1:EVENTS
On The 4th August 2011, at Haringey, Tottenham Hale, Mark Duggan was shot and killed by a policeman after being chased out of a minicab. A firearm was not found on Duggan after he was shot.
Mark Duggan lived with his family in Haringey. He was thought by the police to be a drug dealer and dangerous to the community.
Duggan’s family received no information about his death until a day and a half later, when the news arrived to them through the media. The police did not inform the family about the events. On the 6th August, the family marched down to the Tottenham Police Station to protest about not being informed as well as to get some answers about what had actually happened. This peaceful vigil resulted in two police cars getting
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The rioting started spreading in other areas around London on the 7th August, starting from an incident in Westminster, to Lambeth with a high number of seven incidents, Enfield, Islington, Southwark, Hackney and ending with a loss of 100,000pounds after the looting of a Tesco store in Walthamstow. On the same day, the news arrived even further, at Hertfordshire, causing a riot outburst in Waltham Cross where two jewelry shops were damaged and looted.
On the 8th of August, 21:15pm, a young man was found shot in a car in Croydon. Other events later occurred in Wandsworth, Camden and Lewisham. The same day damages where reported in a restaurant in Birmingham. As the day progressed, several more incidents were reported, other of minor and other of severe damage. At around 22:30 London Road in Croydon closed due to several looted stores and two cars set on fire. The events started to increase significantly in risk, especially in Croydon and
In the year of 1999, Jay Wilds was taken in for questioning on behalf of the information he know about Hae Min Lee’s murder. While the police began questioning him and getting answers, a couple did not match previous answers. Once police knew this no major action or step was taken forward after. Jay’s positive image for himself was the loving grandson and lacrosse athlete . All these images of Jay had painted for himself were great. But the infamous image Jay was known for was being the weed supplier. Once being interrogated by officers he began to make lies as to where he had seen Hae’s body. Revealed later in the 2015 interview, Jay said he had lied to protect his family. Jay had a drug
officers that he did not know why they were there, was pushed to the ground and
On October 20, 2014 a young male teen was fatally shot in Chicago, Illinois. The shooting occurred in the middle of the road and the suspect that was fatally shot was named Laquan McDonald. McDonald was just 17 years old and was the suspect after initial reports placed him in the scene of a possible car jacking. It was reported that Laquan McDonald had a knife and was also seen slashing tires of a police cruiser. When police had finally had him surrounded in the middle of the road, one officer opened fire and released 16 shots into his body. Another deputy on hand said the use of force was not needed because Laquan was not in any way trying to attack the officers present. The officer who fired the 16 shots into Laquan is named Jason D. Van
Furthermore, the public reaction was very unhelpful, as the people in Whitechapel did not like the police for many reasons. The police had brought a bad reputation to their name with acts of violence. Due to this history behind the police, the locals decided not to help the police as much as they could have in their investigations. The lack of policemen did not help either.
The media takes this news focuses on the protestor’s violence and showcases them as the ones creating a scene. The media then showcases police as the ones that have to deal with the situation by detaining citizens, thus making them look like the good guys. The mayor and chief police also take away from the citizen’s freedom by allocating a 7pm curfew and a 25 block ‘no protest zone’. So if individuals were to not follow the set curfew they can be detained even if they had nothing to do with the protest. Police started attacking citizens even before curfew, which stripped citizens more of their freedom and liberty to protest. Individuals who were leaving their office, and who were not apart of the protest were also taken to prison, even when they followed procedure. This proves that the actions taken were not a part of the due process system where we protect individuals but rather part of the crime control module where we screen out innocent people and get them into the
In response to a protest at the McCormick Harvester factory in Chicago where the police reportedly killed six workers, local radicals led by Albert Parsons organized a meeting at Haymarket Square in downtown Chicago. Several thousand showed up to hear the speakers. The speakers were very careful to not incite violence in the already agitated crowd. After the speeches had been given large numbers of people left, however those who remained behind would be forever remembered in our history books. An army of police descended on the crowd and gave them an order to disperse. During the confusion, an unknown person threw a bomb into the crowd of police, killing one officer. Police began to fire on the crowd; the agitated strikers retaliated with a hail of bullets as well. A riot broke out in which one worker was killed and twelve were wounded, one policeman wa...
