On the Pine Ridge Reservation on June 26, 1975 a shoot-out resulting in the death of two FBI agents was soon to be the responsibility of Leonard Peltier, a well know organization leader of the American Indian Movement. People from Pine Ridge, South Dakota asked Peltier along with other AIM members to camp out on the ranch to protect them form violence. The two FBI agents followed a pickup truck onto jumping bull’s ranch. Instantly families became alarmed and thought they were being attacked. When shots were fired the AIM members shot back to protect the people.
Kody Woerner Mrs. Zauner Contemporary English 10 October 2013 Courage is everything War, terrible war. When you first think of war, what do you think of? If you are anything like me you would think of the horrors that war brings. In the book Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden, the American military is in Somalia to take down a ruthless dictator who takes food hostage from the people of his country causing mass famine. A group of rangers goes in to the town to take down two of the dictator’s right hand men.
By examining these three symbols, it can be determined that Beah used many symbols in his novel in order to emphasize his central theme as well as convey the appropriate emotions to the reader. Guns are a very prominent symbol in the novel. In the beginning, Ishmael was very afraid of guns. He says, “A bullet hit a tree directly above my head and fell on the ground next to me. I halted and held my breath.” (Beah, 35) This is when the rebels invaded a village he was in and started shooting at him.
In the story of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence, a young lawyer by the name of Ransom Stoddard moves out West to a place that is referred to as “south of the picket wire.” After some research it has been suggested that this area referred to the Purgatoire River in Arkansas. On his way to the town of Shinbone, Ransom Stoddard’s stagecoach is robbed by a gang lead by the most notorious criminal in the area, Liberty Valence. Valence takes everthing thing of Stoddard’s other then his law books and some clothes and then brutally beats him. Left for dead, Stoddard is found by Tom Doniphan, the real toughest man in the area, who takes him to town to be treated. In an exchange between Doniphan and Stoddard about Liberty Valence Doniphon reveals that Stoddard is too soft to take on Valence because, “Liberty Valence is the toughest man south of the picket wire, next to me!” From that day forward Stoddard began to teach at the local school house and opened his own law office and eventually was voted as the territory’s representative to Washington, over Liberty Valence, so they could reach statehood.
Tino jumped the fence first, and reached for Luis’s hand but the police grabbed hold of Luis. Then the police called out “Get down here . . . you greaser!” In society’s view Los Angeles police department is thought to be bias against blacks, Mexicans, and Hispanics.
Claiming that it was self-defense even though Trayvon was unarmed, Zimmerman shot him as he said he looked suspicious. Since that day, friends, family, and even the people that he didn’t even know marched toward the police stations and court houses demanding the justice for Trayvon and the arrest for Zimmerman. Many of them were holding up signs saying “Justice for Trayvon!” They weren’t leaving until he had justice. Most of them were wearing hoodies and brought skittles and ice teas in honor of him at the time. It was quite overwhelming to see and read about the entire community coming for someone’s brother, son, nephew and even grandson.
Their captain, Lander McNelly is outwitted by the bandits and their leader, John King Fisher, and is involved in multiple shootouts and gun fights and looses a lot of his men. This film incorporates all the stereotypical western images people have come to know and expect from Western films.
The obvious examples in the past were when police officers have a power to arrest with ‘sus’ laws, under the 1824 Vagrancy Act (s4 and s6). Many people saw and ethnic minorities felt the abuse of this practice. Police officer stop and search and arrest people based on ‘intent to commit an arrestable offence’ for people grouping in public area. Hunte (1966: 12) mentioned ‘nigger hunting’ activity by junior police officer. Due to this problem, Scarman Report suggested to reform ‘recruitment and training’ because of racism in young police officers.
Columbine Massacre Criminology March 12, 2009 On April 20, 1999 in Littleton, Colorado two students Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris committed what is thought to be one of the worse school massacres to ever happen. To this day law enforcement officials as well as others continue looking for just cause as to why these boys would commit such acts, and in the end take their own lives. The massacre that was committed by Dylan and Eric was not only criminal, but deviant as well. Criminal acts are those violating the law, which Eric and Dylan did on numerous levels during this massacre. They had possession of illegal firearms which included a Intratec TEC-DC9, a Hi-Point 995 Carbine, Savage 67H pump action shotgun, and a Stevens 311D double
As soon as Moran’s men came inside to pick up the alcohol, Al’s men, dressed as police arrested them. Then the police imposters shot down all seven of Moran’s men. Moran ran away unharmed. Dr. Fredrick L. Hoffman, a researcher of U.S. crime stated how corrupt the U.S. was by saying “ Our murder record of approximately 12,000 persons each year is a most serious indictment of American civilization, and evidence of lawlessness which has no counterpart in any other country in the world” (Scott). Capone and many other gangs terrorized cities with the fear of getting caught in the middle of a shootout (Yancey