Currently in Baltimore chaos is occurring. The riots have taken a toll on everyone in the country. Everything has been dangerous and scary in Baltimore. Since the riots have started people have been disgracing the police for killing African Americans. This relates to the first amendment and relates to petitioning for government grievances for cops abusing their power. Everything relates to what happened in Ferguson Missouri last year in the summer. Everyone is tired of the police abusing their power and they have decided to use their first amendment right to try to abolish this system and make a new one if possible. The new protests have sparked over Freddie Gray who died in the hands of a police officer. This man was beaten while taken into custody and suffered from a coma and later died one week later in the hospital. The events occurred all over the country making it a national event and tragedy. The first amendment plays a big part in this because the people are free to riot and overthrow if necessary. The people were ready to start again.The people are going against everything that the police want and are also making it to where they will settle for nothing less. The rioters are out past curfew trying to settle on this brutal unfair trial between the government and them. The amount of determination they have is relentless for change. Those people who are rioting on the streets are trying to avenge Grays death in order for this to stop happening, racial shootings occur a lot in the U.S and they have killed more people in one month than England has in the past 100 years. The first amendment was made first to allow the people to rule encase the government gets out of hand. Freedom is good within these limits and is very useful to work with when in certain situations. The whole thing is completely within reason because we can’t just hide in the corner and be poked by the police if they are being too harsh and violent. We can exercise what the founding fathers have made clear to do and this makes it to where we can be the future without a forcible negotiation of what happens. I hope the entire police fleet gets renewed with a better more sophisticated and refined version of what it is. But in the mean time the amendments are still being put to great use. The right for guns also plays a part because both the officers and rioters had guns and used them. The whole scenario is just the same with all these other riots in the country in the past. The gun laws play apart in this because a lot of people want to ban guns in America for public use.
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