Sentences with phrase «black youth arrested»
The testimony of the Harlem Six, a half a dozen black youth arrested for murder during the 1964 Harlem race riots was the genesis for his latest series of text - based paintings.
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Elsewhere, the more professional approach resulted in fewer arrests of black and mixed race youths and improved relationships with their community.
The adversarial style was particularly prominent in inner - city areas, where the relationship between the police and young black people was shaped by a history of friction, and resulted in proportionately more arrests of black and mixed race youths.
The Democratic governor on Monday proposed cutting the penalty for public possession from a criminal misdemeanor to a violation, saying it would save thousands of New Yorkers, mostly black and Hispanic youths, from unnecessary arrests and criminal charges.
The statue has been the site of various protests and art actions over the years, including in 1971 when six Native Americans were arrested for defacing the statue with paint, in 1991 as a symbolic part of David Hammons's «Public Enemy» installation at the Museum of Modern Art, and in 2015 as part of Black Youth Project 100's Black Out Tour that highlighted racist histories at AMNH.
In 1997, a black judge acquitted a black boy who was arrested by a white police officer for allegedly interfering with the arrest of another youth.
White youth accounted for more than half — 54 percent — of all juvenile arrests, followed by black youth at 45 percent in 2014.