Article link: http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/08/us/south-carolina-officer-charged-with-murder/index.html
MLA Citation:
Fantz, Ashley, ed. "South Carolina Shooting: Officer Charged and Fired;
Protesters Demand Justice." CNN. Ed. Holly Yan. Cable News Network, 2015.
Web. 11 Apr. 2015. <http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/08/us/
south-carolina-officer-charged-with-murder/index.h
On Tuesday April 7, a white South Carolina police officer, Michael Slager, shot and killed an African-American man, Walter Scott, after Walter ran from the officer. Walter was pulled over by officer Slager for a broken taillight but then used his taser gun and Scott tried to take his weapon according to police reports. There is a video that shows officer Slager shooting Scott eight times and the officer handcuffing him while he is on the ground suffering from a shot in the back. The video shows much more and that the officer did not help until the ambulance had come. Scott was pronounced dead at the scene and protest are going on now because Scott was unarmed and appeared to be innocent. Office Slager is now in custody and the people of the state are speaking out and showing what they think.
This article connects to the Michael Brown case by mentioning the protesters and how they do not want another case like that one. It brings up the trouble this world has with black against white, especially in the police force. Scott was unarmed but ran away from the officer and this article makes it clear that even if he did run away, that does not deserve to be killed. I agree with that statement, but there is not enough evidence to show who was right or wrong. The video shows the officer doing the wrong things and it also raises a question of him lying that the victim was trying to take his weapon from him. I am not really sure if race has to do with any of this, but many people do believe it does. They are tired of this happening and especially after the Michael Brown case the world needs peace between this issue of officers being racist.
Article #2
Article Link:
MLA Citation:
Seelye, Katharine. "Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Is Guilty on All 30 Counts in Boston
Marathon Bombing." The New York Times. New York Times Company, 8 Apr. 2015.
Web. 11 Apr. 2015. <http://mobile.nytimes.com/
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In the afternoon of Wednesday April 8, the verdict for the trial for the Boston Marathon bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was determined and had courtroom silenced as the heard his fate. He was guilty for all 30 counts and this was not much of a surprise for the world. The tragic bombing had impacted the city and all of America emotionally and physically. Three were killed and a police officer was also killed trying to stop the two brothers. The article explained what had happened two years ago and the chase with the police force to find the two terrorist. Dzhokhar's brother was killed while they captured Dzhokhar's himself. Of course he was guilty, but the prosecutors were nervous as to if he would be guilty on all counts. Now the decision for the upcoming week is to whether he will be sentenced to life in prison or the death penalty.
This article gives the readers a feel for what the court room was like during this intense trial. Interviews from some of the many victims of the bombing talked and said he should get what he deserves. I think it says a lot when the defense did not try to say he isn't guilty because the evidence that was given shows he is. "We are not asking you to go easy on him" was what the the defense lawyer said to the jury. The United States was impacted by this tragic event and I think everyone feels the same about this subject and this feeling is sadness. We feel as if this terrorism needs to be stop and I think this is a big step to stopping these kind of attacks. It shows we will not sit around and watch it happen and we will take action to preventing this. I think he should serve his time in jail so he can realize his actions and take his punishment. Most of the country agrees with this according to surveys from news stations so I think the jury should recognize what we want as well.
Article #3
Article Link: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/04/12/world/africa/idle-ebola-clinics-in-liberia-are-seen-as-misstep-in-us-relief-effort.html?_r=0
MLA Citation:
Onishi, Norimitsu. "Empty Ebola Clinics in Liberia Are Seen as Misstep in U.S.
Relief Effort." The New York Times. New York Times Company, 2015. Web. 12
Apr. 2015. <http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/04/12/world/africa/
idle-ebola-clinics-in-liberia-are-seen-as-misstep-in-us-relief-effort.html?_r=0>.
With the Ebola outbreak happening in Liberia, the United States is doing all it can to help. This includes sending many troops, lots of money for doctors and to find cures and medicines, and also building care centers. The country's health care is not good at all so they need aid from countries across the world. The President of the country also said that the communities should help each other and to organize aid to each other that the government can not give to them. The people of the country have to help themselves because their government has not helped them when the outbreak came. With this, the aid was increased to give to the country from the United Nations. This helped volunteers to come but it is still hard for the country to function when their people are dying. Liberia is in need of help from many countries and the U.S. has put in a lot of help to this country.
I agree with the point that was made about the world getting involved earlier and helping this poor country to stop the outbreak of this terrible disease. However, I disagree with some of the things the article had said. One thing would be the United States spending hundreds of millions of dollars and sending about 3,000 troops to build care centers for the sick but only one or two actually are in use. There was even a decrease in the disease before the first care center even opened. I'm not saying that we shouldn't get involved and help them, we just should've done it sooner. We started helping them when the disease started to spread toward our country and I think this is was very selfish of us. We put in all of this money, which we really can't afford to spend, to build hospitals that have only a couple of patients are in. It is important that we get involved, but wasting money and military use for a disease that has been decreasing is just not smart of us as a country.
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