Current Event for the Week of 3/12
Lawyers: Grand jury indicts at least 3 officers
A grand jury Friday indicted at least three of the five police officers whose 50-shot barrage killed an unarmed man on his wedding day, lawyers for the officers said. It was not immediately disclosed if the other officers were also charged.
Read the article here.
Do you think what these men did was morally correct? Do you think they did it as a hate crime? Should police be allowed such freedoms? How do you think his fiancee and child will deal with his loss?
A grand jury Friday indicted at least three of the five police officers whose 50-shot barrage killed an unarmed man on his wedding day, lawyers for the officers said. It was not immediately disclosed if the other officers were also charged.
Read the article here.
Do you think what these men did was morally correct? Do you think they did it as a hate crime? Should police be allowed such freedoms? How do you think his fiancee and child will deal with his loss?
posted by phs_sociology at 5:40 PM
4 Comments:
I don't know whether the officers' actions was justifiable, the article isn't clear about the situation surrounding the shooting. I don't think shooting a man to death is ever an okay thing to do, no matter what his offense. No one should have the freedom or right to take another person's life.
In the article it is not clear why the officers were shoting in the first place. NO one should be able to take anothers life no matter what the circumstances without conquences. I think the officers are getting exactly what they deserve because from the way it sounds the man posed no threat to anyone because he was not armed.
The article didn't really state why the officers where firing upon the man, so I'm not to sure if it was morally correct. I don't know how the officers can justify why they used so many shots though. I don't think they did it as a hate crime, however, because two officers were black. I don't believe police should be allowed to fire and kill and unarmed man. His fiancee is most likely devistated and his child will never grow up with a father. The police officers will have to bear knowing this for the rest of their lives.
I also don't understand what's really going on in the article. All it really says is that a black man was shot quite a few times by chiefly three NYPD officers. Being that he was unarmed, I don't see how they could have had any kind of probably cause for opening fire upon this man. Since a few of the officers were black, I don't see how racism could have been the main thing involved, although otherwise, I don't understand what the cause for shooting could have been. It is an especially upsetting story since it was indeed the day of this man's wedding.
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