Sentences with phrase «by police brutality»

Although The Cochran Firm, D.C. is not representing any of the parties in the wrongful death lawsuit against the Baltimore city government, our firm regularly represents the legal interests of victims and their families harmed by police brutality.

This building comes at a time when names carry greater weight, in an age where a new hash - tag bearing the name of a black individual killed by police brutality appears at an ever more rapid rate.

Are they provoked by police brutality?

Sparked by racial injustice and inflamed by police brutality, the riots seem like the sort of historical event tailor - made for Bigelow's brand of compellingly problematic cinema.

Though the current #BlackLivesMatter movement rightly focuses on the lives cut short by police brutality, it has yet to bring the pandemic emotional devastation of communities losing their children en masse to mainstream consciousness.

NDC MPs and former appointees visit youth activist injured by Police brutality at CID Headquarters

There is often a great deal of talk about opposing a sense of victimhood and entitlement — which most people in my neighborhood would probably agree with — but we must recognize that people are still being victimized by police brutality and other forms of trauma; they are entitled to both the basic necessities of life as well as opportunities to provide those and more for themselves.

God was not caught off guard by police brutality,» my pastor recently preached.

Not exact matches

After Trump said in September that players should be fired for protesting, several players and others within the NFL began kneeling on the sidelines as the anthem played at games, continuing the demonstration started in 2016 by Colin Kaepernick, a San Francisco 49ers quarterback at the time, to protest racial inequality and police brutality.

The Massachusetts senator addressed the issue of police brutality in a Facebook post, evoking the irony inherent in the fact that Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, and countless others have died by the hands of those who have sworn to protect and serve.

Concerns about professional football players and whether they should be fired for silently protesting racial inequality and police brutality during the playing of the Star - Spangled Banner by taking a knee.

Drew Hart is the author of Trouble I've Seen: Changing the Way the Church Views Racism, which released in January and which tackles police brutality, mass incarceration, antiblack stereotypes, poverty, and everyday acts of racism by placing them in the larger framework of white supremacy.

Where is the line between police brutality and brutality exercised by others?

The protests were started by (now - free agent) quarterback Colin Kaepernick to raise awareness about racial injustice and to protest police brutality.

«It seems so timely right now as we have these conversations about the football players kneeling during the anthem at the NFL games, led by Colin Kaepernick and the controversy that's arisen around it,» he says, referencing the demonstrations by dozens of NFL players protesting racial injustice and police brutality.

The most recent Twitter bout started when Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said he would bench any players who chose to «disrespect the flag» — presumably referring to some players» recent protests against racist police brutality, which they've demonstrated by kneeling during the national anthem.

In Trouble I've Seen, he addresses police brutality, mass incarceration, antiblack stereotypes, poverty, and everyday acts of racism by placing them in the larger framework of white supremacy.

«By them using their platform, they could bring a lot of attention to police brutality that many [athletes] have been able to ignore.»

Now, removed from Kaepernick, who is on the outside looking in, with his stance distorted by arguments cowardly trying to look away from the original issue — claiming he kneeled against things that he didn't — and with the spotlight pointed at Trump rather than police brutality, the NFL has decided to protest without really protesting anything.

While the protest started by Kaepernick aimed to combat systemic racism and police brutality, the second wave of solidarity in September came under the branding of «unity.»

Allegations of «brutality» from police and stewards in Barcelona made by Chelsea fans have resulted in the club making a complaint to UEFA.

Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality.

They had plenty of ammunition, from police brutality to acts of self - sacrifice inspired by Mohamed Bouazizi's example.

«When a demonstrator lost an eye through brutalities meted out to him by the Police and the Operations Commander of the Ghana Police service is on tape as having justified that, then really it may be a worrying phenomenon if indeed he took such position,» he said.

Nana Akufo - Addo was accompanied by Saratu Atta, his Executive Assistant, another victim of the police brutality at the demonstration; Eugene Arhin, Press Secretary; and Iddrisu Musah?

According to one attendee, Bratton said he stood by comments linking anti-police brutality protests to the assassination of two police officers in late December 2014.

The hashtag became, as one user called it, a «smashtag» as it was hijacked by people tweeting pictures of officers engaged in alleged police brutality, or, in one example, apparently frisking a dog.

