NEWS #1

MINNEAPOLIS MAN SHOT DEAD BY POLICE "NOT HANDCUFFED"

Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34870718 

SUMMARY:

A 24 year old man called Jamar Clark has been shot by Minneapolis police this November. There had been many demonstrations against this fact because some testimonies said that the police shot and then handcuffed him. The man died a day later, and a lot of protests broke out then.

Demonstrations continued and, as a big number of shootings of black people had appeared, there had been a lot of protests nationwide about the excessive force against African Americans.

OPINION:

This is such an impressing item to talk about, because it seems that the Minneapolis police had forced the situation and killed a man with no fault. They’ve said he was the suspect in an assault case and was interfering with people working on that case, but this isn’t a relevant excuse to shoot a man.

Police sometimes seem to be racist in that type of context, because if a white man had been suspect and supposedly interfering in the case they wouldn’t have shot him. 

VOCABULARY: handcuffed, assault and sparked.