Blog One

[The article by Charles M. Blow called “Library Visit, Then Held at Gunpoint” I feel has a better delivery statement than David Brooks because it talks about Charles receiving a call from his son that no parent would ever want or could ever imagine receiving, which involved his son being held at gunpoint by the Yale campus police officer who had mistaken his identity. My first example that makes this thesis so successful is because he gives a brief encounter of the incident, it’s not every day that a situation like this happen. Reading the thesis statement, it instantly caught my attention with it being so detailed and to think how often this really does happen, or even the possibility of this happening. My second example is that he gives a very good point on why the police officer had to automatically draw his gun out, and immediately detain him; Instead of questioning his son of his identity. “What if my son had panicked under stress, having never had a gun pointed at him before, and made what the officer considered a “suspicious” movement? Triggers cannot be un-pulled.  Bullets cannot be called back.” I believe there are plenty of different ways the officer could have approached this situation other than pulling a gun right away like asking for the ID right away or even seeing if the young man would stop before believing pulling a gun is necessary. My third example that makes this article more successful is because the dean of Yale university and the chief of police on the campus apologized to Charles M. Blow and his son for wrongfully identifying his son. They have promised to do an internal investigation. By them realizing their mistake during this course of action it gives them a better approach towards another similar situation.]