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The use of an online news article named Think Progressive and the actual police report were used to compare both sides of the Michael Brown’s death case due to shooting by police officer Darren Wilson. The comparison is to highlight how different the story is pictured from the mass media to the law enforcement report. The case occurred in Ferguson, Missouri on August 9, 2014.
After reading both sources of information the differences vary in several ways the story telling is done. A difference from the actual police report and the online article is the description of why the police approached Brown to begin with. The online article only states that the police just asked Mr. Brown to get in the car with no reason while the police report clarifies
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By using an online news article named San Antonio Current and the actual police report were used to compare both sides of Gilbert Flores death caused by the shooting of two deputies named Greg Vasquez and Roberto Sanchez and comparing the differences between the story of the mass media and the police force report. Some of the similarities both sides had were that police officers were call to Mr. Flores residence due to a disturbance call. The second resemblance was that Mr. Flores engaged the police officers in the front yard of his residence and he surrender by placing his hands up and placing them behind his head. The only difference from the mass media and the police report was that the police officers tried to use the teaser to be able to control Mr. Flores to be able to made the arrest, but the teaser did not make contact with him that when the police officers had to use deadly force due to Mr. Flores tried to assault them. But in video that was recorded by a near bystander clearly show that he never attacked the officers in any way that the officer may felt in danger. When Mr. Flores put his hands up in the air at that moment the immediate danger is gone and the police officer should have never shot Mr. Flores and killing him. These is one of the many cases that happen in our country that makes society to think if our police officer are well trained to be able to make split seconds decisions of using deadly force or another technique learned in their training

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