Sentences with phrase «not police brutality»

(Those troubled by Sam Rockwell's character's arc in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri will be relieved to note that Mike got fired for being drunk on the job, not police brutality.)

Rare as these deaths are, more often than not police brutality is blamed and officers are taken to court, but researchers now think that such events are the result of a rare disorder called «excited delirium».

Not exact matches

«It's not a silver bullet to fix police brutality — video of one event doesn't change something,» says Todd Morris, CEO and founder of BrickHouse Security, which sells body cameras, GPS trackers, and surveillance gear to police.

God was not caught off guard by police brutality,» my pastor recently preached.

But apparently his way of nonviolent love was not at all incompatible with protesting police brutality or engaging in civil disobedience in a nonviolent fashion.

This selective «colorblindness» is a mighty convenient approach to race in America for white people, for it allows us to paper over America's troubled (and decidedly anti-Christian) history, to discount racism as a thing of the past for which we are no longer responsible, and to ignore persistent racial injustices like mass incarceration, police brutality, voting rights issues, white flight, and economic inequality, all while consistently benefiting from an oppressive system we claim we can not even see.

The personal reflections of multi-millionaire and media mogul Tyler Perry and Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. demonstrate that even money, education, and a realized American Dream did not keep them safe from racial profiling and police brutality.

@JohnQuest — with the prevelance of cellphone cameras and quick posting to sites like youtube these days and all the police brutality and other unlawful activity videos going up on a daily basis involving police, I would be surprised if the percentage of police force that are corrupt, underqualified, discriminatory and just plain stupid is not only a lot higher than 5.0 % but also extends into the higher - ups of the system that are harder to pin - point.

The founders of Black Lives Matter refute these 11 stated misconceptions about their movement; they ignore Black on Black crime, they're leaderless, they have no agenda, they're a one - issue movement (Police brutality), they don't respect their elders, they reject the Black Church, they don't care about Queer / Trans lives, they hate White people, they hate Police officers, politically speaking their focus should be the vote, and they're not actually a movement.

And I do it every time my first response to a report about police brutality or a story about racial prejudice is, well it couldn't be THAT bad.

Along with that, the NFL sounds like it's going to offer some kind of compromise, some tacit acknowledgement of the social issues — league owners and Roger Goodell noticeably don't directly refer to police brutality or racial inequality — either with a window of time and / or a financial commitment to various causes.

That was the Kaepernick movement's greatest strength, Cullars - Doty says: The ability to provoke a dialogue about police brutality that isn't centered on the death of yet another young person color, even if, as she says, «the conversation has been tainted with lies.»

«I was kind of pointing out the hypocrisy of the fact that if the goal is and the message is that of police brutality, which they've stated, that that doesn't seem very appropriate to protest the American flag.

Many people wondered why Kaepernick, who in the 2016 NFL season began to kneel for the national anthem in protest of social injustice and police brutality, had since not continued to strongly voice his opinions.

Now, removed from Kaepernick, who is on the outside looking in, with his stance distorted by arguments cowardly trying to look away from the original issue — claiming he kneeled against things that he didn't — and with the spotlight pointed at Trump rather than police brutality, the NFL has decided to protest without really protesting anything.

Also, it's funny you talk about people seeing «my side» when you and the rest of your ilk can't even answer a simple question of how Colin should've protested against police brutality instead of how he actually went about it.

But the optics of owners essentially describing themselves as prison wardens aren't great, particularly because police brutality and systematic oppression are at the heart of the player protests.

I believe that if it had not happened there, folks who don't fundamentally understand the history of racial oppression and police brutality in this country would have been more inclined to withhold judgment.

Zellnor provided over 600 hours of pro bono service to immigrants seeking asylum, victims of police brutality and illegal stop - and - frisks, special education students not receiving services from the Department of Education, and victims of domestic violence.

Ari Paul argues that police unions deserve not solidarity from other city unions, but rather, healthy antagonism — public sector workers like teachers should take a forceful stance against police brutality.

«If you can't trust me and my 61 other colleagues in the state to handle police brutality cases, then take them all from us,» Mr. Thompson told radio host Brian Lehrer on WNYC this morning.

Yes I am a family member of a victim of injustice, and if questionable police shootings, misconduct, and brutality were not investigated fully and fairly on a local level by Westchester County's top law enforcement officer why should the people of Westchester County or New York State believe that anything different will take place on an appellate level?

The poll found that by a 58 percent to 33 percent margin, New Yorkers would back giving Schneiderman the power of special prosecutor to probe other instances of police brutality after a grand jury chose to not indict a New York police officer in the chokehold death of Eric Garner.

