Plastered in magazine covers‚ talked about by government leaders‚ Black Lives Matter is a pretty controversial movement. It all started by the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter on social media following the death of Trayvon Martin in 2012. What is Black Lives Matter all about? Black lives matter is an international movement whose goal was to help the African American community.“The philosophical essence of Black Lives Matter is the plea to fully include black people in the fabric of American life.” As you
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at a young age. With the mom working two jobs‚ he would have to wash his own clothes and start doing things by himself. Later on‚ he would end up being a DCI (Drum Corps Associates) champion. One of Mr. Rowe’s role models is Robert Smith and Manny Ferguson. Robert Smith was the first core
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Community policing is a philosophy that police officers enforce the law with the people of the community‚ not just on the people. Building a trusting relationship between the community and the police officers that serve that community is essential for this philosophy to be effective. Mutual trust and cooperation is the goal‚ hoping to establish an active dialogue between the local law and the citizens they serve. Community policing combines a focus on intervention and prevention through problem
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to New York City; however‚ the demonstrators weren’t protesting Black Friday’s reach into Thanksgiving Day. Instead‚ they were turning to top retailers to protest the lack of an indictment in the death of Michael Brown‚ an unarmed‚ black teen from Ferguson. Now‚ some shoppers are wondering if Black Friday 2015 could see similar protests from “Black Lives Matter” activists. Let’s take a closer look at last year’s protests to see what might hap-pen this year. “Out of the Store‚ Into the Streets!”
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From 1890-1954‚ they pushed for equality. The court’s decision in Plessy V. Ferguson that blacks are separate but equal demonstrated inequality. Jim Crow laws‚ custom beliefs in the society about blacks‚ called for separation of facilities‚ schools‚ and made blacks lower than whites. Later‚ African Americans fought for equality and
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Before the 1960’s‚ children attended segregated schools. Most everything was segregated before the 1960’s. Martin Luther King Jr. and many others have staged demonstrations and protests of racism and segregation. After the Civil War‚ many slaves were free and the south was in ruins. There was no one to enforce the 14th Amendment in the South. The laws and society they were created in the south were called “Jim Crow”. The reason they were called this was that white minstrels would paint their faces
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coming into question and were being considered in this case. The Fourteenth Amendment is the constitutional amendment that affords black citizens “equal protection of the laws” and was set in place to protect the rights of all citizens. Plessy v Ferguson adopted the “separate but equal” doctrine which granted equal treatment in separate facilities. These cases found that all “tangible factors” are equal in respect to the buildings‚ curricula‚ and qualifications of teachers. Delaware adhered to the
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they have the right to an attorney and they reserve the right to waive this right and succumb to interrogation by the police. Research abound that addresses the inability of juveniles in fully comprehending the implication of waiving Mirada rights. Ferguson‚ Jimenez & Jackson (2010) conducted literature review of relevant research studies and lawsuits to establish the fact that juveniles are not properly developed to make informed decisions when it comes to upholding their right to remain silence in
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God and the Atheist In the first chapter of this book‚ the author‚ Paul Ferguson decided to introduced this book by describing person experience with having to explain whether there is a God or not. He was able to say that not only did he have a hard time with his first argument‚ but also that he was able to learn from it. That particular argument made him realize how important it was to “be prepared to give an answer to anyone who asks you to give a reason for the hope that you have” (1 Peter
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We all know as a police officer their job is protect us citizens while trying to detect and fight crime. Because that is their job we trust them to always do the right thing and do right by the law. Unfortunately that doesn’t always happen. There are hundreds of cases all around the world about police officers harming and even killing completely innocent people leaving hundreds of families with broken hearts and no answers to why an innocent life was taken daily. This is known as police brutality
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