Tamir Rice Shooting: Not Just A Tragedy Analysis
Many people believe that police brutality in America is a problem. Others have a different thought on the matter. People believe that it is a problem because of what they see in the news and media. They only see one side of the story, not both sides. People only think that colored people get killed by police officers, but that's not the case at all. People always bring race into the killings and say “The white officer shot the man because he was black”. They don't look at both sides of the story. They only see and know what the media shows them. Some protests in the past turned violent and the police had to come in and control the protesters. Just this year someone was so fed up with cops killing black people that during black lives matter
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protest they actually shot and killed five police officers in Dallas, Texas. Now that is taking it to the extreme. So here are some examples of this so called “police brutality”. In the article “Black Child With BB Gun Is Shot by Police in Columbus Ohio” written by Richard Pérez-Peña, he writes about why the teenager was shot. The boy’s name was Tyree King. The minor was with two other males and that matched the description given to the police after an alleged armed robbery. The officers saw them and two of them fled and were chased into an ally. That’s when Tyree pulled what seemed to be a gun but, was actually BB gun from his waistband and was shot by an officer. There was no way to tell whether the gun was real or fake so the officer shot. The BB gun did not have the orange tip to differentiate that it was a fake gun. The toy gun was almost an exact replica of a standard issue Smith & Wesson Military & Police. “The Officer was identified as Bryan Mason, a nine-year veteran” (Pérez-Peña 1). The author states “Tyree’s death is one in a long string of deaths of black people at the hands of the police”(Pérez-Peña 1), black people aren’t the only ones getting killed by officers, white people are also getting killed. It has nothing to do with race. People uproar when a white cop shoots a black person but no one bats an eye when a white man is shot and killed. People let the media determine what happened. The media shows people what they want them to see not what actually happened. So the people that watch the news and media only see one side of the story, not both sides. Starting next year, Columbus police officers will wear cameras. The thesis statement of this article is “Thursday, hours after a white police officer fatally shot a 13-year old African-American boy who had apparently brandished a firearm that was later determined to be a BB gun” (Pérez-Peña). The purpose is to inform people what happened. The author’s intended audience was most likely people interested in the news and what's happening in the country. In the second article “Tamir Rice Shooting: Not Just a Tragedy” author Joseph P.
Williams, writes about how a young 12-year-old boy is shot and killed by a police officer. The boy was shot because the police got a call from someone saying that there is a person in the park pointing a gun at people. “Although they said the gun was “probably fake” and the person was “probably a juvenile.” (Williams). However, that message was not relayed to the police. The officers arrived on scene and “got out, drew his weapon and fired as the boy reached for the gun in his waistband” (Williams). Tamir possibly could have been handing over the weapon or trying to show the officers that the weapon was fake. In the article, the author states that the officers were white. It doesn't matter whether they were white or black. Once again people bring race into it. There is no way of knowing if the boy was trying to surrender or attempt to hurt the officers with the pellet gun. The author also writes about a recent study that has been conducted that resulted in finding out that both black and white officers are more likely to draw their weapon and fire at an African American person of suspicion rather than a white subject in the same scenario. A new bill is being enforced to make sure manufacturers that produce toy guns in colors that won’t be misguided as a real gun. The thesis of the article is “When a Cleveland prosecutor announced Tuesday that'd he'd recommend a grand jury not indict a city police officer for gunning down a 12-year -old boy armed with a toy pellet gun, he called it a confluence of human error, mistakes, and miscommunication” (Williams). The purpose of the article was to inform and to potentially persuade the reader. The intended audience could likely be anyone
interested. The second article was more reliable because it happened several years ago so there are more details on the incident. It also had some facts in it. The article that best suits its audience would most likely be the second one because it was more informative on the topic. It had much more detail and then some.
protest they actually shot and killed five police officers in Dallas, Texas. Now that is taking it to the extreme. So here are some examples of this so called “police brutality”. In the article “Black Child With BB Gun Is Shot by Police in Columbus Ohio” written by Richard Pérez-Peña, he writes about why the teenager was shot. The boy’s name was Tyree King. The minor was with two other males and that matched the description given to the police after an alleged armed robbery. The officers saw them and two of them fled and were chased into an ally. That’s when Tyree pulled what seemed to be a gun but, was actually BB gun from his waistband and was shot by an officer. There was no way to tell whether the gun was real or fake so the officer shot. The BB gun did not have the orange tip to differentiate that it was a fake gun. The toy gun was almost an exact replica of a standard issue Smith & Wesson Military & Police. “The Officer was identified as Bryan Mason, a nine-year veteran” (Pérez-Peña 1). The author states “Tyree’s death is one in a long string of deaths of black people at the hands of the police”(Pérez-Peña 1), black people aren’t the only ones getting killed by officers, white people are also getting killed. It has nothing to do with race. People uproar when a white cop shoots a black person but no one bats an eye when a white man is shot and killed. People let the media determine what happened. The media shows people what they want them to see not what actually happened. So the people that watch the news and media only see one side of the story, not both sides. Starting next year, Columbus police officers will wear cameras. The thesis statement of this article is “Thursday, hours after a white police officer fatally shot a 13-year old African-American boy who had apparently brandished a firearm that was later determined to be a BB gun” (Pérez-Peña). The purpose is to inform people what happened. The author’s intended audience was most likely people interested in the news and what's happening in the country. In the second article “Tamir Rice Shooting: Not Just a Tragedy” author Joseph P.
Williams, writes about how a young 12-year-old boy is shot and killed by a police officer. The boy was shot because the police got a call from someone saying that there is a person in the park pointing a gun at people. “Although they said the gun was “probably fake” and the person was “probably a juvenile.” (Williams). However, that message was not relayed to the police. The officers arrived on scene and “got out, drew his weapon and fired as the boy reached for the gun in his waistband” (Williams). Tamir possibly could have been handing over the weapon or trying to show the officers that the weapon was fake. In the article, the author states that the officers were white. It doesn't matter whether they were white or black. Once again people bring race into it. There is no way of knowing if the boy was trying to surrender or attempt to hurt the officers with the pellet gun. The author also writes about a recent study that has been conducted that resulted in finding out that both black and white officers are more likely to draw their weapon and fire at an African American person of suspicion rather than a white subject in the same scenario. A new bill is being enforced to make sure manufacturers that produce toy guns in colors that won’t be misguided as a real gun. The thesis of the article is “When a Cleveland prosecutor announced Tuesday that'd he'd recommend a grand jury not indict a city police officer for gunning down a 12-year -old boy armed with a toy pellet gun, he called it a confluence of human error, mistakes, and miscommunication” (Williams). The purpose of the article was to inform and to potentially persuade the reader. The intended audience could likely be anyone
interested. The second article was more reliable because it happened several years ago so there are more details on the incident. It also had some facts in it. The article that best suits its audience would most likely be the second one because it was more informative on the topic. It had much more detail and then some.