Brenda Ramirez

Soc 122

M/W 530-645

Tortured, Killed & Driven to Suicide: Whistleblower Exposes Abuse of Mentally Ill in Florida Prison

MAY 11, 2016

For this new article, it is sad to know all the history in high authority had made for themselves or even their fellow people. To think you have the right to do such thing to people, I mean they are already in prison for a reason, why beat them especially if they are mentally ill. Based on a new exposé in The New Yorker magazine documents, it is shown and said how prison guards at the Dade Correctional Institution in Florida have made the lives of these mentally ill prisoners, making them their puppets, and of course no prisoner will fight back because why, maybe further punishment beyond from what they have been getting. They have beaten them, showering them with boiling hot water, and starving them. The political opportunity for this, their maybe no justice on the outside for them, but the people in the inside who witness it (more of higher authority who do not see anything right about it), to be treated like your nothing because your mentally ill, does not mean they do not know what's going on. And to know that the situation is particularly extreme in Florida, which spends less money per capita on mental health than any state with the exception of Idaho. Why spend less on them, shouldn't it be equal, they are all in them for a reason. The resource mobilization behind it, who knows what success the mentally ill people have, but the more power the higher authority has, who knows when there is going to be an end to this, and to even think it is right to do so. As for the framing, democracy now touched base with Eyal Press and one of his sources, George Mallinckrodt, a psychotherapist and whistleblower who lost his job after reporting on abuse of his patients in the Dade Correctional Institution's Transitional Care Unit in 2011. If that was a therapist looking out for a prisoner, I wonder what will come to one of the authority stepping in.

George Zimmerman to Auction Off Gun He Used to Kill Trayvon Martin

MAY 12, 2016

For this article, relates to the video we had a week ago based on Black lives matter, and the murder case of Trayvon Martin, it has been posted and made it to the headlines of the day that George Zimmerman is planning to auction the gun he used to kill Trayvon Martin. And let me remind the fact the gun that killed that young African American teenager who was unarmed and was causing no harm to anyone around him. As for the political opportunity, I would not think there is a right time and place to auction the gun you killed a young boy with, that is not right. Zimmerman is to list the firearm on GunBroker.com with a starting price of $5,000. Why would anyone want the gun that murdered a young boy?  As for the resource mobilization the day will start today, as I mentioned before the price has been set to start at $5k. For the framing, he uses no way to language as to why he would do such a thing, but is being done. But Zimmerman wrote in the listing where the auction is taking place, he will  donate a portion of the proceeds to "fight BLM [Black Lives Matter] violence against Law Enforcement officers."