Raham Bombing Case

Case Analysis
Madeleine Vasquez
California State University Long Beach
Dr. John Zheng Wang
October 31, 2016

Background
The New York bombing happened on Saturday, September 17, 2016. The explosion began at around eight-thirty in the evening at West Twenty-Third Street and Sixth Avenue in Chelsea, Manhattan. Twenty-nine people were left injured during the explosion and were sent to hospitals until being released the next day on Sunday. The person suspected of this explosion is Ahmad Khan Rahami, age twenty-eight. Investigations were brought out immediately after the explosion occurred. Police also increased their security across New York's five boroughs as a protection to prevent another explosion from happening.
The Federal Bureau Investigators
They took assertive action if any of them saw a vehicle approaching or leaving one of the locations. Later, they saw a car leaving one of the residence. The car was pulled over on the Belt Parkway in Brooklyn. Five people were inside of the vehicle and some of them were Rahami’s relatives. They were brought in for questioning but they were all soon released.
Criminal Evidence
The Federal Bureau Investigators found a family member’s cellphone captured a video of Ahmad Rahami testing bombs in the backyard of his New Jersey home where he lives with his parents. The video was filmed just two days before the bomb was planted. According to an FBI document, after one of the bomb devices explodes, one can overhear people laughing in the background of the video recording who are not yet identified.
The police reviewed a surveillance video captured that showed Rahami near West 23rd Street and Avenue of the Americas wearing a backpack. Investigators believed that the backpack contained one of the pressure cooker bombs. The video also captured him pulling a patterned duffle-type rolling bag that investigators also believe contained another pressure cooker bomb. Rahami was also wearing a fanny pack around his waist which was placed on his left
New York City is a stratified society where it has different cultures and races. Chelsea is where people go to theatres, restaurants, markets, etc. It is a social place where people are always going to be there at any time of the day. The bombs were placed in the busiest places of New York City, which is where it is most impacted with people. It is outside of anyone’s social control to go out to New York or anywhere, place bombs at different locations and detonate them.
It goes out of Ahmad Rahami’s social norms to put people’s lives at risk with explosives. Not only can these bombs harm someone but it can especially go to the extent of killing an innocent citizen. It prevents people from going out anymore and doing their daily outings in New York City because they now have to be cautious wherever they go. New York City has societal wealth where it can range from middle to lower class. There can be racial decimation since there are many different cultures in New York, which could have triggered Rahami’s actions to place bombs. It may be due to how he perhaps is treated be others or seen as in society. It is questioned to see how one can go as far to harm anyone or