Sentences with phrase «black officers who»

«You had two black officers who didn't draw their weapons and one white officer who [shot],» he says.

The movie is a true story about a black officer who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan.

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A 25 - year - old man was arrested after a lone policeman unwaveringly stared down the agitated suspect — clothed head to toe in black — who appeared to repeatedly draw an object from his hip and point it at the officer.

Today, the Blacks Harbour, New Brunswick - based company is called Cooke Aquaculture and employs over 1,600 people in the region: including Nicholls, who is now the chief operating officer.

The black voters in Philly, and I say this based on 30 years of picking juries and talking to them, are more likely to have a family member who is a police officer, a family member who is in jail, and a family member who has been killed or severely victimized.

One officer is notorious for harassing local black residents, to the point where he has been given a street nickname of «Bro Stupid,» said Burnell Williams, who works with at - risk youth and ex-prisoners for the nonprofit group Against All Odds.

Authorities in Baton Rouge last week thwarted a planned attack on police officers days after the shooting of Alton Sterling, a 37 - year - old black man who was killed by police in an encounter that was largely captured on video and raised widespread concerns about the officers» actions.

For those who need the introductions, Melroy is a retired Air Force officer and former NASA astronaut who piloted the space shuttle Discover, Drell is one of the foremost leaders in the field of particle physics, and Malvala is an astrophysicist and member of the team that first detected gravitational waves from colliding black holes.

John Powell, who has been with Help - U-Sell for 28 years and is currently the Chief Development Officer, advises that you think beyond the black and white of your budget.

The HR officer who called Sheldon in was a black woman skilled, as Leonard would say, in handlIng human relations issues....

Though the DOJ's report did not recommend seeking charges against the officer who shot and killed unarmed teen Michael Brown during a confrontation this summer, it did say that the department routinely violated the constitutional rights of black residents.

Officers stopped the man who «was found in possession of a large knife» in a black case near the cathedral in Francis Street.

In those cases the court deferred to the judgment of the Air Force that the free - exercise claim of a Jewish officer who wore his yarmulke on duty could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of correctional authorities that the free - exercise claim of a Black Muslim to attend Friday afternoon religious services could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service that building a logging road through a national forest was necessary despite the damage to religious practices of Native American tribes in that area; it deferred to the Internal Revenue Service's ruling that Bob Jones University was not entitled to tax exemption because of its religiously motivated rule against interracial dating and marriage on campus; it deferred to the judgment of the secretary of labor that a religious community must pay its members the minimum wage for work they performed in the group's business although the members said they had religious objections to being paid for their work.

The video comes after several other shootings of unarmed black men by white police officers, and has drawn outrage online for how police treated Harris, who died shortly after at the hospital.

Has it made a difference or slowed the gunning down of young, unarmed black men who brandish mobile phones that officers mistook as firearms, resulting in six shots to the back?

Slager is the white officer who shot an unarmed black man, Walter Scott, last year, which...

Slager is the white officer who shot an unarmed black man, Walter Scott, last year, which further exacerbated tensions between law enforcement and many within the black community — basically a theme of 2015.

Since the shooting of unarmed black teen Michael Brown — and lack of indictment of the officer, who is white — sparked massive protests in Ferguson, the news has featured a seemingly constant stream...

On Wednesday, a Staten Island grand jury announced its decision not to indict police officer Daniel Pantaleo, who put an unarmed black man in a chokehold that resulting in the man's death.

The film is subtle in its appreciation of Mandela's abiding greatness: his popular and personal touch, showing how he insisted on having white protection officers among suspicious black ones and in keeping on the white civil servants who had served his white predecessor and who feared the sack from their new black president.

The New York City PBA has been at odds with Mayor Bill de Blasio in recent months over police tactics and criminal justice reform measures sought after the death of Eric Garner, an unarmed black man who died after a choke hold administered by a police officer.

Herman Bell, who, along with two other members of the Black Liberation Army, shot and killed two NYPD officers outside a housing project in Harlem in 1971, has been granted parole.

A leaker revealed the disciplinary records of the NYPD officer who killed Eric Garner, Daniel Pantaleo, giving the police department another black eye.

Who would have thought that a 70 - year - old former Black Panther, granted parole after 45 years in prison for the 1971 killing of two New York City police officers, would bring you two together?

Federal prosecutors began presenting evidence to a grand jury in Brooklyn in the death of Garner, an unarmed black man who died after being placed in a chokehold by a white police officer in Staten Island in July 2014, according to a person briefed on the matter.

