He then drove her around town, sexually assaulted her twice, stopped the car and left. The victim was medically treated and examined. Sexual assault and a severe chest wound were confirmed. At the time of his arrest, Williams told the arresting officer he climbed into the back of the victim’s car, a green Buick, while it was parked because he thought it was his brother’s and he wanted to take a nap. During trial, he testified he knew the victim previously, had sex with her prior to that night and on that night.
"Passenger describes L.A. Police Beating of Driver, Calls it racial," New York Times, March 21, 1991. Freddie Helms was hit in the head while lying on the ground. His bloody baseball cap was turned over to police. Helms were treated for a laceration on the top of his head. "Prosecutor Says Officers Hit Passengers in King's Car," L.A. Times, March 6, 1993.
Amazingly, Ramos, who had already been charged twice with being drunk in public and once with a DUI, walked away from the accident with nothing but a swollen cheek. This horrific tragedy is described in a report on the WAVY TV 10 local news channel in Virginia found on the website http://www.wavy.com/global/story (1). A question arises, and that is to why the illegal immigrant was not deported after his first conviction. This is because Virginia law protects people from having immigration checks run through if the offender is only charged with a misdemeanor (Frank 2). In a heated debate on the “O’Reilly Factor,” between talk show host Bill O’Reilly and journalist Geraldo Rivera, the issue was being pulled in a game of Tug-O-War.
20 Apr. 2014. "Judge orders Texas teen Ethan Couch to rehab for driving drunk, killing 4." CNN Wire 6 Feb. 2014. Opposing Viewpoints in Context.
Brinegar v. United States 338 U.S. 160 69 S. Ct. 1302; 93 L. Ed. 1879; 1949 U.S. LEXIS 2084 Facts: Brinegar had a reputation for illegally transporting liquor across state lines. The officer recognized the defendant one day, while parked by the highway, and noticed that the defendant's vehicle looked "heavily loaded." When he pulled Brinegar over, the officer could see one case of alcohol in the front seat of the car. The defendant later on denied that any liquor was visible.
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.
He is socially inept, awkward with people and has a set of ideals by which he lives which indicates that he is suffering from depression. Holden is suffering from a mental disorder which is caused by the death of his brother Allie of which he has not allowed himself to grief properly. In Chapter 5 Holden talks about his brother Allie and what he did after he died. He says “I was only 13 and they were going to have me psychoanalyzed and all, because I broke all the windows in the garage”. Holden narrates that he smashed windows of the garage and cars, and he literally lost it.
How many of you know anyone who has been hit, injured or even killed in a car accident? Did you know that one in four fatal car crashes are a result of alcohol, with that even rising to one in three in some states (Drink Wise Australia: Drink Driving)? A friend of mine was driving around one day when her car was hit by a drunk driver who smashed the side of her car, writing the car off. Thankfully no one was hurt, but you can see the effects of alcohol on people who are older and more mature. Imagine what could happen to the more immature teenagers when they get drunk.
February of 1999 and man named Amadou Diallo was unarmed when he was fired at 41 times by police officers, and even saying that the mayor of New York City, at the time, still were acquitted, stating that “ Probably until the day I die, I will always give the police officers the benefit of the doubt” (Progressive, 2000, p. 19) There continue to be frequent reports of unjustified police shootings, with officers firing at unarmed suspects, fleeing from non-violent crimes, at the end of pursuits, during traffic stops or in other circumstances. In Kansas City 1998 a 13 year old black child, Timothy L. Wilson was driving a friends pick-up truck, and was shot dead at the end of a brief chase. All the officers cleared of any wrong-doing. California in 1999 during a narcotics raid SWAT fired at an elderly man, and no drugs were found during the raid. In Chicago in 1998 police officers shot and killed 71 people and in the same year 7 people were killed in Tulsa, Oklahoma (Amnesty International, 1999, p. 23).
Many civilians, including myself, believe that these police officers think they can do these things because they believe they are merely ‘’above the law.’’ This summer I was a victim of such crimes brought about by the New York Police Department. Due to the simple fact that I was only 16 years old and out late, I was seriously hospitalized and incarcerated. As I walked down a dark and discreet block with a friend of mine, I heard a deep voice bark at me. “Stay where you are!” I stopped in an instant, only to immediately get roundhouse punched across the face. Then I was maliciously thrown face first into the hood of the police car, cuffed accordingly, and repeatedly beat in the face a number