Police precincts across NYC are reportedly calling off their planned annual festivities because they can't afford to take officers off the street while protests against police brutality continue to crop up almost niPolice precincts across NYC are reportedly calling off their planned annual festivities because they can't afford to take officers off the street while protests against police brutality continue to crop up almost nipolice brutality continue to crop up almost nightly.

«I also think that when President Trump was here on Long Island and joked about police brutality, that is not a subject that you joke about.

DO N'T let your self be caught alone with no witnesses in case of any brutality or false arrests which the watervliet police are known for.

When Eric Garner, a black Staten Island man, died in July after police placed him in a chokehold, Ms. James — now the highest - ranked African - American elected official in the city — did not lead the charge of critics decrying the alleged police brutality.

For their part, activists against police abuse and brutality say the need for real reform can not be discounted.

«For instance, we weren't talking about police brutality in these reports a few decades ago.»

But if you're looking for tactful visual responses to the Black Lives Matter movement and the effects of police brutality, this isn't it.

The first is there is no question that Three Billboards, even though told through the eyes of someone who isn't American, sizzles with what we're going through in terms of our anger at Trump, anger at how America has turned out, anger at inaction against police brutality, anger at the status quo.

Although Black Star is not intended as a direct response to the current social climates in the UK and US, Clark says that a number of the films in the programme speak directly to what's happening today: «John Singleton's seminal Boyz n the Hood is a prime example: it's impossible to watch the film and not see very clear connections to contemporary issues of police brutality and gentrification.

«Detroit» examines the 1967 riots that nearly destroyed a city, but the specific focus here is police brutality at a local area hotel that isn't too far from today's headlines.

We see this in the way people talk about police brutality («Why didn't they comply?»)

Whatever genius thought to pair S. Craig Zahler (Bone Tomahawk, Brawl in Cell Block 99) with Mel Gibson deserves a goddamn metal of honor and with a name as suggestive as Dragged Across Concrete (which is sure to conjure a certain image for anyone who's had the pleasure of watching Brawl in Cell Block 99), this police brutality thriller sounds like Zahler won't be giving up the graphic violence any time soon.

It's not a perfect film by any stretch, and one area where I certainly agree with detractors is how problems, particularly the treatment of rape victims and police brutality against people of color, are treated in the abstract.

In the year after Ava DuVernay's «13th» and Raoul Peck's «I Am Not Your Negro» went to the Oscars and helped reify conversations around mass incarceration and racism and police brutality and white privilege for countless folks, all three of these films continue that work.

The subject matter of Three Billboards is of a different sort, dealing with rape, murder, grief and police brutality, among other things, the sort of story that can't be experienced with the same detachment.

But it's not just entertainment value that made Get Out resonate so much with audiences — the film's portrayal of racism in America struck a chord, particularly at a time when repeated cases of police brutality have put the #BlackLivesMatter movement in the spotlight.

As far as Lynch and the activists in control of PBA's rank - and - file are concerned, de Blasio's statement of sympathy with advocates against police brutality was an affront to all of the Big Apple's police officers because he didn't have their back.

Racism in America can take the form of so much more than the «N» word, and here Oluo astutely dismantles issues such as police brutality, cultural appropriation and microaggressions, and the pervasive, poisonous power of racism and white supremacy.

Demonstrators toting «I Can't Breathe» and «Black Lives Matter» placards shut down the I - 195 highway to protest race - based police brutality this year as a climate of social unrest mixed uneasily with the conspicuous consumption at Miami's fairs (which by most accounts were more flush than ever).

«He would also recognize that while some things have not changed in 50 years — like police brutality — many have.

Like his vibrant fabric «Tondos» and black - and - white «Soundsuits,» these wire works possess an aesthetic beauty that belies their underlying gravity — the pieces comprising «Weather or Not» address urgent issues like gun violence and police brutality.

Not Today Satan (2017) pictures a gaggle of Boschian demons shadowing a police car, its «Protect and Serve» slogan rendered absurd by consistent police brutality, while Durham, August 14, 2017 (2017) shows a crumpled Confederate statue, highlighting the recent racist violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.

We can't have the police brutality rally be all black, or the immigration be all brown, or the gay and lesbian rallies be always gays and lesbians.

Moreover, our police brutality lawyers in Stamford and White Plains know that not all police misconduct involves an assault or battery.

Although The Cochran Firm, D.C. is not representing any of the parties in the wrongful death lawsuit against the Baltimore city government, our firm regularly represents the legal interests of victims and their families harmed by police brutality.

And our police brutality lawyers will not allow that.

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