Sentences with phrase «black police officers make»

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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 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.»

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 woman's mother alerted police in Maryland to postings she believed Brinsley was making on an Instagram account, which included anti-police writings — several news outlets have tied Brinsley to posts saying he wanted to kill police officers in revenge for recent police - related deaths of unarmed black men Eric Garner in Staten Island and Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo..

A new state bill would make it a hate crime to use physical force on a police officer — and its chief sponsor argued the past two years of Black Lives Matter demonstrations have made cops a target for violence.

«Some of our police officers are making race - based discretionary decisions on who they're going to arrest for low - level marijuana possession,» said Leroy Gadsden, the president of a branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Jamaica, Queens, and the chairman of the criminal justice committee for the statewide N.A.A.C.P. «Therefore, of course, if you're a young, black male, even a female, you're going to feel that you're being targeted when you notice that your white counterparts are not being arrested for the same thing.»

Washington Post: Racial disparities in school discipline are growing, federal data show Mother Jones: Betsy DeVos Is Making It Easier for Schools to Send Black Kids to Jail Houston Chronicle: Houston ISD drops proposal to give control of 10 schools to a charter outfit Chicago City Bureau: Police officers assigned to schools given no directives.

In a recent episode of his absorbing podcast, «Revisionist History,» cultural critic Malcolm Gladwell interrogates a statue modeled after a news photograph of a confrontation in 1963 between a police officer with a dog and a young black boy in Birmingham, Alabama.1 Made by African American sculptor Dr. Ronald McDowell, The Foot Soldier (1995) is far more horrific than the photo, Gladwell convincingly argues, because it bears an added imaginative potency: the narrative is told by a traditionally silenced voice, and for Gladwell this «is just what happens when the people on the bottom finally get the power to tell the story their way.»

Speaking to Andrianna Campbell for ARTnews last year, Scott explained that the work, which he made in response to the 2015 killing of Walter Scott, an unarmed black man, by a white police officer in North Charleston, South Carolina, was meant to bring the current political moment into conversation with the past.

Background: Mr. Joel Debellefeuille, a Black man was driving his White wife and their son in a BMW to daycare in Brossard, a municipality in the South of Montreal, when the couple was intercepted for two police officers who made a U-turn and tailed the couple for eleven blocks, until they arrived at the daycare center.

Among the finalists are Aaron Blue, a man who works hard to support his family, makes great French Toast, builds furniture and has a Black Belt; and David Bower, a logger - turned - police officer who worked tirelessly to care for his son with leukemia.