LeeAnne Womack
M. Windham
English II
12 July 2017
One of Many: Mamou, Louisiana Shooting
On July 6, a shooting rang out in Mamou, Louisiana. An Evangeline Parish Sheriff deputy shot and killed 27 year old Dejuan Guillory. The responding deputy had been responding to an attempted burglary in the area where Guillory and his girlfriend, Dequince Brown, were. The shooting was first brought to my knowledge last week on Facebook, and I obtained more details about this officer involved shooting earlier this week. This shooting is one of many that has happened in the last year. Also, this shooting just adds fuel to the fire of police involved shootings that involve pulling the trigger many times on unarmed black males. The reactions I had to this event was a mix of being stunned, upset, and puzzled. I was in shock because it seems as if the shooting of unarmed black men in the United States has steadily been on the rise. The feelings of being stunned also stemmed from the circumstances…show more content… I see in the world we live in now where I could, someone else, or a group of people can make strides move towards improvement. Then, in the next moment, it is as if we got knocked down 10 more steps because something or someone has shut what we are trying to do down. We as people, tend to suffer more when we try to improve. It also has me indecisive because I see how the country’s system is run; it is wishy washy. One day, the system is all for solving a problem, and in the same breath, there is a bunch of ifs and buts, and in the end, there is no resolution. I really hope that society does find a way to achieve resolution among races. Just looking at history, there has been no achievement of that. As much as some people want to believe that all have been created and treated with equality, the truth is that it is not the
