Sentences with phrase «black motorist»

Throughout her career, she has been selected to handle difficult matters, including the disciplinary cases against the officers charged in shooting black motorist Tyisha Miller, which drew national attention, a class action involving a popular food chain, and one of the country's first high profile matters involving a transgender manager.

The New York Times dings Rensselaer County District Attorney Joel Abelove, who is being sued by the state attorney general for flouting the governor's executive order for an outside investigation in the case of a police officer in Troy who fatally shot a black motorist named Edson Thevenin.

Set during the racially tense and combustive period in and around the L.A. riots that followed the controversial verdict in the Rodney King trial in which a mostly white jury acquitted four police officers in the assault on the black motorist, this movie veers from family drama to slapstick comedy to pointless sex scenes to searing riot footage.

Nearly every student in America has learned something since a jury virtually exonerated four white police officers accused of severely beating the black motorist Rodney G. King and rioters took to the streets in Los Angeles, educators said last week.