My first blog attempt - don't laugh. Unless it's funny, then please, please laugh! |
http://www.my40.tv/shared/news/top-stories/stories/wmya_domestic-response-ends-f... This is the hardest prompt for me so far. I have tried 3 times to write about it, and now I'm trying again, a day late. The story I chose, about a domestic violence call that ended in a man being shot by the police who responded to the 911 call, is hard to write about. I am having a hard time getting an angle on it. It is not funny to me, I have no clever things to say about it, I don't feel inspired to fictionalize it, and I most definitively do not want to write an opinion piece about it. I don't know the facts, so clearly I can't comment on whether it was necessary to kill the alleged abuser, or whether it was actually domestic violence or a fight that got out of hand. I think I am mostly depressed. This kind of news story gets so little attention, the news was news because the officer shot and killed a man on a call, not because of the domestic violence itself. If I were to look up reported cases of domestic violence in my area, or deaths from domestic violence... I would find very little data. ( I just looked) But our wonderful local shelter has statistics about number of women and children helped by year. I think it floors me that we are still living in a society where violence committed against women and children exists. I do not know how to change it, I just know that abuse is very much more prevalent than we probably think. I have a friend who is dating a new person, and he found out that she'd been abused as a child. It occurred to me that it is very far from unusual. At least half of the women I know have a history of childhood sexual abuse, or of sexual violence later. What are we putting out there as a society that allows this to be happening? Anyway. Not my favorite topic. I should have gone with "Local Olympic Athlete Breaks Leg." |