At 12:30 am, Officers Tim and Melanie Singer, husband-and-wife members of the California Highway Patrol, noticed King's car speeding on the freeway. The officers pursued King, and the pursuit attained high speeds. Confrontation Officer Tim Singer ordered King and his two passengers to exit the vehicle and lie face down on the ground. Bryant Allen was manhandled, kicked, stomped, taunted and threatened. "Passenger describes L.A. Police Beating of Driver, Calls it racial," New York Times, March 21, 1991.
When they both stopped at a red light, Sola grabbed a golf club and got out. When he was about to smash the man’s windshield or do him some damage, he realized that the consequence after he did it: what if he killed a man, he went to jail and he destroyed two families because of that moment. So he went back into his car and drove away. From this incident her suggestion to us is that no one seems immune to the anger epidemic. Women fly off the handle just as often as men and young people may seem more volatile, even senior citizens have erupted into “line rage” and pushed ahead of others simply because they felt they had “waited long enough” in their lives.
2000 Word Essay I am writing this essay about Speeding and contacting my chain of command. First off I have to write this essay because I messed up these passed two weeks with something I've done. I was speeding going down the road 258, going West I believe this is correct. I was going 70 in a 55, 15 miles per hour over the speed limit, which was stupid of me. After the police officer gave me the ticket I should have contacted my fire team leader, fire team leader CPL Walls.
An accident happened on Pyramid Highway and it was a fatal one. According to a Trooper, Chuck Allen, an accident involved a 2004 Ford F-350 pick-up truck and a 2006 Subaru Outback wagon. Allen says it appears the accident was caused when the Subaru struck the pick-up, causing it to veer off the roadway and roll-over. The drivers of pick-up truck were not wearing seatbelts and were thrown from the truck. After hitting the truck, the Subaru traveled several hundred feet before it veered off the road, striking a rock, rolling over and then hitting a six-foot-tall fence.
Conflict can also test the extent to which a character possesses a certain attribute. An individual's response to conflict can unmask a merit or strength of character. On the 18th of June 2007, an intoxicated Christopher Wayne Hudson, a member of the Hell's Angels Motorcycle Gang, violently dragged 24 year old Kara Douglas out in the streets of the Melbourne CBD by her hair. In an attempt to assist Douglas, Brendan Keiler, 43 and Paul De Waard, 26, both bystanders, ran out onto the street to try and help resolve the conflict. However, Hudson pulled out a gun and shot all three, instantly killing Keilar.
A Drunken Ride The article, “A Drunken Ride” brings to light many questions about the legal system of our country and its apparent leniency. In the article, a boy makes the decision to drive intoxicated with four other friends in his vehicle. As the night progresses he ends up in a collision and as a result, many people loose their lives. One of the biggest issues here is to what end do we need to punish our children when they make mistakes. Are their minds still open to change?
He was then told to turn around and put his hands behind his head. He did not comply and Trooper Gardner’s first reaction was to deploy his taser and continue to taser Massey. His pregnant wife and son were in the car. September 17, 2007 a twenty-one year old Florida college student is tasered for starting a debate at a John Kerry forum. At the end of Kerry’s speech, Andrew Meyer asked the senator a few questions that stirred up quite a debate.
One of these organizations is known as “Text Kills.” “Text Kills” visits high schools nationwide to demonstrate how texting impairs judgment while driving (TextKills). Through a simulation exercise, teens are put in a stationary automobile in which they ride with a cell phone in the passenger seat. The results of this simulation proved that when the cell phone made a beeping noise, even though it was not theirs, students grabbed it instinctively, taking their eyes off of the road. Students report that during the exercise they crashed many times, and felt like they were not in full control of the vehicle. One student states, “It’s very distracting.
Did you know that 27 people in America die each day due to drunk driving fatalities and another 15 due to fatalities linked to distracted driving? According to Johnston and Wiggins, 2012 Every year there are thousands of fatal car crashes due to distracted drivers. Distracted driving is not only caused from texting & drinking, but from other distractions as well. These distractions include eating, music, children or other passengers in the car, & even putting on makeup or fixing their hair. There are many laws out there that ban texting and drinking while driving to keep people from harm’s way but there are so few people who actually obey the laws.
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).