Sentences with phrase «against police brutality»

More than 100 people were arrested and 21 police officers were injured during protests against police brutality in Minnesota on Saturday night going into Sunday morning.

Protesters from the Zuccotti Park Occupy Wall Street protest march against police brutality, Sept. 30, 2011 (Photo: David Shankbone / Wikimedia)

Martin McDonagh's angry, funny, heartbreaking movie seems to be borne of our particular moment, with its righteous female rage butting up against police brutality in a small Midwestern town.

The presence of the civil rights leader who has led national marches against police brutality for decades and is seen by critics as reflexively anti-police rekindled a debate about his track record on public safety at a time when his ally, Mayor Bill de Blasio, is seeking to burnish his bonds with police officers, large numbers of whom turned their backs on him at two police funerals last December.

Party officials said that Ms. Garner was a leading voice in the struggle against police brutality since her father, Eric Garner, died at the hands of NYC police in 2014.

At a public rally against police brutality last August, Micah Dexter spoke about the incident and claimed that one of the officers said, «This is compliments of Frank Fowler and Stephanie Miner.»

Shames» other photographs — of demonstrations against police brutality, of Newton listening to Dylan — are subtle and striking.

Rap group NWA stood up against police brutality with their ground - breaking ferocious debut album Straight Outta Compton (Ruthless).

The shootings were followed by the assassinations of five police officers in Dallas at a march earlier this week, which again set off a wave of public outcry over police reform and touched off protests against police brutality around the country.

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.

Foy has a long history of organizing against police brutality and for economic justice in Bed - Stuy and Crown Heights.

With protests breaking out around the country against police brutality, Hakeem Jeffries introduced a bill to ban police chokeholds, the irresponsible practice which led to the death of Eric Garner last year.

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.

Despite their differences, Sini and Perini said they would take a hard line against police brutality, ensure the rights of minorities, and bolster environmental prosecutions.

Garner's last words became a rallying cry for protests against police brutality across the country.

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 nightly.

The deal between the speaker and the police commissioner also comes as protests against police brutality roil around the country.

Party leaders noted the movement against police brutality had lost a leading light, but that it would continue to organize while remembering Erica and her father.

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.

When the group wrote the harsh lyrics of F *** the Police, it was a reaction against the police brutality they'd witnessed for years prior.

Fighting tooth and nail for his right to speak publicly against police brutality is surely the last thing the widely beloved director was planning to do in the final weeks leading up to his eighth feature film, but a shiny nugget of good news has arrived today in the form of a new, awesome trailer for The Hateful Eight.

The PSA, an entreaty against police brutality, features each student rapping for a minute or two before passing the mike.

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.

CHARLESTON — Dozens of protesters started a march from Staten Island to Washington D.C. by walking across the Outerbridge Crossing on Monday in a rally against police brutality.

This is the final question raised by Martine Syms's second solo show in London, a tastefully oblique, risk - free display that simultaneously draws on and hollows out the recent history of African American - led demonstrations against police brutality and institutional racism.

Organizers are busing in potentially thousands of protesters from other states — including from high - crime urban areas such as Newark — to attend Saturday's march against police brutality.

Before this weekend's mass NFL protests against police brutality, racism, and President Donald Trump's attempt to squash those protests, there was Colin Kaepernick's famous kneeling protest in August 2016.

Papa John's founder John Schnatter, who stepped down as CEO at the end of last year, had blamed falling sales on the NFL's failure to resolve the raging controversy over players taking a knee during the national anthem, in order to protest against police brutality.

It caused a wave of new demonstrations, some of which took away from the focus of Colin Kaepernick's protest — which was against police brutality and oppression against people of color.

Sanders said that the focus of protests against police brutality have since lost their touch from when the originals started.

He had played previous shows with a massive Confederate flag behind him and has been a vocal critic of Colin Kaepernick's protest against police brutality.

Kaepernick continued his protest against police brutality and racial oppression by kneeling once again during the singing of the national anthem.

It wasn't against police; it was against police brutality.

Mr. Cuomo, reacting to the mass protests against police brutality that have convulsed the country since grand juries failed to indict police officers in the deaths of black men in Staten Island and Ferguson, Mo., argued that «today, sadly, too many people are questioning if the blindfold is still intact or does the justice system now see black and white or black and blue or rich and poor.»

This incident led to numerous protests against police brutality and Grant has since become something of an icon of martyrdom.

Amid nationwide police boycotts of «The Hateful Eight» sparked by the filmmaker's decision to speak out against police brutality, TheWrap remembers other times Tarantino's mouth got as much attention as his movies.

Quentin Tarantino has recently found himself at the center of controversy — again — after he went to a protest against police brutality and made some comments that angered police officers and has resulted in an ever - spreading boycott by police unions and organizations across the country.

New mortgages were up 26 % in the resurgent Maryland city located an hour outside the nation's capital, which continues to bounce back from years of high unemployment and last year's much publicized protests against police brutality.

The suit was filed on behalf of an anonymous officer with the Baton Rouge Police Department who was injured in July 2016 during a protest against police brutality.