In Grits for Breakfast, a blog entry titled “Police officer "victim" shoots man standing at distance with hands at his side” talks about a horrific event that occurred on October 14^th 2013. To sum it up, a Dallas police officer shot a mentally ill man. The police officer shot him on a Monday afternoon outside of his home for no reason. According to a police report, Officer Cardan Spencer claimed that the reason why he opened fire was because Bobby Gerald Bennett walked toward him and his partner with a “knife raised in an aggressive manner.” Usually in a police report, the Officer’s word will be taken over any witnesses. But luckily there is actual video proof from a surveillance camera that they provided in this blog entry. In the video, it clearly shows that the police report was completely false and written before Officer Carden and his partner, were aware that the video was leaked. The author makes an argument that body cams on police officers would be a great idea, especially in this situation. I agree with him/her because if this became a law in the future, then there would be no way police can lie about their own actions if counted against them. The author states that “the episode also demonstrates the need for specialized police units to handle calls dealing with the mentally ill.” The author makes this statement using clear logic. The video has all the evidence needed, and that police officer obviously did not know how to deal with the mentally ill. I agree with every statement that the author is making. “it’s strikingly absurd that the arrest warrant affidavit lists Officer Spencer as the “victim” That’s certainly not how it looked from a camera’s-eye view.” The author’s information came from WFAA-TV (Channel 8) so the audience knows his/her credibility is legit. Speaking of the audience, the author is targeting all police as a warning. His/her audience is also the government, to show them that body cams are much needed to help prevent tragedies like this from ever happening again.

“Does a big-city population make Austin a big city?" (Opinion blog)

In the American-Statesman, Jody Seaborn title serves two purposes. One, it obviously gives his blog a title. And two, it asks the reader a question, “Does a big-city population make Austin a big city?" The argument here is that Jody Seaborn has been through just a couple of the cities on the most populous list. Such as, Washington, which she believes feels much bigger — much more like a city. He also compared this opinion to one of the many cities of California, San Francisco. Surprisingly, Austin has passed up these two cities on the most populous list in 2011. Seaborn had previously lived in Washington for three years, and lived in Austin for twenty-two years. His credibility is somewhat legit only because she did not live in Washington as long or as close to the amount of years he lived in Austin. But he has lived in Washington long enough to compare the two cities. Then again, the census that she mentioned was the 2011 most populous list. The only way to consider his credibility to be top notch is that if it was within this past year. Jody stated that Austin is largely suburban in character. Jody is not biased in this blog. He simply made that statement and said that it is one of the reasons why he loves Austin. It is also the main reason that she doesn’t think of Austin as cities like D.C. or San Francisco. As Austin continues to grow, so do the problems. Such as, the cost of housing, and traffic. Seaborn’s intended audience for this blog post are born and raised Austinites, or just people who lived in Austin itself. It’s also intended for people who are interested in populous cities as well as population growth in the United States. The argument, which is also the answer to his own question is yes. A big-city population does make Austin a big city. In the last two paragraphs of his opinion blog he constantly mentions that Austin will stay right outside of the tenth rank for at least a decade. He believes that after his estimated time (ten years), Austin will keep growing at a tremendous amount and soon pass up the tenth ranked state. In my opinion I agree with this allegation. After reading the article and comparing and contrasting numbers, Texas and its main cities are really growing fast and it is only a matter of time before Austin ends up in the top ten rank in the most populous cities in America.