Terence Crutcher

On September 2016, Terence Crutcher, an African American male was shot by a police officer, in Tulsa Oklahoma. That morning the police received a call that said there was an abandoned vehicle on the road, people claimed to have seen Terence smoking something and were scared. When the police came down to the scene, they claimed that Terence refused to take his hands out of his pockets. The officers also claimed that he was going to his car, one officer tased him, and Officer Shelby shot him. But for what was the killing of an innocent African American worth? 

How long will all these shootings go on for? The shooting of African Americans by White cops has increased drastically. But it isn’t necessarily a race issue. The day after Terence Crutcher was shot and killed Keith Lamont Scott, was also shot and killed in North Carolina, but by a Black Police officer. “This is not a black/white thing. This is a blue/black thing.” The United States needs to come together and try to fix the problem with African Americans and Police officers. I feel as if it is a racial profiling problem, if a white male was going back to his car the officers would just grab him instead of shooting and killing Terence. One problem with this situation with Terence Cruthcher was that Officer Shelby was so close to him that she could’ve taken out her Taser and tased him. There was no need to take the life of Terence, and for what, what was he doing to scare the police officers? 

The article that I read on CNN seemed as if it was written from more of a neutral point of view instead of addressing the problem point of view. I kind had a problem with it the first time I read it because it seemed as if they were going towards the officer’s point of view, when I feel as if it was clearly the officers’ fault for shooting and killing and innocent African American male. Shelby was later charged with manslaughter, so how can it not be falling towards the African Americans point of view. There would be no need to feel as if we should pick sides if this problem had been addressed earlier, or now. This isn’t just a onetime things this problem has been here for a while and it is causing a problem in the African American communities. Living with this kind of a sense of fear shouldn’t be inside of them. 

 

The goal that CNN was trying to achieve was to state the problem and to say what others think about it. Things shouldn’t be blown out of proportion by social media. By just giving facts and what happened we could all see what the problem was in this situation. The goal that needs to be achieved in the United States is that they need to look at the police Department and fix the problem in there of racial profiling. Racial profiling has always been a problem in the United States and not just for African Americans. With this still as an issue, there is almost no way to help united America to the way that it was before. 




"Tulsa Police Shooting Investigated by Justice Department." CNN. Cable News Network, n.d. Web. 28 Sept. 2016. 

New York bombing

On Sunday night at 8:30 in Manhattan New York, a gas bomb went off in a trashcan found somewhere on the street. Managing to not kill any civilians luckily this act was seen as terrorism. Investigations have been going on since then as of why, and who did this. As of this Monday police has claimed to have gotten the suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami. He is also claimed to have been linked to the pipe bombs which were found in New Jersey a few days before. 

This article written is skewed to Americans. Another terror attack on United States soil, defiantly a problem for most Americans. If people were to die during this attack there would be even more publicity on then there already is. These attacks seem to becoming more and more common for the United States. When will all these attack finally end? 

Acts like this in the United States seem to have non-stop coverage unlike other events that happen there. New York City, one of the biggest cities in the United States, and another act of terror happened there. This is different compared to other things that happen in the United States. It almost seems as if the United States wants all these terror attacks to be connect. That could explain why this article was pointed mainly in that direction. 

As the audience of this article I feel like after reading this we need to do something to stop terrorism more and more. This is the affect that an article like this can have on the reader. It also makes me wonder how people could have so much evil inside of them to be willing to kill innocent people like this. It’s also hard to believe that attacks like this has boosted not only in the United States but also in Europe and even all over the rest of the world. 

The purpose of this article is to show how there are problems with terrorism, and it affecting many people with the effect that it leaves. 

"NY, NJ Bombings: Suspect Charged with Attempted Murder of Officers." CNN. Cable News Network, n.d. Web. 20 Sept. 2016.