The acquittal of a Baltimore police officer charged in the arrest of Freddie Gray, the black man who suffered a fatal spinal cord injury while in police custody last year, immediately renewed questions of whether any of the six police officers charged in the case would be convicted in connection with his death.

There was the Michael Stewart case - the black Graffiti Artist and model who died on a lower Manhattan subway platform from a chokehold and beating he received from several police officers.

Mayor Bill de Blasio defended his administration's legal effort to avoid divulging the disciplinary history of the NYPD officer who killed black Staten Islander Eric Garner in 2014 — even as the liberal Democrat claimed to support releasing such records in principle.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said he will investigate a shooting in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn on Wednesday after a 34 - year - old black man with mental health issues was shot by officers who mistook a metal shower head he was holding for a gun.

But Eric L. Adams, the Brooklyn borough president, who is black and a former police officer, said the mayor was, in fact, well positioned to speak out.

The two officers were shot --» assassinated,» as the mayor and police commissioner put it — through the window of their patrol car by 28 - year - old Ismaaiyl Brinsley, who posted on social media that he was out for revenge for the police - related deaths of unarmed black men, Eric Garner and Michael Brown.

After a Staten Island grand jury failed to indict a white NYPD officer in the death of Garner, a black Staten Islander, last year, critics in political and academic circles charged that local district attorneys, who often work closely with the police to prosecute crimes, are too close to law enforcement to consistently bring charges against them when they run afoul of the law.

The failure to recognize that black and brown lives matter is evident throughout all five boroughs, as New York's communities of color suffer the brutality of hyper - aggressive policing and are too often denied meaningful accountability of officers who to choose to use excessive and deadly force.

Rodriguez is said to be someone who gets the issues facing young police officers, many of whom are black, Hispanic and Asian.

Superintendent Runcie — who also happens to be black — says their viewpoint is simple: more funds for resource officers.

The family of Michael Brown, the unarmed black teenager who was fatally shot by a suburban St. Louis police officer last Saturday, may attend Sharpton's «We Will Not Go Back» march.

A coalition of Republican Senators and police unions has launched an online petition urging the state parole board not to release a former Black Panther who was convicted of killing two New York City police officers — Joseph Piagentini and Waverly Jones — in 1971.

Court records obtained by the AP show Richmond University Medical Center has agreed to pay $ 1 million to the family of Eric Garner, a black man who died after being placed in a chokehold by a white NYPD officer.

A Cleveland grand jury declined to bring charges in the death of Tamir Rice, a black youth with a toy gun who was shot by a white police officer 13 months ago.

Also dead behind bars: Anthony Laborde, 62, a member of the Black Liberation Army who killed Police Officer John Scaragella in 1981.

Nearly a year after the federal Justice Department declined to bring civil rights charges against a white police officer who fatally shot a black college student in Pleasantville, Westchester County in 2010, the victim's family has agreed to a $ 6 million settlement, a lawyer for the family announced.

He referenced Officer Daniel Pantaleo, who put Eric Garner, a black man, in a chokehold in 2014 on Staten Island that killed him.

The group linked those practices, which they say unfairly and unconstitutionally target communities of color, with Davis» death, as well as that of Jose Hernandez - Rossy, who was fatally shot by a police officer in Black Rock in May.

The announcement comes one day after the most recent public disagreement between de Blasio and Bratton: over an interaction between police officers and Michael Blake, a black state assemblyman who said police roughly tossed him against a gate for inquiring about an arrest.

He also faced some criticism from police officers who turned their backs on him at the funerals of two police officers assassinated while sitting in their patrol car in Brooklyn in 2014 and took issue with him warning his half - black son, Dante, about the potential dangers of interacting with police.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WBEN)- Officers with the Buffalo Police Department have been wearing a black stripe with the number 2469 in white to honor Craig Lehner, who died on October 13 during a training mission with the department's Underwater Rescue Team.

March 17: Our investigative reporter James Fanelli wrote about a Bronx mom Tyeesha Mobley, 29, who sued the city and NYPD after she had called the police to teach her son why stealing is wrong and ended up wrongfully arrested and taunted by an NYPD officer that «black b — es don't know how to take care of your kids.»

The attorney general asked for the appointment shortly after a grand jury decided not to indict a white police officer who applied an apparent chokehold that a medical examiner said killed Staten Islander Eric Garner, who is black.

But on Capitol Hill, party strategists are nervously taking stock of Donovan, who oversaw the grand jury investigation that declined to indict the officers involved in the July chokehold death of Eric Garner, a 43 - year - old black man.

Black Lives Matter activists protested the arrest of an anti-violence advocate who was taken into custody while videotaping officers frisking a handcuffed motorist in Syracuse.