As the attacks became more gruesome, pressure started to rise for the Phoenix police department. The Phoenix police put up multiple different billboards across the area, “showing a sketch of a dark-skinned man with a mustache, wearing a fisherman’s hat. A team of veteran detectives assembled a special taskforce, spending thousands of hours patrolling in an effort to capture this elusive killer. On July 14, 2006, a tip was received on the Phoenix police’s Silent Witness hotline referring Mark Goudeau. Suggesting that he resembled one of the sketches of the suspect.”(Hogan, Shanna) It was the first time Mark Goudeau’s name had ever popped up in the investigation. When Mark turned twenty-four, he met Wendy Carr at a Phoenix nightclub. They started to become serious, and ended up moving in together. All of the charges were disturbing. Goudeau was accused of beating a woman with a shotgun, and later seen chasing the two witnesses at the scene. Goudeau claimed he was in the wrong place at the wrong time, it was incidental and did not commit the assault. It was his first serious offense and hoped to receive probation at the worst. A year later he was arrested again on charges for robbing a grocery store at gunpoint
One of the most highlighted points I think that Tuttle makes throughout the book is the role of the police. You can apply their actions to all of the riots. They definitely played an important role in these riots. All throughout the book, they were instigators. They made false reports of...
There has been controversy in the world about police brutality and whether police have used excessive force to apprehend a subject is increasing. Police brutality has been around for a long time, but it just now televised. In the late 19th century, the issue of police brutality was often tied to business owners’ efforts to break up strikes by workers attempting to organize and form labor unions, also on a day known as Bloody Sunday where a group of peaceful protesters were literally beaten to the ground, sprayed with tear gas, and water hose by the police (“Police Brutality”). Even in 2015 in Baltimore Freddie Gray, 25-year-old African-American male, died while in police custody due to injuries in the spine and in some parts of Baltimore the
The Major of the county police department ordered them to stop the protesters.They didn’t want the protest to be successful, they thought it wasn’t fair for both blacks and whites to vote. Major John Cloud ordered the 600 marchers, they had less than two minutes to leave. The marchers left the first time, but came back for a second time. The second time they came back, the marchers refused to turn back and got tear gas, beaten with sticks, injured, shot or had a gun pointed to their head, clubs and other weapons. The police officers were wearing protective gear, but the marchers were not. Police officers broke up the group of marchers and then beat them on the highway. On this march, they had governor George Wallace. George Wallace was the 45th governor of Alabama. He too believed that blacks should be treated equally. When the officers were arresting people, they arrested Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He was one of the people who led the marchers from Selma to Montgomery. At night when everybody was marching or in the streets taking a break, police officers would come, shoot the lights out in the street so no one of the marchers could see them. The police officers then beat them. Sometimes, the marchers would go into corn fields to get sleep instead of walking all night or sleeping on the streets. Cops and police officers during Bloody Sunday were just following what they were ordered to
The London Riots took place from the 6th to the 11th of August 2011 in London, England. It started off as a peaceful protest, to attain justice for the killing of Mark Duggan, who was killed by the police for allegedly being armed. The rioting began when the police restrained and injured a 16-year-old girl for throwing a champagne bottle at them. Over the next few days, “copycat” riots began to occur in parts of London and these riots were organized via the use of social media. Although there was no individual culprit of the riot, many believe that some of the blame goes to the media for representing the Mark Duggan case as well as the coverage of the riots wrongly, which in turn sparked subsequent riots in London. In this essay, I will discuss
A video was taken of the whole incident. The officers were acquitted. Numerous people of all colors became livid after they heard this. There were protests and riots, although many just wanted whites and blacks to come together. There are several other accounts of police brutality among individuals.
Squires, P., Kennison, P. (2010) Shooting to kill: Policing, Firearms and Armed Response. Sussex: John Wiley & Sons Ltd
A country with no justice is a country with no peace. The killing of Mark Duggan happened about seven years ago on the 4th of august 2011. Mark Duggan was shot dead in Tottenham, North London, after specialist firearms officers had stopped the cab he was in, on grounds of being in possesion of a firearm, he was later killed by a specialist police marksman also known as V53. A lot of investigations on the killing of Mark Duggan have been carried out as to account for his killing. The police officer, V53 has been blamed by many people for his fatal shootings but there has never been anyone to look into the matter of this police brutality as the government has shown a lot of reluctance within this matter (Davis, 2017). From previous research there
There were several causes which led to this riot and the immediate cause was racial tension. Racism tends to persist most readily when there are obvious physical differences among groups e.g. “Black” and “white” differences. This no doubt results in attempts to limit economic opportunities, to preserve status, to deny equal protection under law and to maintain cheap labor. Discrimination was represented ...