Tamir Rice Reaction Paper Police and Community relations play an important role in our society. It is important for the community to have trust in the police force as well as the police to be able to trust their citizens that they serve to protect every day. Without these bond incidents such as the death of 12 year old Tamir Rice can and will continue to occur. On November 22, 2014 a man called 911 reporting that there was a juvenile with a gun pointing it at people at the Cudell Recreation Center in Cleveland, Ohio. The man reporting the incident was clam and notified the police that the gun being pointed at people was likely to be not real. The dispatcher at the police station sent patrol officer Garmback and his trainee, Loehmann to Cudell …show more content…
What the 911 dispatcher didn’t tell officer Garmback and officer Loehamann was that the person reportedly pointing guns at people was a child as well as that the gun was possibly fake. The two officers pulled up onto the curve feet within the gazebo where Tamir was sitting. Once the police cruiser pulled up Tamir reached into his waistband and withdrawn his replica gun. Officer Loehmann got out of the police cruiser and fired his on duty weapon twice at close range towards Tamir. Officer Loehmann declared to have hollered out warning signals to Tamir insisting for him to release his weapon but the situation lasted less than two seconds. After officer Loehmann fired two shots neither officer Loehmann or Garmback went to go check on the wounded suspect. Four minutes later an FBI agent emerged onto the scene where he assisted Tamir in medical attention until the ambulance arrived on scene. When asked by the FBI agent on why they didn’t tend to the wounded suspect until ambulance came they replied that “they wanted to do something, but they were unsure on what to do at the time”. The lack of information giving the patrol officers plus the actions of the patrol officers once they arrived on scene resulted in the …show more content…
I feel this way because the dispatcher failed to tell the officers that the suspect was a juvenile as well as the suspect appeared to have a fake gun. If a individual were to call in a report to the police that someone in a public place had a gun I do not believe that individual would be acting in a calm manner or mention that the gun may be fake. The officers went into the area as if there were an active shooter in the premise of the public which was not the case at all. If the dispatcher would have disclosed to the patrol officers the information she was given by the man I feel as though the patrol officers would have approached the situation in a different type of manner. In addition, I believe the patrol officers’ approach to the crime scene was wrong. If they believed there was an active shooter in the public they should have not pulled up feet within the suspect. To further explain my conclusion if officer Loehmann told the suspect Tamir to drop his weapon it would have taken more than two seconds to do so but officer Loehmann opened fire on Tamir in less than two seconds not giving Tamir enough time to process the information and obey by what the officer has told him to do. My last thought of what I believe the patrol officers did was wrong was that they did not tend to the wounded
On October 22, 2013, Andy Lopez, a young teenager at the age of thirteen years old, was shot and killed by a Sonoma County deputy named Erik Gelhaus. The community has taken sides either criticizing the officers actions, or supporting them. Whether the arguments are based on race or police abuse of power, we can clearly see step by step why officer Gelhaus did what he did from the first time he spotted Lopez, when he fired the shots, and by what actions he took after the fatal shootings. When looking at the circumstance as a whole, one can understand that Gelhaus's actions were justified and was done only to protect the community.
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
On September 21, 2016 an unarmed black male named Terrence Crutcher from Oklahoma was fatally shot by a female police officer as he stood outside his vehicle. Police officers responded to Crutcher, age 40, in response to a stalled vehicle in the roadway. At the moment it was unknown to the officers if Crutcher was armed at the time. Police said Crutcher approached the officers after the officers arrived. Investigators said that Crutcher refused to obey several orders given to him to show his hands. Officials said that when Crutcher reached into his car that is when one officer fired his taser while another officer fired one shot.
Police brutality is when a police officer causes serious bodily harm to a civilian. Police brutality is shown by the increasing amounts of Taser deaths each year. A chart created by the Seattle Post Intelligencer shows how during the year two-thousand only one Taser death occurred, but in two-thousand-four that number climbed to a staggering thirty-nine. In Baltimore, Maryland Freddie Grey was found dead while under police supervision. The night of Freddie Grey’s funeral Baltimore erupted in protests and riots. The chaos went on for days, the National Guard eventually came in to restore order and peace to the city. Media in recent months has increased focus on racial police brutality. Incidents of young teens dying have created uproars everywhere, media abuses this continues to fuel the fire and spark more
In 2006 at his bachelor party, just hours before his wedding, Sean Bell was gunned down outside of a strip club in Jamaica. Officers saw Bell arguing with someone outside and believed he was going to get a gun from his car. They shot and killed Bell and injured his two friends (Palmerl and Prendergast). The officers claimed they heard Bell tell his friend to get his gun. When they drove away, they hit one of the cops with their car. The cops opened fire and shot fifty times (Schoetz). I had to really think about this situation and whether or not I agreed with the police. After much thought, I do agree with the police officers’ decision to shoot because as soon as they think they heard the word “gun” they start to fear for their own lives and have to defend themselves. The cops were later acquitted of their charges
In reference to a twelve year old named Tamir Rice being shot in Cleveland. The city rioted after finding that the accused police officer was deemed innocent in the murder of the twelve-year-old. This situation was visualized as "a pattern or practice of unreasonable and unnecessary use of force" and "the employment of poor and dangerous tactics that place officers in situations where avoidable force become inevitable."
