Hate Crime Outline Essay

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HATE CRIMES VS. CIVIL
DISOBEDIENCE
BY: ASHLEY CRAYCRAFT

I.

What is a hate crime?
A. a crime motivated by racial, sexual, or other prejudice, typically one involving violence.

1. 2015, Mississippi; Two women [
Brooke Richards and Adelia Graves
]
were riding in a truck that ran over James Craig Anderson in June
2011. Anderson died after being beaten and run over.Both Richards and Graves have acknowledged that they helped recruit people at a birthday party to take part in the venture that eventually led to
Anderson's death. Richards admitted that she encouraged Deryl Paul
Dedmon to assault Anderson when they arrived in a hotel parking lot, and then yelled a racial slur and encouraged Dedmon to run over
Anderson when Dedmon returned to the truck. they attacked Anderson because of his race. II.

What is Civil Disobedience?
A. the refusal to comply with certain laws.

1. Rosa Parks refused to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger, spurring the Montgomery boycott and other efforts to end segregation in
1955
2. Malala Yousafzai
, the Pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head by the Taliban, with her father Ziauddin, as she attends her first day of school
.

Today I will hold my books, my bag and I will learn. I will talk to my friends and I will talk to my teacher,” she said. “I want to learn how to bring change in this world.”
III.

Rebellion to Hate Crimes
A. HATE CRIME
: The shooting of Michael Brown occurred on August 9,
2014, in Ferguson, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. [
Brown
: 18­year­old black man] was fatally shot by Darren Wilson, 28, a white Ferguson police

officer.
Why did he shoot Michael?
1. he claimed michael was armed, but he wasn’t.

According to an autopsy conducted at the request of
Brown's family, the teenager was shot at least six times , including twice in the head and four times in his right arm. The autopsy, conducted by private pathologist Dr.Baden, also revealed that Brown could have sustained two additional re­entry wounds.
Why would you shoot someone so many times just to get them down from being armed?
Well news findings also found that Darren
Wilson was a member of the Klu Klux klan (The KKK), and being in possession of a confederate flag.
A. This brought rebellion in the town of Fergerson.
1. This brought protesters marching through the streets, arms raised, chanting, "Hands up, don’t shoot!"
,
and cops stood ground and began to try to break the protest.

This lead to cops feeling threatened by the protesters bringing them to try to vacate the area of the protesters.
a. Cops used Tear gas and started to throw it towards protesters.
i.

Outside the Ferguson, Mo., McDonald's, protester Cassandra
Roberts has milk poured into her eyes after being hit by tear gas.
The first headline, was marked as a violent act in Furgerson of a Mcdonalds being robbed ­ shortly after the