Insidious Disease: Police Brutality Knock, Knock. The police are going door to door, looking for a rape suspect. They knock on the door next to yours: a quiet, legal African American immigrant’s home. He answers, and reaches into his jacket to retrieve his wallet to show his identification to the officers. At the moment, the four policemen open fire forty-one times on the man, and he drops dead.
Baddest dog in Harlem The narrator and he’s friends are hanging out on the rail, talking about who was the best boxer of all time, Willie Murphy the friend of the narrator is kind of arrogant and think he knows who was the best boxer, better than he’s friends. The conversation continuous as Mr. Lynch comes down the street and over to the friends, and starts asking what they are talking about, and then he states he’s own argument about who is best. Suddenly Willie turn around and sees a police force coming down the road and starts interrogate them about someone in a building, near the boys had an automatic weapon. Suddenly a boy claims to have seen someone in the building above, and in seconds the peaceful place starts to be a crime scene. More cops arrive, and they start to figure out that the case involves a crazy person, who has an automatic weapon.
The author opens the story with “Mandy stole my boyfriend, Tiny.” The first sentence already sets the story’s conflict and lets readers understand the plot right in the beginning. The story takes place on the streets of south Minneapolis and deals with the rough lives of Southeast Asian gangs in America. Focusing on the girls in those gangs, the author takes a step away from stereotypical male gang violence stories and places the audience in shoes of an Asian woman. Vang’s descriptive writing is depicted when the two black girls were mugged, “Nikki, my best friend, did a pretend karate kick she saw in a movie just to scare them as we approached cursing and threatening. She loved to perpetuate the myth that all Asians knew Kung Fu.
* Running down the street, texting on his cell phone, struggling to keep his balance, the boy, an uncoordinated thirteen year old, tripped, his arm breaking as if it was a twig. * Walking into her room, watching her brother search through her drawers, the girl, an annoyed older sister, screamed at her brother as if she had just seen a murder. * Running out the back door, jumping towards the fence, watching other dogs walk by, the dog, a large golden retriever, barked, almost as if she was in danger. Bonus Round: Step One: The Car Crashed Step Two: Driving twenty miles over the speed limit, running the red light, hitting the ford truck in the middle of the intersection, the car crashed. Step Three: The car, a blue Honda Civic,
It looks like a normal day. The young guys are quickly accompanied with a cop, and suddenly the area close to the guys has become a crime scene. More cops arrive and the case the cops were working on shows to involve a crazy person shooting with an automatic weapon. The story then starts to take action and the policemen rushes into the nearby apartments followed by a lot of shooting. In the terrifying affair the cops accidently shot a dog, and later on a little boy.
Screeching tires and the sound of glass breaking pulled Antonio from his daydream as he neared the pub he saw an army of policeman dragging men out from the pub and throwing them in to the back of police vans. The men who fought back were beaten with batons and handcuffed their faces pinned to the ground. Antonio hears a familiar voice, it is his friend Baldo, both of his arms are pulled behind his back by two police officers, he is kicking his legs and shouting for the officers to let him go. Antonio rushes over to his friend and shouts at an officer “what isa going ona?” The officer immediately pulls out his baton and approaches Antonio, “here’s another one” the officer calls out, “right, in to the back of the van calmly and you wont be hurt”, “what have I done” calls Antonio, “what has Baldo done, what have all of these men done, these are my friends good hard working people, they do not deserve this treatment”. Antonio is smacked with the baton right in the gut, he bends over clinging to his stomach and the officer strikes
The Senator, The Mayor, and The Highway One day in the neighborhood of Fells Point, Maryland, an angry mob was protesting so loudly that it woke up Miss Barbara Mikulski from her peaceful slumber. Curious and tired, she arose from her bed to investigate. When she walked outside, she asked what all the commotion was about. The members of the mob were ranting and raving about a new interstate that was going to go throught their neighborhood and destroy it. Barbara was outraged about what she was hearing and was determined to do something about this injustice.
Throughout the movie different members of the team encounter multiple acts of racism. In one scene of the movie the team is driving down a road when they come across a lynching mob which they soon discover is burning a black man’s body. Scared out of their minds, they try to quietly back the car up and drive away from the mob but when one of the mob members sees the black people in the car the whole mob starts to chase down the car. The debaters get away in the end but are all still emotionally affected and shaken by what they had seen. So in the final debate of the movie James L. Farmer jr. tells the audience about what they saw uses this awful memory to help their side of the debate.
My friend was arrested and left with some marks. Another incident, I remember back in August 2007 it was one night we were all at the carnival and a big fight broke out. Again everyone scattered everywhere. This time it was one of my best friends, she was trying to gather everyone so we can leave the carnival but two of us were missing. We all split up, me and her stayed around each other and the officers came telling us to leave we told him “Officer were just looking for our friend so we can leave” but he was not hearing us, he just kept yelling and yelling.
Genovese screamed, "Oh my God, he stabbed me! Help me!" Her cry was heard by several neighbours but, on a cold night with the windows closed, only a few of them recognized the sound as a cry for help. When Robert Mozer, one of the neighbours, shouted at the attacker, "Let that girl alone!" Moseley ran away and Genovese slowly made her way toward the rear entrance of her apartment building.