Yes I am a family member of a victim of injustice, and if questionable police shootings, misconduct, and brutality were not investigated fully and fairly on a local level by Westchester County's top law enforcement officer why should the people of Westchester County or New York State believe that anything different will take place on an appellate level?

«It is clear that there was no fair and impartial investigation into the shooting and brutality since the defendant Mount Pleasant Police Department was assigned by District Attorney Janet DiFiore to lead the investigation into its own misconduct and brutality,» said Bonita Zelman, a lawyer representing Mr. Hinds and four other Pace students.

Members of the Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic & Asian Legislative Caucus on Wednesday at the state Capitol called for the appointment of a special prosecutor to handle cases of police brutality and deaths caused by police confrontations.

The poll found that by a 58 percent to 33 percent margin, New Yorkers would back giving Schneiderman the power of special prosecutor to probe other instances of police brutality after a grand jury chose to not indict a New York police officer in the chokehold death of Eric Garner.

Another interesting question the reporter could have asked is: how much money did NYC pay in each of the last couple of years for settlements and jury awards involving police brutality and / or threats of violence against citizens by the NYPD?

The presence of the civil rights leader who has led national marches against police brutality for decades and is seen by critics as reflexively anti-police rekindled a debate about his track record on public safety at a time when his ally, Mayor Bill de Blasio, is seeking to burnish his bonds with police officers, large numbers of whom turned their backs on him at two police funerals last December.

If were a victim of Police Brutality and you feel you was unjustly prosecuted by the Westchester County District Attorney Janet Difiore you can also file complaint against her office.

The murders came amid a series of anti police - brutality protests sparked by the deaths of Garner and Mike Brown in Ferguson, Mo. and Bratton said they were a «direct spinoff» of that movement.

And last December, officers Raphael Ramos and Wenjian Liu were executed in a patrol car in Brooklyn by a deranged man apparently seeking revenge for victims of police brutality.

People moved by headlines assembled Saturday in Albany and also Kingston observing a national day of protest in support of the people of Baltimore, calling for justice for Freddie Gray and all victims of police brutality.

She raised the ire last month of anti-police brutality activists by nixing a council vote on legislation requiring police to identify themselves via business cards in stops and notify those they search on their right to refuse.

To support their case — and to highlight the excessive level of police brutality faced by African Americans — the authors present novel data showing that, over the past 50 years, blacks have faced significantly greater risk than whites of being killed by police.

Slumdog Millionaire, a film so upbeat and colourful that, by the time you're relaying its infectious air of optimism to friends, you could forget that it features orphans, slaughter, organised crime, poverty, enslavement and police brutality.

Black Panther is helmed by African - American director Ryan Coogler, who's previously tackled race in Fruitvale Station (2013) that chronicled police brutality.

A very intense, raw and real look at police brutality and an event that was shaped by it.

Although this film focuses on one incident, the piece itself is inspired by the ongoing epidemic of race - related police brutality cases.

The continuation, through Warren, of the retribution against white brutality exacted by Django is offered as cathartic, and Tarantino's sincere commitment to fighting racism is welcome given the current tensions provoked by police killings of black citizens in the United States.

In its early sequences, and in the conflict between Luke and the sadistic chief played by Strother Martin that provided the film's most memorable line («What we've got here is failure to communicate»), the film feels like an unmistakable, generationally targeted indictment of police brutality.

After calling some police officers «murderers» in a rally protesting police brutality, Tarantino and his movie «The Hateful Eight» became the target of a boycott by police unions across the country.

With its dark humor and complicated characters and themes — a mother out to avenge her daughter's rape and murder, a suggestion of police brutality against black residents — «Three Billboards» made an early splash with critics and audiences at the Venice Film Festival in September and then at the Toronto International Film Festival in October, where it won the audience award and was hailed by some as one of the year's best.

Belabored and suffering from a hopelessly sluggish pace, Ned Kelly is less of a biopic than it is the portrait of a haughty outlaw, painting Kelly as a renegade, self - serving Robin Hood driven further into brutality by the overzealous persecution of the police.

On their way from the Midwest to New York City, they pick up a girl hobo played by Dorothy Coonan (Mrs. Wellman), and endure hardship, starvation, police brutality, rape on the train (by guard Ward Bond) and some particularly well - staged riots.

It's not a perfect film by any stretch, and one area where I certainly agree with detractors is how problems, particularly the treatment of rape victims and police brutality against people of color, are treated in the abstract.