Casebolt’s actions were unpardonable due to him coming to the scene emotionally distressed, after answering two suicide calls. Casebolt since then has apologized many times for his conduct and representation of his team and training in a negative light (Holley and Izadi). I agree that the calls may have taken a toll on his day, but I do not agree with the way he treated the children. His emotions should have been handled before he gotten there or he should have left work until his mind was free from what he had experienced earlier that day. Instead, Casebolt “blew his credibility” when he manhandled the African American teenagers. To support this argument the police chief over then officer Casebolt stated, “I had 12 officers on the scene, and 11 of them performed according to their training” (Fantz, Yan, and Shoichet). This statement that the chief of the police department made, lets us know that Casebolt, was not trained to act in that way because the other officers that were called to the scene demonstrated authority
How would you feel if your child was killed ? While plauing inside of a park with a toy gun ? Well this is what happened to Tamir Rice . On November 23 , 2014 was the day Tamir Rice another young african-american boy was killed by the police. Due to the fact that the police fept very threatened by Tamir Rice , Just like all the other African-American men that were killed by the police. On this day some felt as if this case was justified and some felt it was unjustified. I felt that this case was unjustified because it was an racial crime , officer ignored proper procedure however ; his only threat was being a 12 year old with a toy gun.
A father purchased a toy gun as a birthday gift for his young son. His son went outside to play and and encountered a police officer who shot him seven times. This incident occurred in Sonoma County in October 2013. A similar incident occurred in November 2014 when Cleveland police killed a 12-year-old boy carrying a toy gun. Use of excessive force by police is common in impoverished "black" or "brown" communities.
Over the years, this country has witnessed many cases of police brutality. It has become a controversial topic among communities that have seen police brutality take place in front of their homes. Officers are faced with many threatening situations everyday forcing them to make split second decisions and to expect the worst and hope for the best. Police officers are given the power to take any citizens rights away and even their lives. With that kind of power comes responsibility, that’s one major concern with the amount of discretion officers have is when to use force or when to use lethal force. The use of excessive force may or not be a large predicament but should be viewed by both the police and the community.
Over the years, this country has witnessed many cases of police brutality. It has become a controversial topic among communities that have seen police brutality take place in front of their homes. Officers are faced with many threatening situations everyday forcing them to make split second decisions and to expect the worst and hope for the best. Police officers are given the power to take any citizens rights away and even their lives. With that kind of power comes responsibility, that’s one major concern with the amount of discretion officers have is when to use force or when to use lethal force. The use of excessive force may or not be a large predicament but should be viewed by both the police and the community.
For many years in the past, police action particularly police abuse, has come to be unclear. Citizens are worried about protecting them from criminals. In fact they need to me aware of the corrupt police officers that are in the streets today as well as the criminals. There are many examples that make police brutality the worst as it is today. This one is one of them. Police Officer Daniel is in the choke hold death of Eric Garner, come in the wake if November 15th by the channel 24 news in Ferguson Missouri, police officer would walk free after killing 10 year old Michael Brown. (www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-32740523) In the present police brutality does exist in the mist of us in the time and age we live in everyday. We just haven’t seen it yet. There are people that think if a police
Recently in the United States there has been in increase in deaths that have come from police officers using deadly force. The use of force is inevitable as a police officer, many times their own lives or the life’s civilians are at risk when it comes to determine what type of force a officer should use. There are many incidents where police officer have to react in a matter of seconds and has to choose between his own life or that of the individual causing the disturbance. When a Police Officer uses deadly force has caused outraged with the public, stirring up protests and creating a scandal for the police officer and the Police Department. Many do not know when it is right for an officer to use deadly force and what constitutes it, or what happens when the officer does not use the appropriate amount of force that is required to control the situation. There has been many changes in Police Departments around the country to try to reduce the use of deadly force in response to the issues that have occurred because of it.
Police shootings occur all over the world but are a huge problem within the United States. We continue to hear more and more about them. These shootings are making headlines. Front page news it seems almost weekly. All the shootings go one of two ways. Either a Police Officer has been shot or a Police Officer has shot a citizen, but either way the final result is death. Whether an Officer has been shot or an Officer has shot someone these cases seem to be related to one thing, fear. People in today’s society feel as though they can’t trust Police Officers as they are there to hurt and kill them. And Police Officers feel as though they are in danger of doing their everyday duties because people see them as the “bad guys” and want to hurt or kill them. Yes, police brutality and racism still exist, but not all cops are bad. Yes there are still bad citizens in this world that want to kill and harm others, but not all citizens are bad. People seem to react to these shootings by rioting quickly after a police officer has shot and killed someone without
Mr. Rodriguez called 911 to report loud music from his neighbor’s house. He then walked to his neighbor’s house with his firearm and a video camera. After the confrontation with his neighbor, he called law enforcement once more to tell them he felt threatened and that he was standing his ground. While Paul Rodriguez waited for law enforcement to arrive at the scene, he used deadly force against Kelly Danaher. In this case, Mr. Rodriguez initiated the confrontation and there was no proven evidence that he was in danger (Flatow,