Category: Protest

  • The Hardhat Riot: The Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution

    The Hardhat Riot by Kuhn entailed an account of the 1970 dispute between citizens dissenting against the unending war between Southeast Asia and New York City construction workers. Four days after the Kent State tragedy, violence erupted on May 8, 1970. Kuhn, a profound writer for C.B.S. news, RealClearPolitics, and Politico, explained how the tension…

  • Riots in Detroit and Los Angeles

    Causes and Motives of the Detroit Rioters During the Second World War, Detroit was the center of the American automobile industry and was considered a developing and prosperous city. However, the problem that virtually all the major cities of the United States of that time faced was racial inequality and intolerance (Santoro and Broidy 335).…

  • The Flawed Emergency Response to the 1992 Los Angeles Riots

    Table of Contents Introduction Analysis of Leadership Analysis of Ethics Recommendations References Introduction The organization initially tasked with providing emergency response to the 1992 riots in Los Angeles was the California National Guard. Previously, the service has received consistent training and used up to 13,000 troops to target specific riots. Nevertheless, over the decades, there…

  • The Case of the 1992 Los Angeles Riots

    Introduction The most effective leadership style for superiors at criminal justice organizations to employ is the autocratic leadership style. This is a leadership style where all the decision of the organization solely depends on an individual, which is necessary during a crisis or emergency (Woodard, 2017). In the case of the 1992 Los Angeles Riots,…

  • Critical Assessment of Los Angeles Riots 1992 Case

    In this assignment, the critical assessment of the Los Angeles rioting case in 1992 will be estimated from the perspective of discretion. The latter can be defined as the right to make choices freely and personally. In any sphere of life, people have to decide which side they are taking and what consequences this selection…

  • The National Guard in Riot Control Situations

    The issue of the deployment of the National Guard personnel is ambiguous and multilayered. Legally, local jurisdictions can resort to the state National Guard for assistance when community resources are depleted, but the actual societal benefit of such employment is questionable. The most revealing illustration of the National Guards unreliability happened in Kent State in…

  • The Anti-Black Race Riot as a Civil Rights Issue

    In the given scenario about the anti-black race riot, I selected the role of a member of the NAACP. My further discussion will be from that persons point of view. I am a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). I attended a local meeting on May 10, 1919, when…

  • Protests Theatre Role in Apartheid South Africa

    Introduction It has often been argued that theatre is political in nature because it is a part of all human activities, which are political in nature (Schumann, 2008). Apart from entertaining the society, theatres perform significant roles in any society. For instance, they contribute to the processes of educating, informing, creating awareness and addressing the…

  • Protests Theatre Role in Apartheid South Africa

    Introduction It has often been argued that theatre is political in nature because it is a part of all human activities, which are political in nature (Schumann, 2008). Apart from entertaining the society, theatres perform significant roles in any society. For instance, they contribute to the processes of educating, informing, creating awareness and addressing the…

  • Resistance Protests Against the South African Apartheid

    Modern society respects diversity, and globalization the world experiences now teaches humanity about the equity and value of any individual regardless of the differences. However, less than a century ago, the opposite historical events took place, and such characteristics as a race could determine a persons life. Apartheid, the racial segregation regime lasted in South…