Monday 13 March 2017

Weekly News.

'GET THE F*** BACK!' 

Fury as California cop is caught on camera brutally beating unarmed suspect and threatening witnesses with his gun.

This weekly news is about an incident occurred on Friday afternoon in Vallejo, California, at a petrol station after police responded to a 911 call reporting a man acting “crazy”. Witnesses claimed the first officer chased the unarmed suspect for several minutes until he gave up and sat in the road, KPIX reports. The heavily tattooed officer then allegedly shoved the man to the ground before attempting to put him in handcuffs, witnesses claim. Video then shows the cop beating the man on the ground as the suspect repeatedly screams “I am God, I am God!”. Someone off camera can also be heard yelling “police brutality” before the officer pulls out his gun and tells them to “get the f*** back.” A witness, told KPIX: “The kid surrendered. The cop, on the other hand, came up right behind him and he was tired too.

The Sun portrayed this article in favour of the police authorities, implying that there was a reason for the way in which the police officer acted and that he is innocent until proven guilty. They authorities even had the audacity to put the man in prison for resisting arrest and is awaiting trial. This story doesn't surprise me as police officers has be abusing their power for a very long time now although the news papers has stopped to report them recently.
This shows the representation of issues, the issue of police officers being aggressive to black civilians, as well as the representation of ethnicity, the police officer being white and the man being arrested black.

2 comments:

  1. This an interesting choice of story to use and it is very descriptive in terms of the representations and the opinions that you have used. One way that may possibly improve this would be to refer to the audiences and maybe use a comparison to something else.

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  2. Include more in your conclusion and further explain the representations

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