During the summer, a lot of things happened that either made a big impact on, or definitely interested, a lot of people.
One of the things that happened was the arrest of teens who beat up and recorded the beating of a mentally disabled man in Newark, Delaware. The video shows the teens attacking the 26-year old mentally disabled man, and they continued to attack him after he tried to run away and begged for them to stop. The man was thrown to the ground, punched in the face, and kicked in the sides. At another location, the man was held up in the air and thrown to the ground. He was also pushed into a shallow creek. The teens that were assaulting him were 13 and 14 and were charged with offensive touching, assault on a vulnerable adult and third-degree conspiracy. #TheBullyProject started trending on Instagram and Twitter as awareness for this incident. This article is newsworthy because it shows how cruel kids can be and it also shows how you really need to be careful what you upload to the internet because it can get you into serious trouble.
Another thing that impacted a lot of people was the shooting of Michael Brown. Michael Brown was 18 years old and unarmed when he was walking down the street with a friend when an officer approached him and shot him to death. According to the police chief of St. Louis country, Brown physically assaulted the officer and reached for the officer's gun. During a candlelight vigil for Brown, more than a dozen businesses were vandalized and looted. This event is newsworthy because it is the backstory and reason for all the riots and violence in Ferguson.
Comedian Joan Rivers has died. She died of cardiac arrest/heart failure during one of her surgeries. After her cardiac arrest, she was rushed to a New York hospital where she eventually was placed in a medically induced coma. However, she never regained consciousness. Supposedly, the doctor who was performing the surgery during which Rivers had her cardiac arrest, had taken a selfie during the operation. This article is newsworthy because it tells you how Joan Rivers died, but it also lets you in on some information that most people probably don't know about- her surgeon taking a selfie during the operation.
Kim Kardashian became Kim Kardashian West. At the beginning of the summer, Kim and Kanye finally got married. They were married at Forte di Belvedere in Florence, Italy. As a wedding gift, Kanye got Kim a book of her selfies. It was 3"0 pages and titled "Selfish." This article is newsworthy because it fills people in on Kim and Kanye's wedding, as they're a popular celebrity couple, and most people probably don' know about Kanye's wedding gift of a book of selfies to Kim.
In late August, Louisville, Kentucky got crazy. A teenager started "Purge threats." Police believe that the idea of the threats came from the movie "the Purge" and its sequel. Police say they did not see a higher crime rate on the night of the rumored threat, but there were a high number of anonymous tips, most of which came to be unfounded. Many people were listening in to the police scanners on an app at the time of this event. This article is newsworthy because it gives information about how the movie started rumors in real life about purge threats.
