Leonard Peltier Case Study

Simmons picked up the gifts and then drove home to wait out the weekend. On Monday, December 28th, 1987 Simmons drove to Walmart in a car that had once belonged to his son, so that he could purchase a second gun. After he purchased the second gun he proceeded in killing his old coworkers, bosses, and acquaintances, or whom he referred to as “everyone who wanted to hurt me”, he then turned himself over to the Russellville police after they arrived. Simmons was then sent to the “Arkansas State Hospital” in Little Rock where he was given a competency evaluation by the staff psychiatrist Dr. Irving Kuo. Kuo stated that Simmons was sane and capable of standing trial.

Just because a police officer assumes they’re reaching for a gun, trying to run away, attack them, etc.. They think they may do that because they’re wearing a badge and trained, nobody can tell them what to do. Most victims of police brutality weren’t even armed or had any weapons on them and they got beat or killed. For example, the shooting of Michael Brown he wasn’t even armed, and he got killed by Officer Wilson. Witnesses said Brown was moving toward Wilson, with his hands up in surrender and Wilson fired 12 shots in total.

Burke is most likely to receive this sentence, because it is exactly the crime he committed. He committed manslaughter which was proven by the messages on the phone and apparently other evidence that has been found. None of the news reports however, have not stated what the exactly additional evidence found, to prove Burkes guilt, were. If they found the murder weapon with John Burkes fingerprints on them or gun residue on Burke, as well as his clothing he was wearing while committing the crime had blood stains on them.

The trials of Sacco and Vanzetti goes on about how they were falsely executed for murdering a guard and armed robbery because of their immigrant background . After the murderers escaped the scene with the money the police searched a garage to claim a car it was connected to. Sacco and Vanzetti were arrested because victims said it was two Italian men who committed the crime but neither of them had previous trouble with the law. No one really know if they did it because witnesses only said there was two Italian men who did it when any Italian could’ve been a suspect. This trial shows that the 1920’s were prejudiced against certain ethnic group, specifically Italians.

While on a highway, Moses was ambushed by a machine gun that hit his car and injured his partner which was also a SNCC worker, Moses also survived a violent attack by a police dog outside the City Hall in Greenwood. In an interview for Emerge Magazine, Moses

In the 1988 American documentary film, “The Thin Blue Line, by Errol Morris, an American movie director and author, he depicts the story of Randall Dale Adams, a man who was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for murder and David Ray Harris who was also convicted of murder but was able to be free. While driving home, Randall’s car runs out of fuel agrees to hitchhike with David Harris to Dallas. While driving, Harris and Randall become stopped by a Dallas police car that was on the graveyard shift and the car was stolen, therefore the driver takes out his revolver and begins to shoot the incoming officer who was by the window of his car. The police officer, Robert W. Wood, was working the graveyard shift with his partner, one of the first female police officers in Dallas to become assigned a patrol, went over to the car to tell the driver that their headlights weren’t on. The police officer became shot

This makes them seem more like villains than heroes. One case of this is in the murder of Kelly Thomas, “a Californian schizophrenic man who police beat to death in 2011. The story goes that the owner of a club called the police because they were suspicious that someone was breaking into the vehicles. When they arrived, the police saw no evidence of this. They did spot Thomas and they tried to question and frisk him.

According to Balen ( 2015 ) It was said that she was driving a stolen car and her autopsy shows that she was under the influence of alcohol and marijuana. Officers Daniel Greene and Gabriel Jordan said that Jessica was driving towards them and then they began to shoot. If she was driving towards them then why didn 't they move out of the way? Was shooting at her the only solution there was to protect themselves.

yesterday morning. Les Goodman,a Maple Street citizen, had his car mysteriously tutn on, and they bombarded him and made accusations that he was an alien or something. Then suddenly a man named Charlie Fitzgerald’s mechanical objects came on also and they accused him. When I talked to Michael Jackson Jr I found out that a man later died who was known as Peter Van Horn. The police found out that he died from a gunshot and later found out Charlie Fitzgerald shot him out of suspicion.

The latter of which advocated for an increase of both police officer protection and offensive capabilities; during the shootout local L.A.P.D. officers and their firearms which consisted mostly of handguns and shotguns were proven inadequate against the two lone gunmen whom were outfitted with body armor and wielded illegal fully automatic rifles, as a result the on-site officers had to use larger caliber firearms from a neighboring gun store in an attempt to subdue the suspects, however it was until the arrival of the L.A.P.D. S.W.A.T. team that resulted in the death and end of the two gunmen. Because of incidents such as this, police departments issue body armor to officers as apart of their uniform along with patrol rifles housed in police cars in order to match any threat should they arise - in essence the purpose of issuing rifles to officers is to match if not outperform criminals in life or death situations, as a result of which then creates the conflict of police militarization i.e. the issue of police modeling themselves after military tenets along with using militaristic equipment. However most of the stigma surrounding that of police militarization mostly stems from the issue of gun control, especially with the likes of the recent mass shootings. Because of these shootings the general public often associate firearms namely

>>LEARN MORE ABOUT OFFICER TARENTINO IFrame RAW video from witness who heard rapid gunfire when Auburn officer was shot. Suspect fled. @fox25news pic.twitter.com/xS6zWFdiNc — Stephanie Coueignoux (@StephanieFOX25) May 22, 2016 Zambrano has an extensive criminal history, says police. Some of those past charges include drug distribution.

Jeremy went to the police to issue a complaint, because his house was searched, and left a mess. During his complain, Jeremy was question about his son and his confrontation with Crag, he deny everything. Now the detectives are letting him know that Crag was shot in his front yard. After Jeremy was interrogated and was of no help, the detective had no other choice but to reach out to the news. Four days after a local car dealer got in touch with the homicide squad; informing them that, they recently sold a black SUV to Sarah.

David Leon Riley, a gangster who is in the Lincoln Park Gang in San Diego, CA was involved in a rival gang shooting. The rival of Riley’s gang shot at the Lincoln Park Gang and then got into Riley’s vehicle, stole it, and drove off. Riley had his cell phone in his possession when he was apprehended. So a detective analyzed the videos and photographs of Riley making gang signs and other gang indicia that were stored on the phone to verify whether Riley was gang affiliated. On August 22, 2009, the police pulled Riley over which he was driving a different car which later they found out that he was driving on expired license registration tags.

After luring the boy off the playground with bribery of buying him something from the store, one of the three suspects named Boone-Doty led him to an ally. At this time is when 9-year old Tyshawn Lee was shot several times at close range. The autopsy showed Lee had tried blocking one of the shots which took off part of his thumb. He also received shot grazes to

Authorities also wondered how Willis could have escaped the house without burning his bare feet. Fire investigators found pour patterns, puddle configurations, and other signs of arson. The authorities could discern no motive for the crime, but concluded that Willis, who had no previous record of violence, was a sociopath—a “demon,” as the prosecutor put it. Willis was charged with capital murder and sentenced to death. Willis had eventually obtained what Willingham called, enviously, a