Sentences with phrase «black police officers»

A video, Fathers and Sons, interviews black police officers who must deal with even younger African Americans.

For instance, I recently finished reading the absolutely stunning novel Darktown by Thomas Mullen, a fictional account of the first black police officers to patrol Atlanta in 1948.

Mullen talked with BookPage about the first black police officers, writing outside your race and more during his visit to the 2016 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville.

This time, black police officers Lucius Boggs and Tommy Smith stumble upon a shipment of moonshine and marijuana destined for their traditionally black neighborhood.

Restrictions on stop and frisk have made cops afraid to make arrests — even of suspected drug peddlers — a black police officer told Mayor de Blasio on Friday.

The film is told through differing views: by the bystander who filmed the shooting, the black police officer, and a high - school baseball phenom inspired to take a stand.

The Deadline hot title interweaves a story told through the eyes of the bystander who filmed the act, a black police officer and a high - school baseball phenom inspired to take a stand, showing the impact of racism and violence on a community.

The plot interweaves the story of what happens in the aftermath of a police shooting in Brooklyn's Bed - Stuy neighborhood told through the eyes of the bystander who filmed the act, a black police officer and a high school baseball phenom inspired to take a stand, showing the impact of racism and violence on a community.

Green's feature debut is an expansion of his 2015 short Stop, but the film is told through differing views: the bystander who filmed the act, a black police officer, and a high - school baseball phenom inspired to take a stand.

The movie, produced by Get Out director Jordan Peele, is about the real - life story of Ron Stallworth, the black police officer who went undercover in 1978 to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan — speaking on the phone to Klansmen and sending white officers in his place when face - to - face meetings were required.

John David Washington (Ballers) stars alongside Adam Driver (Star Wars: The Last Jedi) in this incredible true story of a black police officer who infiltrated the notorious Ku Klux Klan hate group in the 1970s, and that's not the only notable pairing of this film — it also teams producer Jordan Peele (Get Out) with director Spike Lee.

Taking this year's jury prize was Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman, a real - life tale of rookie black police officer Ron Stallworth (John David Washington) who infiltrates the Colorado Springs branch of the Ku Klux Klan.

Based on an incredible true story, BlacKkKlansman is about a black police officer in Colorado in the 70s who is recruited into the local chapter of the KKK.

The film is based on a true story of a black police officer in Colorado who infiltrated the Klu Klux Klan.

Starring John David Washington and Adam Driver, the film is based on the true story of Stallworth — a black police officer who went undercover and successfully infiltrated a Ku Klux Klan chapter.

Father and Sons, the video, depicts a uniformed black police officer and his two teenage sons standing silently in front of a microphone in the Reverend Al Sharpton's National Action Network House of Justice.

This figure, posed by Marshall in a canny art historical riff on Girodet's Portrait of Citizen Jean - Baptiste Belley, Ex-Representative of the Colonies (1797), calls to mind the shock of Ellison's protagonist when he leaves the South and comes to New York for the first time, where he encounters a black police officer in Harlem calmly directing traffic, as if it were the most natural thing in the world.

The first black police officer of Atlanta, many retired Spelman and Morehouse professors, etc..

Not exact matches

Police officers use bicycles to create cordons around a protest march by various groups, including «Black Lives Matter» and «Shut Down Trump and the RNC,» ahead of the convention.

The verdict comes about three years after rioting broke out in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson when an unarmed black teenager was shot dead by a white police officer.

A police officer cools off by riding through an open fire hydrant on a hot afternoon during a Black Lives Matter protest in downtown Philadelphia.

The ad, which featured Jenner joining a vague protest and giving a police officer a can of soda to diffuse the situation, was accused of trivializing social movements like Black Lives Matter.

This includes «chronic, structural racial injustice — such as the persistent paucity of black faculty members and administrators at Yale, the common experience of being the only black student in some classes, and being disproportionately likely to be stopped and asked for ID — or worse — by campus police officers.»

According to The Wall Street Journal, body cameras have become a $ 1 billion industry since the deaths of Brown, Eric Garner, and other unarmed black civilians at the hands of police officers.

The deaths of Brown and Garner made national headlines, but according to a recent report by the FBI, there was an average of 96 cases per year, from 2006 to 2012, of a white police officer killing a black person.

The shooting death of an 18 - year - old black man named Michael Brown by a 28 - year - old white police officer, and the weeks of protest that followed.

On Wednesday, Bennett released a statement saying a Las Vegas police officer pointed a gun at him and detained him «for doing nothing more than simply being a black man in the wrong place at the wrong time.»

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.

The shooting death of a 12 - year - old black boy named Tamir Rice by two white Cleveland Police Department officers.

The riots began after the official announcement that a grand jury had declined to indict a white Ferguson police officer for shooting an unarmed black teenager.

Blacks accounted for about 19 percent of Minneapolis» population in 2010 but just about 9 percent of the city's police officers in 2013, according to U.S. data.

Nekima Levy - Pounds, president of the Minneapolis chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, compares the city's mostly white police department to «an occupying force» when its officers go into black neighborhoods.

Here we have a police officer warding people off with a taser gun during a Black Friday Walmart sale in 2011:

Black residents of Minneapolis and nearby towns said the lack of a requirement for police to live in the jurisdictions they patrol has kept officers disconnected from neighborhoods.

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.

Protests occurred again in September after a white former St. Louis police officer was acquitted in the shooting death of another black man in 2011.

The plaintiffs detailed a series of «militaristic displays of force and weaponry,» including being shot with rubber bullets, tear gassed, beaten and arrested during demonstrations following the shooting of the black teen by a white police officer.

An American police officer in plainclothes has shot dead a Black Christian drummer whose car had broken... More

the first disciplinarian of the black youth is the police officer.

Yesterday afternoon in New York City, police officers shot and killed a black man after he pointed a metal pipe at the officers and they confused it for a gun,...

The lack of parenting skills means, far to often the first disciplinarian for black youth is the Police Officer.

I join many other adults in the black community when I advise any young black man that I influence of the importance of honoring and respecting the police, while also keeping his hands visible and consistently identifying the officer by his badge number.

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.

Ferguson went into a series of riots in protest of how white police officers treat black men in their city.

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 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.

As The Post noted in a new analysis published last week, that means black Americans are 2.5 times as likely as white Americans to be shot and killed by police officers.

«I don't want to get too political, but police officers in this city react much differently to a group of black people than they do to a bunch of white kids,» he says.

Newton's comments leading up to the Panthers game and protest reflected him wanting to bring unity, but said his desire for accountability applied to both the black community and police officers and that there was a state of oppression in the black community but also that «as black people, we have to do right by ourselves.

The primary claim he makes in the first paragraph is that «Las Vegas police officers singled me out and pointed their guns at me for doing nothing more than simply being a black man in the wrong place at the wrong time.»