Sentences with phrase «as police shootings»

How does real violence in the media such as police shootings and terrorism «bleed» into the world of fantasy violence in games and movies?

«Sensitive cases, such as police shootings and police encounter deaths... require an unbiased death investigation that is clearly independent of law enforcement,» the NAS report stated.

«They know it is madness that so - called progressive, liberal, human - rights, or social - justice people of any race or culture have remained mightily silent as these police shootings have been going down coast to coast.»

But the annual speech also touched on still - simmering controversies, such as the police shooting this month of an unarmed Bronx teenager.

Not exact matches

The Tsarnaev brothers have also been accused of shooting dead a police officer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology three days after the attack as they tried to flee Boston.

Tsarnaev is accused of killing three people and injuring 264 with a pair of homemade pressure - cooker bombs at the race's crowded finish line on April 15, 2013, and with fatally shooting a police officer three days later as he and his 26 - year - old brother, Tamerlan, tried to flee.

Within a matter of minutes, Twitter users had identified him in one of the eyewitness videos — clearly not involved in the shooting — even as the police message was being retweeted tens of thousands of times, and TV news channels were still calling him a suspect.

The week began with the death of Alton Sterling, a 37 - year - old black man who was shot multiple times by police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana as he lay on the ground outside a convenience store.

As women enter traditionally male firearms - wielding occupations, such as policing and the military, more women are learning to shooAs women enter traditionally male firearms - wielding occupations, such as policing and the military, more women are learning to shooas policing and the military, more women are learning to shoot.

When Philando Castile was shot by police during a routine roadside stop in Minneapolis, and his death was filmed by his girlfriend Lavish Reynolds as her daughter sat in the back seat, the footage helped galvanize protests about police violence against blacks in the U.S.

Alvear, 25, was identified by police on Monday as one of the 49 people killed by a gunman at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, in the worst mass shooting in U.S. history.

As of now, all versions of Ginga, the official cartoon jaguar of the Rio Olympics, are in good health, but an actual jaguar, named Juma, was shot by a police officer during a segment of the torch relay in Manaus after it somehow escaped and then approached the cop aggressively.

Some of the shots included behind the scenes images of police activity, as well as shots of the wounded being airlifted away.

After a shooting that left several people wounded at the southern edge of Tepito — a rough neighborhood known as a bastion of the Sante Muerte faith — 200 police officers were dispatched, shutting down streets and searching alleys and buildings in pursuit of suspects who fled the scene.

One official characterized the incident to The Post as involving «the fog of war» and said that one accidental shot could have caused what police call «contagious fire» amid the chaos of the day.

GOP Representatives Ron DeSantis and Jeff Duncan both said a man police identified as Hodgkinson spoke to them just before the shooting and asked whether the people at the baseball practice were Republicans or Democrats.

In the hours after the shooting, people who knew Mr. Cruz described him as a «troubled kid» who enjoyed showing off his firearms, bragging about killing animals and whose mother would resort to calling the police to have them come to their home to try to talk some sense into him.

The only reason more people weren't shot: Shaw reportedly rushed the gunman while he reloaded, «grabbed the gun's barrel, pulled it away and threw it over the Waffle House counter,» suffering a gunshot wound and second - degree burns on his right hand from the weapon's barrel while disarming the shooter, later identified by police as 29 - year - old Travis Reinking.

When a witness showed up to identify Nikolas Cruz face - to - face as the gunman who had just carried out a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the 19 - year - old heaved and vomited clear fluid, according to a police re

Body camera footage from officers who entered Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock's hotel suite during October's mass shooting will be released Wednesday, as part of a rolling release of material, police say.

As Cruz makes his way up to the building's second floor, Peterson reports over police radio: «I think we have shots fired, possible shots fired - 1200 building.»

From his perch on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, the gunman, who was identified by the police as Stephen Paddock, used rapid - fire weapons to shoot at concertgoers at a music festival.

-- «State senators condemn fatal police shooting of Stephon Clark,» by LATimes» Patrick McGreevy: «Lawmakers» tempers flared Monday as the California Senate adjourned in memory of Stephon Clark, an unarmed African American man who was shot to death by Sacramento police officers on March 18.

At a press conference this morning, Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson identified Officer Darren Wilson as the officer who shot and killed unarmed 18 - year - old Michael Brown.

