"Are Police becoming more Violent?" By Christian Jimenez

Police Brutality is a problem because people are getting hurt or killed by policemen. Once someone gets killed by a policemen other people are going to start a protest about what had happened. The people are going to be on the news, they are going to tell the news what they saw, what happened, and why the people are protesting. There is going to be a lot of different articles and sources about police brutality. That is why police brutality police brutality is a problem.
    A police brutality happened in Chicago on a Saturday before presidential election. In the article it states that, "Donald J. Trump had cast during his campaign as the nightmare of urban America, a Chicago police officer killed a 25-year-old black man (The New York Times)." This quote shows that police brutality could happen anytime. Another quote from the article is, "The next day about 20 protesters with the group Black Lives Matter Chicago showed up at the scene of the shooting, in the far southwest neighborhood of Mount Greenwood (The New York Times)." This quote shows that protesters showed up to the place where the man was killed, and they started protesting about him and to the policeman who killed him. In a CNN interview Father Michael Pfleger said, “Whether it's a racist cop, whether a vigilante, whether black on black crime murder is wrong.” This quote means that it doesn’t matter what type of crime it is murdering people is wrong.
Another incident happened on June 15 at Portillo’s in River North. Khaled Shaar which happened to be an off duty cop hit and punched Terrence Clarke on the day that the Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup in 2015. In the article it states that, “Clarke had become combative, according to police report, after Shaar asked him and his family to leave because it was closing time, and Clarke threw out cheese at him (Chicagoist).” This quote means that the police officer asked him to leave and he just threw his food at him and that’s when the off duty cop arrested him. Another quote from the article is,“He also disputed the police narrative of what happened: According to the lawsuit, Clarke told Shaar that his family would leave the restaurant once they finished their meals, and Shaar was angry that Clarke would not get up immediately, WGN reports. According to the police department, Shaar is being investigated and is not on street duty (Chicagoist).” This quote shows Clarke side of the story and what had happened during he got arrested at Portillo’s. All in all police brutality is wrong people shouldn't be getting killed or hurt by policemen it's terrible to see things that had happen on the news about police brutality.

Article of the Week Impressions Blog

Today in ELA class I learned many things one of was that a school made up a mock election. The students got to vote on who they wanted the president to be. The school was in New York city more than 380,000 students voted for the next president of the United States. Hillary Clinton won with 57 percent of the vote, while Donald Trump took 32 percent on the vote in the polls. Some of the students who voted came from California, Illinois, Texas, and New Jersey. Eight states were red, but they turned blue meaning that those eight stayed voted for Donald Trump experts predict that this will happen in the real election. After the entire school voted the kids played their part as pollsters and analyzed the school results.
Another thing that I found important during the gallery walk was Trump elected president in surprise win. Trump wants to repeal Obamacare, he also wants to unagree an agreement they had with Iran because of terrorism because he wants to keep everyone safe. Another thing that happened was Hilary won popular vote, but she lost the presidency. Those are things that I learned during ELA class today.

Police Brutality

     Police Brutality is a problem because people are getting hurt or killed by policemen. Once someone get's killed by a policemen other people are going to start a protest about what had happend. The people are going to be on the news and they are going to tell the news what they saw and what happened. And why the people are protesting there is going to be a lot of different articles and sources about police brutality. That is why police brutality police brutality is a problem.

     A police brutality happened in Chicago on a Saturday before presidential election. In the article it states that, "Donald J. Trump had cast during his campaign as the nightmare of urban America, a Chicago police officer killed a 25-year-old black man (The New York Times)." This quote shows that police brutality could happen anytime. Another quote from the article is, "The next day about 20 protesters with the group Black Lives Matter Chicago showed up at the scene of the shooting, in the far southwest neighborhood of Mount Greenwood (The New York Times)." This quote shows that protesters showed up to the place where the man was killed. And they started protesting about him and to the police man who killed him.

Nonfiction Responses

     The nonfiction book that I am currently reading is called Leonardo da Vinci by Stuart A. Kallen and P.M. Boekhoff.  This book is about where Leonardo grew up, what he has created, and his history
Leonardo was born on April 15, 1452 in a home on the slopes of Monte Albanoa above the village of Vinci. Leonardo was the only child and he lived in his grandparents and their adult children. His mother Caterina married a man named Antonio Achattabrigha and his father Ser Piero married a woman named Albiera di Giovanni Amadori a year later Leonardo was born.
     An important thing I found interesting was, "For Leonardo was a legend in his own lifetime, and his paintings such as Mona Lisa and the Last Supper have secured his reputation as one of the worlds greatest artist in the nearly five centuries since his death in 1519." This passage from the book is interesting to me because I just thought that Leonardo painted the Mona Lisa, but he also did the last supper. I do agree that he is one of the worlds greatest artist. That is what I found interesting in that passage from the book.
     Some things that I learned so far in the book. Was that Leonardo lived with his grandparents I could relate to him because my grandma lives with me. Another thing that I found interesting was the his parents married different people his mother married a different man and his father married and a different woman a year after he was born. Those are just some things that I learned so far in the book I can't wait to learn more about Leonardo da Vinci.

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