The encounter ends with Brown on the ground with 8 shots in him. What happened that made the officer shoot the teen though? St. Louis County Police Chief Joe Belmar claims “Brown physically assaulted the officer, and during a struggle between the two, Brown reached for the officer's gun. One shot was fired within the car followed by other gunshots outside of the car (Gannett).” How could we possibly know if this was what actually happened though? For all we know the officer is making this story up to protect his career from a possible mistake that he made.
The story of Ronald Gene Simmons. On the 22nd of December, 1987 the worst mass murder in Arkansas history took place. A man by the name of Ronald Gene Simmons went on a killing spree. He started off by killing his wife, kids, and his three year old granddaughter, but it didn’t stop there. He killed his family and quite a few harmless townspeople because he went insane, because why else would you kill harmless people?
An incident on September 16, 2007, illustrates the kind of questionable behavior in which some of Blackwater’s employees have been involved. While traveling through the streets of Baghdad, employees that were hired to protect an American in Iraq shot and killed seventeen unarmed civilians. Many witnesses at the square reported that the Iraqis were unarmed and not trying to harm anyone. Reports from the witnesses state that a car failed to stop for the police and had appeared to be in a state of panic due to the chaos. Blackwater employees began to shoot at the vehicle killing a young family, and then paraded the
However, Hudson pulled out a gun and shot all three, instantly killing Keilar. Whilst the nature and outcome of this conflict is tragic, it illustrates the extent to which an individual's strengths of character can be exposed through their response to conflict. The actions of the two bystanders perfectly displayed their bravery and courage. Reaction to conflict can expose character flaws. The My Lai Massacre, arguably the most shocking incident of the Vietnam War, was the mass murder of between 304 and 547 unarmed civilians, commuted by an U.S infantry platoon.
People at times have been confused with the difference between voluntary manslaughter and involuntary manslaughter. But there is a substantial difference between the two that can help one to more thoroughly understand what the key difference is between the two. When it comes to voluntary manslaughter, the person commits the crime intentionally with reason, but involuntary manslaughter on the other hand is when someone is killed and the person accused of the killing did not intend to kill that person. For example; a doctor whom tried to do an illegal surgery or illegal practice to save or help someone and the patient ends up dying. The doctor had no intentions of a death occurring but a death ended up occurring, that would be involuntary manslaughter on the practitioner’s part.
We see in the murder of the woman in the street that the sniper doesn’t seem to mind her shrieks of terror followed by the grim silence of death. It is not until his realization that he killed his brother that his character’s shift is revealed. We learn by his reaction of killing his “enemy” that he may not have been as aloof to death and comfortable with war as previously thought. He was described to have lost the passion of war, perhaps even questioning it’s motives. It’s clear that the author
With the aid of his vigilante force, the Guardians of the Oglala Nation (GOON’s) he attacked the “traditionalists”. Over sixty murders have occurred in this reservation between the year 1973 and 1975 and still remain unsolved. To protect the Reservation, traditionalist requested the AIM to allocate them members to protect them from further attacks by the GOON’s. Among them was Leonard Peltier, who at the time was being accused of the attempted murder of a police officer in Wisconsin. On June 26, 1975 FBI agents, Ronald A. Williams and Jack R. Coler were allegedly shot dead by Leonard
But how I see it is, you do the time for your crime. Sometimes innocent by standers get hit because they were at the wrong place at the wrong time. That’s not fair on the innocent by standers part. They lost their life because of someone stupid mistake or someone else grudge. Second reason is people use them in the wrong way.
This is the point where he fires several shots into Key's legs and thighs forcing him to fall into a fence. Key begged for his life, but Sickle took the gun and fired pointblank at his chest. Sickles was acquitted of murder and allowed to be freed after his attorney said, "Sickles could not be held responsible because he was driven insane by the knowledge his wife was sleeping with Phillip Key." The insanity defense was created for people who don't have the intent required to perform a criminal act because a. they don't know what their doing is wrong or b. they cannot control their actions even when they know it's wrong. I believe that Daniel Sickle did what many others have done and continue to do, manipulate and abuse a plea intended for people who cannot help themselves.
Guns can be hazardous, but only if they are in the hands of violent individuals. Gun is just a weapon made to protect one’s rights and, or to kill the other. However just like any other weapon, it can be used to inflict pain or worse, slaughter. With the recent crime, between 1999 and 2005 a wave of schoolyard shootings shocked the nation that sparked a general debate about gun violence. “It cannot be true that possession of firearms causes ordinary people to murder -- for murderers are virtually never ordinary, but rather are extreme aberrant with life histories of crime, psychopathology and/or substance abuse.” The violence caused by guns is because of the person on the other end not the gun.