When Michael Brown was shot by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson on August 9, it looked like Ferguson, Missouri, was going to serve as just one more stop on the national tour of this classic drama.

On July 6, 2016, Americans were shocked by a live viral Facebook video of a woman begging the same police officer who shot her boyfriend to help him as he bled out in the front seat next to her.

This statistic rang true as I turned on my computer Saturday evening, scrolled through my Twitter feed, and saw #Ferguson, #MikeBrown, and other references to a police shooting where an unarmed teenager was killed in suburban St. Louis.

The driver, who has been identified by law enforcement officials as Sayfullo Saipov, 29, from Uzbekistan, was shot by police after jumping out of the vehicle with what turned out to be two fake guns.

At least six people have died in violence linked to the latest vote, including a man who was shot and killed in the Nairobi slum of Kawangware as security forces moved to quell fighting between gangs from different ethnic groups late on Friday, according to police.

Look at the man in Norway who killed 77... he did it with a bomb and then walked around shooting people dressed as a police officer.

David Berkowitz, AKA «Son of Sam» - The notorious serial killer dubbed by the media as «Son of Sam» stalked New York in 1976 shooting victims and leaving behind notes mocking the police.

Police are looking into mistaken identlty as a motive in the shooting death of an Army veteran outside of Los Angeles.

(CNN)- Given initial suspicions that Friday's bombing and mass shooting in Norway were carried out by Islamic militants linked to al Qaeda, the way police ended up describing the suspect behind the attacks came as a big surprise even to many security experts: The alleged attacker was called a «Christian fundamentalist.»

He boarded the windows, apparently preparing for a long siege, but as police surrounded the schoolhouse, Roberts shot all 10 girls before killing himself.

If guns are bad, aren't a good deterrent to crime, and can get the owner shot (which, if you discount suicides, barely registers as a single percentage of gun injuries), why then do police and the military have them?

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.

Police responded to a number of reports of shots being fired on Oxford Street and underground at Oxford Circus tube station and are responding as if the incident is terrorist related, Scotland Yard said.

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Early reports said that Pistorius told police the shooting was an accident and he had mistaken the victim as an intruder, but a police spokeswoman, Brig. Denise Beukes, said those reports did not come from police.

The team also wore t - shirts with «Change Starts With Us: Justice & Accountability» written on the front and the names of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile as well as the Dallas Police Department emblem on the back to honor and mourn the losses of two black men shot and killed by police and five officers killed on duty lastPolice Department emblem on the back to honor and mourn the losses of two black men shot and killed by police and five officers killed on duty lastpolice and five officers killed on duty last week.

Morgan was tweeting his criticism of Olly Murs for stirring up confusion as police initially treated an incident in the area as though it were a terrorist attack, though it later emerged no shots were fired.

The week belonged to a ghost and a prisoner — the murdered American wrestler Dave Schultz and his accused killer, eccentric millionaire John du Pont, who police say gunned the wrestler down in his own driveway, with Schultz's wife, Nancy, watching in horror as Du Pont fired the last shot.

A 23 - year - old man was shot as he sat in a car in the 9000 block of South Union Avenue in the Gresham neighborhood about 10:35 p.m. Thursday, police said.

Two men were shot and killed this morning as they sat in an SUV stopped at a traffic light in the Rogers Park neighborhood, Chicago police said.

At a community meeting last week, the debate between residents heated up when a civilian beat facilitator, who acts as a go - between for police and residents, said gang problems at Haas Park have declined dramatically despite the shooting.

An NYPD commander was cooperating with authorities as part of a wide - ranging corruption probe before fatally shooting himself, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said.

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.

According to the police, without verifying the identity of Captain Mahama, the assemblyman and armed townsfolk accosted the military officers, gave him chase, shot at him, and eventually pounced on him using crude weapons such as cement blocks, clubs, among others, until he died around 10 am on Monday, two hours after he started a 20 km jog.

When the attacker was shot yesterday, he received the same medical attention as the police officer he killed.

More tragically, they posted videos of people killed by police only minutes after the president declared that the government would no longer respond with violence, including one of a young woman shot in the head as she came back from the market with a carton of milk — she had wrongly trusted that it was safe to go out.