Sentences with phrase «about police states»
Recent exhibitions include Nancy Chunn's topical «Chicken Little and the Culture of Fear,» which uses bright animated colors to make pointed statements about police states.
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Talk about a police state!
We have to talk about the police state, and what that means, and we have to talk about the fact that all bodies are not viewed the same within the political narrative.
Not exact matches
The public sector union says it will tear up the pay offer it is about to put to members and go after the State Government for more money if Premier Mark McGowan caves in to police.
They learn about using the media to look like the victims of state violence, and about police tactics such as the use of «pain compliance» — holds that cause pain without causing injury that could result in an assault charge.
Fifty - one % said they found news stories about the deaths of people at the hands of police officers, or news about ambush attacks on police in three states, to be among the year's most important news events.
State police referred questions about the incident involving El Marro to state prosecutors, who did not respond to requests for comState police referred questions about the incident involving El Marro to state prosecutors, who did not respond to requests for comstate prosecutors, who did not respond to requests for comment.
Police referred questions about those deaths to the Guanajuato state attorney general's office.
A roundup of gun control and violence studies by writer German Lopez at Vox shows Americans represent less than 5 % of the world population but possess nearly 50 % of the world's civilian - owned guns, police are about three times more likely to be killed in states with high gun ownership, countries with more guns see more gun deaths, and states with tighter gun control laws see fewer gun - related deaths, among other sobering statistics.
On May 21 an FBI agent, along with two Massachusetts State Police troopers and other law enforcement personnel, interviewed Ibragim Todashev about his connection to Tsarnaev.
A comedy about a group of Vermont state police officers engaged in a border dispute with Canadian «Mounties,» «Super Troopers 2» premiered to a solid opening over the weekend, raking in $ 14.7 million against the $ 5 million to $ 7 million it was projected to hit.
Acknowledging there's much still to be learned about Paddock, his state of mind, and his motivations, Safir said, «There should be a database for police departments and federal agencies of people who have been... mentally disturbed where before you get a gun these people have to be cleared in order to process them.»
When former Simi Valley police Detective Michael Bender heard investigators in Ventura County filed murder charges against the so - called Golden State Killer, he thought about his friend — and now housemate — Craig Coley.
Yaniv Erlich, a geneticist at Columbia University, was far from surprised at last week's news that police may have found a serial murderer and rapist, California's long - sought Golden State Killer, by tapping a public DNA database to match crime scene DNA: Erlich had cautioned in a June 2014 article about genetic privacy, published in Nature Reviews Genetics, that GEDmatch, the website that was reportedly used, could allow for such «genealogical triangulation.»
«About 4 million people above the age of 12 in the United States used an illegal drug in 1970, before we started the war,» says Jack Cole, a retired police officer and founder of the group Law Enforcement Against Prohibition.
Can't say much about the produce counting you speculate on, but how about this for a civil liberties issue — currently if you drive in CT, you are likely to have your license plate scanned by the CT State Police.
trust me no light is coming from this, unless buy light you mean furthering the police state, which is kinda what Yahweh all about.
Last year in Ireland, a police file was opened on Bishop Philip Boyce after one of the country's leading secularists, John Colgan, complained about an «offensive» homily in which the bishop stated that the Church is being «attacked from the outside by the arrows of a secular and godless culture.»
Haleem Masih, the church's pastor, filed a police report which stated: «Today at about 1 pm I was conducting a worship service when [a group of men, including a government official], equipped with firearms, barged into the church.
What is unique about the case of Judaism, however, is the strange task that seems to have devolved on secular Jews by which they have assumed the role» to Novak's undisguised dismay» of being, so to speak, the gatekeepers and marshals of secular ideology, perpetually taking it upon themselves to police the boundaries between church and state.
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.
Or wait, how about the 10 % sales tax that we now pay so that police and fire unions can retire at 50 with full pensions and literally BANKRUPT counties across the state (the number is at 15 and counting).
Over at The Atlantic, I give a synopsis of what I'm on about when talking of the «pink police state» — Orwell's «Big Brother» meets the big brother who drives a Camaro, goes to community college, and bounces at the local strip club....
Sure enough, about two weeks later, an undercover state police officer, accompanied by a DEA agent, showed up at Dave's door and bluntly asked him where the pot plants were.
A woman is suing Michigan State, alleging the university talked her out of reporting to police about an alleged rape involving three members of the basketball team, according to Chris Solari of the Detroit Free Press.
Subsequently, I got a call from the state police about a complaint of skinny - dipping.
About 70 public works and parks and recreation employees along with police telecommunicators, all belonging to the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 368, have been without a new contract for 17 months since their collective bargaining agreement expired April 30, 2011.
