of a controlled substance, distribution of a controlled substance, and possession of an unregistered firearm.
A warrant was issued for his arrest after police wanted to question him in relation to an assault in the Sydney suburb of Zetland. At about 7pm (AEDT) on December 29, a 50-year-old Zetland man was allegedly assaulted and his Mercedes four-wheel-drive was stolen from his home. The alleged thief was someone whom the man had met online, police said. The NSW Supreme Court was told in 2005 that Jennings had stabbed Giuseppe Vitale in the neck with a kitchen knife after being tied up during a sexual liaison with the man, whom he had met through the internet. He was found not guilty of murdering Giuseppe Vitale on grounds of mental illness in 2005 by the NSW Supreme Court.
The State Police in Oklahoma humiliated an Army General Gerald for two hours and his son because they were African American. They were told to get out of their car and they were handcuffed without the police having a reason to. The police also asked if they can search Gerald’s car and Gerald said no. The police didn’t respect what Gerald had said and they searched his car anyway. The police brought drug-sniffing dogs since they were African American they expected them to have drugs in the car.
Gates found the front door to his home jammed shut and with the help of his driver to force it open. A local witness reported their activity to the police as a potential burglary in progress. That Crowley had explained. Gates came to the door and said “why because I’m black man in America?” Gates was arrested for disorderly conduct, by Police St. James Crowley. On July 21, 2009, charges against Gates were dropped.
On July 22, 1991, Tracy Edwards his last victim managed to escape from him while being handcuffed. The police saw this event and decided to investigate. They went into the apartment of the men who had handcuffed him and searched the room where they found several photos of corpses, human remains and a head in the freezer. Dahmer tried to escape but was
Marcus Larralde 10/21/12 The KKK’s and Racial Problems From the time of early European settlement in the U.S. whites enslaved and considered blacks less than equal human beings. Many consider the civil rights to have begun during the 1950’s, but it actually began as they were brought in chains centuries ago. They sought freedom from their enslavement and demanded citizenship paving the way for the “modern day” civil rights movement. After the Civil War, which brought about the abolition of slavery with the addition of the 13th amendment, citizenship to African Americans (14th amendment) and the right for black men to vote (15th amendment), African Americans still faced a vicious white supremacy that were oppressed to blacks. They would be harassed and victimized by the notoriously known Ku Klux Klan.
The 15th Amendment prohibited the states from denying people the right to vote because of their race. During the late 1870's, white Americans increasingly disregarded the newly won rights of black Americans. The government itself contributed greatly to denying blacks their rights. In 1883, the Supreme Court ruled that congressional acts to prevent racial discrimination by private individuals were unconstitutional. In 1896, in the case of Plessy vs. Ferguson, the Supreme Court upheld a Louisiana law requiring separate but equal accommodations for blacks and whites in railroad cars.