Sentences with phrase «city police officer shot»

Senator Skelos, the prosecutors charged, arranged to meet Long Island politicians at the wake of Wenjian Liu, a New York City police officer shot dead in December, to press for payments to the company employing his son.

New York City police officers shot and killed a man during the morning rush hour in Midtown Manhattan after he refused their orders to drop a knife and then lunged at them.

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Two Dallas police officers and a civilian were shot on Tuesday at a Home Depot store in the Texas city.»

A man suspected of fatally shooting an off - duty police officer in a small Kentucky city was killed by law enforcement officials in Tennessee, authorities said Friday.

Mayor Mike Rawlings announced that Dallas Police Officer Rogelio Santander died after being shot in the head at a Home Depot on the city's northeast side Tuesday afternoon.

Yesterday afternoon in New York City, police officers shot and killed a black man after he pointed a metal pipe at the officers and they confused it for a gun,...

The shootings happened earlier this morning as the officers sat in separate patrol cars around 1 a.m. in the closely situated Iowa cities of Des Moines and Urbandale when Urbandale police were called to reports of gunfire that turned out to be one of their fellow officers.

The comments come as lawmakers will be mulling potential changes to the state's criminal justice system in the wake of the Eric Garner decision as well as the shooting deaths of two New York City police officers.

The Queens man who attacked four New York City police officers with a hatchet last month before he was shot dead highlighted the «new emerging threat» that law enforcement needs to combat world - wide, NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton said.

Two weeks after New York Police Department officers fatally shot a mentally disturbed man they thought was armed with a gun, de Blasio launched a task force aimed at improving city responses to emergencies involving the mentally ill.

A New York judge has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to block the parole of Bell, an ex-radical who fatally shot two New York City police officers in 1971.

The family of Akai Gurley, the unarmed man shot and killed in a Brooklyn housing - project stairwell by a police officer last year, has filed a wrongful - death lawsuit against New York City.

The case, along with a police shooting in Missouri of teenager Michael Brown that led to no charges of a local police officer there, led to a series of protests in cities around the country and a debate over police tactics as well as calls to reform the criminal justice system.

A jury earlier this year convicted New York City Police Officer Peter Liang in the shooting death of Akai Gurley, a conviction that was condemned by some members of the city's Asian communCity Police Officer Peter Liang in the shooting death of Akai Gurley, a conviction that was condemned by some members of the city's Asian communcity's Asian community.

On what would have been Sean Bell's 27th birthday, a judge ruled his family's civil lawsuit against the city and the five police officers who shot and killed him can go to trial.

Upon further inquiry from reporters, Constance Malcolm — the mother of Ramarley Graham, who was shot by a New York City police officer in 2012 — said that Cuomo told the group if the Legislature didn't pass his proposal for an independent monitor by the end of session, he would then issue the executive order.

Proposed changes to the provision also include exempting Hollywood filmmakers shooting on location in New York, as well as New York City police officers, who had complained that they, too, would be restricted by the law.

Despite that, the city has been rocked by a series of different shootings over the past couple of weeks, including the most recent, where a police officer drew fire, and a police union spokesperson said that many city residents feel less safe than ever.

Two Troy police officers are on the mend at Albany Medical Center following a shootout late Saturday night, the first time officers in the city have been shot in the line of duty in 40 years.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office was granted the authority on Monday to investigate the shooting death of Delrawn Small, who was shot to death on July 4 by an off - duty New York City police officer in Brooklyn.

In a city troubled by allegations of police misuse of force, a Chicago police officer shot and killed a male college student...

Authorities have identified the Syracuse police officer who was involved in a shooting while responding to a call on the city's Near West Side.

Senate Republicans starting this month will hold a series of hearings on the issue, with Majority Leader Dean Skelos pledging to review whether elected officials helped create a negative atmosphere that ultimately played a role in the recent shooting deaths of two New York City police officers.

After the fourth New York City police officer in 11 months was shot and killed last week, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said «there's no doubt that we have a violence problem against police officers,» and gave a tepid response to a proposal by Mayor Bill de Blasio.

The shooting death of a New York City police officer is fueling concerns of increased violence at an East Harlem housing project.

Tyron Howard, the man arrested in the fatal shooting of Randolph Holder, a New York City police officer, received a series of breaks in nearly two decades of frequent arrests and convictions.

Cuomo also interjected himself into the rift between de Blasio and the city's police unions following the shooting deaths of two police officers against the mayor's wishes.

The city has settled to pay $ 700,000 to a mentally disturbed Soundview man who was shot by police officers during an altercation in 2005.

