Question 3: Resisting to Oppression was Effective

Question 3: Do you think that the way the resistors responded to oppression was effective? Why or why not?

I think the resisting was not effective to the response of the oppression in Freddie Gray’s death because it caused a lot of violence and destruction in the city of Baltimore. In “Nonviolence as Compliance” , Parsley says, “Rioting broke out on Monday in Baltimore an angry response to the death of Freddie Gray a death my native city seems powerless to explain Gray did not die mysteriously in some back alley and yet the mayor of that city and the Commissioner of that city police still have no idea what happened” . This means that the people in Baltimore responded in a violent protest and the government seem like they did not have anything to do with the killing of Freddie Gray. This is relevant because the angry protestors were causing trouble in the city while the government did nothing. The protestors and the cities government could have resulted in having a peaceful riot