About 70 public works and parks and recreation employees along with police dispatchers belong to the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 368, and they have been without a contract for 17 months since their collective bargaining agreement expired April 30, 2011.
He said «The Ondo State Command of the Nigeria Police on Sept. 24 at about 2: 00 p.m., arrested a wanted Boko Haram terrorist, Idris Ibrahim Babawo, believed to be number 156 on the wanted Boko Haram terrorists list.
«He was handed over to the 32 Brigade, 2 Division, Nigerian Army at about 2:00 p.m. on Sept. 25 by the Ondo State Police Command.»
An immediate suspension of alcohol sales and consumption at Vineyard 48 in Cutchogue was ordered by the state Liquor Authority after police received complaints from neighbors about public sex, fights and intoxicated patrons on or near the premises.
However, the IGP in a press release on Thursday, April 6 stated: «We had police officers at the court and we had about 20 officers on standby but, if you remember we gave the accused persons [police] bail when they were suspects and they willingly appeared before the court, so you can imagine that the extent of danger or likelihood of they escaping was not as high as we will believe,» he explained at a press conference in Accra on Thursday, April 6.
Before 2018, the different laws were mostly about police and intelligence services freedom of action as well as proclaiming France in a «state of emergency» to have a more secure state.
He said all citizens of Ekiti State should «go about their lawful businesses as the police and the other security agencies are in synergy to ensure adequate protection of lives and property in the state.&rState should «go about their lawful businesses as the police and the other security agencies are in synergy to ensure adequate protection of lives and property in the state.&rstate.»
State Police would not comment on inquiries about a possible second traffic stop
As this article states: Concerns are raised, for example, about the ability of the police or courts to identify and question suspects or witnesses [who are wearing full face coverings].
State officials said the email was a reminder to police chiefs about its existence.
The State Police quietly probed mistreatment of female recruits and found evidence of inappropriate conduct, but never made that public and closed the inquiry, raising questions about whether the allegations were fully investigated or covered up.
About a week after Lewis» license was revoked, Jacobs said he got a call from New York State Police explaining «they had the wrong guy.»
Cuomo, saying there is a «crisis of confidence» in the criminal justice system, signed an executive order to have the state's attorney general take over from local district attorneys, anytime a unarmed civilian is killed in an encounter with police, and there are questions about what happened.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo is deploying «hundreds» of additional state police, National Guard troops and MTA and Port Authority cops to patrol the city's transits hubs and crossings during the holiday season amid heightened concerns about terrorism.
I'm not suggesting that he's about to send the State Police across the Hudson to annex the Meadowlands in New Jersey, but am I the only person who sees the obvious parallels between New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and Russian President Vladimir Putin?
The order appoints the state attorney general as a special prosecutor in cases where unarmed suspects are killed by police, or when there is a question about whether a suspect was armed or not.
Evidence from other states, however, suggests the signs could yield results: the Police department in Janesville, Wis., reported calls tripled after the department started putting information about wanted suspects and anti-crime messages on billboards.
Lawmakers spent a lot of time talking about meaty issues, including establishing a system of paid family and medical leave, reinstituting tolls on state highways and setting up new measures to address police accountability, but in the end, a lack of consensus scuttled chances for a vote.
Albany Police were similarly dismissive of the remarks, and not worried about the governor overstepping any boundaries by calling in state police reinforcePolice were similarly dismissive of the remarks, and not worried about the governor overstepping any boundaries by calling in state police reinforcepolice reinforcements.
The Anambra State Commissioner of Police, Garba Umar, has said plans have been made for deployment of security personnel totaling about 16,000 for the over 4,000 polling units.
Soares, as you'll recall, issued two separate Troopergate reports, neither of which recommended any criminal charges for key players in the scandal — although the second suggested former Gov. Eliot Spitzer had perhaps been «not truthful» about his role in the failed plot by his administration to use the State Police to discredit his then - political nemesis, ex-Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno.
Not just New Labour's overwhelming desire to amass all sorts of information about the individual and New Labour's managerial model of how to govern but also, in particular, a steady shift away from «justice» and towards «control»: towards the arbitrary, unconstrained use of power through the regular invocation of states of exception (terror legislation and Iceland is in this category); the creation of catch - all legislation whose operational interpretation is at the whim of the police (photography, questioning individual police officers); government attempts to constrain the judiciary through tick - the - box sentencing guidelines, and at an individual level examples such as David Milliband's quite disgraceful prevarication over torture allegations.
As part of that campaign, SUNY and CUNY personnel will be working alongside State Police to raise awareness about the dangers of heroin and opioid abuse.