He pointed to that and the shootings of Rochester police officer Anthony DiPonzio and, more recently, New York City police officer Kevin Brennan as grim reminders of the tragic consequences that result from moving troubled youth into the community without adequate resources and supervision.

Standing with his partner, Sandra Lee, at his side, Mr. Cuomo made the remarks outside a funeral home in Brooklyn where a wake was being held for New York City police Officer Wenjian Liu, who along with a fellow police officer was fatally shot on DOfficer Wenjian Liu, who along with a fellow police officer was fatally shot on Dofficer was fatally shot on Dec. 20.

A man suspected of robbing people at gunpoint in Brooklyn was fatally shot today by New York City police officers after exchanging gunfire with them, the authorities said.

More than two years after the New York City police officer Brian Moore was fatally shot while on patrol in Queens, his fellow officers relived that night, as testimony began yesterday in the trial of the man prosecutors say killed him with two bullets to the head from a silver revolver.

A man using a meat cleaver to try to remove a parking boot from the wheel of his car was shot by New York City police near Penn Station after he slashed an officer on the face, authorities said.

An officer responding to a 9:22 a.m. call to check the welfare of a man spotted in the city's Riverside Cemetery saw Nojay shoot himself, Rochester Police investigator Frank Camp said in a news conference.

Kenneth Thompson, the Brooklyn district attorney, solemnly unveiled a six - count indictment this afternoon against the NYPD officer who shot and killed Akai Gurley, striving to show the public his office was not pressured by the police protests that have roiled the city and nation over the last year.

The union pointed to the murder of Buffalo - area direct care worker Renee Greco by a youth who had been inappropriately released by the state into community care as well as the shootings of Rochester and New York City police officers Anthony DiPonzio and Kevin Brennan as grim reminders of the tragic consequences that result from moving troubled youth into the community without adequate resources and supervision.

Former City Councilman Charles Barron, who used to represent the neighborhood, faulted the rookie officer for the shooting and said it echoed fatal police shootings on Staten Island and in Ferguson, Mo..

The AG's report, which includes a vendor - prepared forensic analysis, found that prosecutors «can not disprove» that Troy police officer Randall French's fatal shooting of Edson Thevenin — who fled a DUI stop and crashed his car into a concrete barrier near the Collar City Bridge, where the killing occurred — was justified.

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo directed that flags on all State government buildings be flown at half - staff in memory of New York City Police Officer Miosotis Familia, who was died earlier today after being shot in the line of duty.

The city's police union is calling on Governor Kasich to suspend the state's open carry weapons law for the convention, in light of the Baton Rouge shootings Sunday that left three police officers dead.

In the aftermath of the shooting of Rochester Police Officer Daryl Pierson, Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren joins us to talk about the next steps for the city.

In August of last year, shortly after NYPD officers shot to death an emotionally disturbed man in his apartment, City Council Member Jumaane Williams led an effort calling on Mayor Bill de Blasio to set up a task force to conduct a wholesale review of the police department's protocols in dealing with «emotionally disturbed persons,» or EDPs.

The P.B.A., frustrated by a lack of progress on labor talks and a perceived lack of support from City Hall when protests broke out following a grand jury's decision not to indict any police officers for the death of Eric Garner, lashed out at the mayor in December after two officers were shot and killed while sitting in their patrol car.

After praising the NYPD for maintaining order during New York City - based protests following the news that a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri, did not indict a white police officer in the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager, de Blasio said there is «a great sensitivity» to ensuring emergency vehicles are not blocked during marches.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Authorities have identified the Syracuse police officer who was involved in a shooting while responding to a call on the city's Near West Side.

Ferguson police were widely criticized for their response following the death of Brown, who was shot by a city police officer, Darren Wilson, on Aug. 9.

The findings, published Sept. 16 in the American Journal of Sociology, show that two fatal shootings of police officers by black suspects in New York City increased the use of police force against blacks substantially in the days after the shootings, while the use of force against whites and Hispanics remained unchanged.

Mr. Perry, a black student from Harlem who attended Phillips Exeter Academy under the abc program, was shot to death by an undercover New York City police officer he allegedly was trying to rob, just 10 days after his graduation from the respected New Hampshire preparatory school.

LEESBURG — The city police department has started taking applications for the position of animal control officer, a job left vacant July 23 when Doug Berwick resigned after shooting the dog of an 11 - year - old disabled boy.

She was present at the recent City Council meeting in April when Jefferson officials acknowledged to the public that police officers had been fatally shooting cats.