Charles Blow's Caution To Wait And Hear All The Facts

Charles Blow’s Caution to Wait and Hear All the Facts
Charles M. Blow's article “Suicide of a Dishonest Officer” shares a clear message for his readers that people need to know the full story and the facts before they jump to conclusions and “Not everything in real life fits into a narrative” (Blow). To get his intended message across, Blow writes using a strong appeal to logos by uses examples from some well known individuals to convince his readers that by jumping to conclusions “they pushed an association that didn't exist” (Blow). Blow's article serves as a warning for people to stop and wait for all the answers before they come to a conclusion that could embarrass them and hurt others in the process.
The article first grabs our attention
Using quotes from Governor Scott Walker, former United States Secret Service agent Dan Bongino, and news personality Megyn Kelly, all of whom jump to the conclusions about Gliniewicz death and that he was targeted because he was a law enforcement officer and that this act was sparked by the by the Black Lives Matter Movement. Governor Scott Walker went further and pointed a finger at President Obama for the “racial tensions” and a “tendency to use law enforcement as a scapegoat.” Blow went further and added a quote from Gliniewicz’s widow stating that she had not heard from the president and said, “When our officers can’t go home without being shot at, then there’s a problem” (Blow). Blow uses all of these well known individuals and their quotes as examples to “illustrate the ultimate danger of reactionary narrative-building and rabid hashtag orthodoxy” (Blow). His message is for us to stop and think before we jump to conclusions. If one can assume “that not every black life is taken with malice,” then maybe “not every police officer's life taken is the result of a hostile policing environment” (Blow). Blow clearly constructs a logical argument that makes one think about the other side of this