Murder

1. Murder is a type of criminal homicide where that killer intended on killing the victim and may have even planned it out beforehand. Homicide is a killing that just happens, it can be classified under self defense, there is not pre-meditation to it.

Murder has four categories: 1) First Degree murder 2) Second Degree murder 3) Third Degree or in other cases voluntary manslaughter 4) Involuntary Manslaughter

Homicide has a couple categories including criminal, justifiable, or excusable. Criminal is where the crime is severe and so are the consequences. Justifiable and excusable is where someone was using self defense or has a mental illness and didn't understand what they were doing.

2. A 14 year old boy was charged with murder when they found his half-sister dead. He had tied her up by the neck with a rope that was used for a tire swing in the past so it wasn't tied like a noose but in a figure 8 pattern. The authorities are saying that this was no accident because of the hanging of the girl and so the boy has been charged with murder in juvenile court and he has to wait on his court appearance to see if he will be tried as an adult. The victim is portrayed as an innocent 9 year old little girl and the victim is portrayed as someone who knew what he was doing and that he meant to kill her. The media portrayed the incident as a little gruesome I would say because they talk about how the little girl's feet were actually touching the ground and how they children were playing in the yard before the terrible act happened.

3. One example of a movie with murder in it is American History X. This movie talks a lot about gang violence and hate crimes, but in the end, there are a couple murders that take place. They are murders because the characters intended on killing them. Also, in one of the murders, they boy had planned out to kill the other teenager because he brought a gun to school and shot him in the bathroom and he had been waiting in there for him, too.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120586/

Another movie example is Homicide: The Movie. The weird thing about this movie is that I am pretty sure the "homicide" is a murder. The reason is because the "homicide" happens when the leading candidate for Mayor walks up to the podium to do a speech, he is shot. Now, this type of shooting doesn't happen randomly, it is something that is thought about for a while. Someone has to think about all the obstacles to get  through, where the person is going to stand, the type of security there will be, etc to be able to execute this thing. So in my mind, this should be renamed to Murder: The Movie.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0226771/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl

Mob Violence

1. Mob violence is where a crowd is selective in their choice of a victim and target. Also, a mob can be seen as a crowd that can be out of control and is waiting for a trigger to set them off. But they are also making a rational attempt to prevent or accomplish some type of social change. This type of group violence exists because they are trying to get a point across to people and make their point heard. One example of mob violence is lynching, which is an extralegal execution by a mob. Another example is a riot which includes three or more people and they use violence or force because of a reaction to a trigger and an example of one can be the Boston Massacre.

2. Two families fighting in Perry County Alabama caused a full scale riot outside a small-town city hall. There was 150 people from the families screaming at each other and throwing tire irons and baseball bats at one another. Supposedly, the two families have been fighting for a couple years and the riot began with a fight at the high school earlier in the day after a window was shot out of a home the night before. During the initial fight at the high school, two people were arrested and then relatives of the people arrested followed them to town hall and that is when everything erupted. Once the riot settled down, six more people were arrested and the police had to call for backup from surrounding cities to help control the crowd. According to police, the families are pointing fingers at each other not placing the blame on just one person or group. It almost sounds like the police are the victims from the media standpoint since a couple of them were injured and even the town since a college told people to stay out of downtown for 24 hours to keep them safe. I feel like the societal conditions were pretty normal since it is such a small town and this family just made the town erupt with violence out of no where.

3. This is the ad that the state department spent $70,000 on to try and calm the riots in Pakistan over the anti-Islam film made in the US. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are seen in the ad saying that they don't condone this video and that the American Government had nothing to do with it.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/09/20/state-department-spending-70g-on-pakistan-ads-denouncing-anti-islam-film/

This is a video from the Sherrif of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin and he is trying to get a PSA across about protecting yourself. He talks about using self-defense because you can't always rely on the police since they are being laid off so much lately. He also talks about people taking a firearm safety course which is causing all types of problems. There are people out in the community who are saying he is making people become vigilantes since he is telling them to do it themselves (taking the law into their own hands) and that they are now "partners."

http://hotair.com/archives/2013/01/26/video-milwaukee-country-sheriffs-psa-on-self-protection/