Sentences with phrase «by victims of shootings»

Huge crowds are expected in Washington, D.C. Saturday, March 24 to take part in March for Our Lives, a rally initiated by the victims of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

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Barden is one of the co-founders of Sandy Hook Promise, an advocacy group started by some of the family members of the shooting victims.

Nicki Minaj summed up her frustration with Alton Sterling's case by posting the name of 14 other victims of police shootings, followed by the phrase «no conviction.»

Everyone who was on the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School campus during the Feb. 14 mass shootings will be eligible to receive a share of the victims» fund created by the Broward Education Foundation.

Gun control advocates, meanwhile, are motivated by more abstract notions of reducing gun violence — although, Goss noted, the victims of mass shootings and their families have begun putting a face on these policies.

Trump responded to the series of emotional stories from the survivors and parents of victims from the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School by pledging to get to work on school shootings «two minutes» after the listening session.

Instead, the Parkland shooting galvanized a movement for gun control — led by teenage activists, some of them classmates of the victims.

The bills proposed Friday by lawmakers would also create exemptions from the state's public - records law to protect the privacy of victims and provide money to raze and reconstruct the building where the shooting occurred.

In comparison, gun control advocates are motivated by more abstract notions of reducing gun violence — although, Goss noted, the victims of mass shootings and their families have begun putting a face on these policies by engaging more actively in advocacy work, which could make the gun control movement feel more relatable.

According to a 2017 analysis of fatal and nonfatal childhood firearm injuries compiled by researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, black children face the highest rates of firearm mortality — a difference largely driven by black youth being more likely to be shooting victims than children from other racial groups.

A former Highlandtown businessman just out of federal prison was identified as the victim fatally shot by masked men in a neighborhood barbershop Monday evening.

Though some of the victims were killed in car bombings after the ISIS terrorists detonated car bombs, many were shot dead in their homes or in the streets by snipers.

CNN: Lutheran pastor apologizes for praying in Newtown vigil A Lutheran pastor has apologized after being chastised by his denomination's leader for offering a prayer at an interfaith vigil for the victims of the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.

The Reverend Clementa Pinckney, who was a state senator and pastor of the Charleston church, was one of the victims of the June shooting by Dylan Roof.

David Berkowitz, AKA «Son of Sam» - The notorious serial killer dubbed by the media as «Son of Sam» stalked New York in 1976 shooting victims and leaving behind notes mocking the police.

Washington (CNN)-- A Lutheran pastor has apologized after being chastised by his denomination's leader for offering a prayer at an interfaith vigil for the victims of the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.

The shock and heartbreak over the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School have inspired Westboro Baptist Church to do what they do worst: jettison any semblance of humanity and decency by picketing the funerals of the victims.

The model was recently the victim of a breach of trust by a local photographer who sought to both physically and verbally abuse her whilst on a shoot (he then did not even bother to pay her for her modeling).

CNN: Driven by personal tragedy, man builds crosses for Aurora victims, thousands of others In a vacant lot across from the site of last week's movie theater shooting, 12 white crosses stand solemnly, their arms covered in messages of hope and the ground around them full of flowers.

I'm not talking here about the three tragic murders Rodger committed by stabbing before his driving and shooting spree; I speak now only to the families of the gunshot victims in Santa Barbara:

The winning design announced by Governor Andrew Cuomo at the end of Pride Month for the LGBT Memorial in Hudson River Park to «honor the LGBT community and the victims of the Orlando shooting» at the Pulse club in 2016 was met by an unusual amount of criticism, while staunchly defended by the members of the selection commission that recommended three designs as well as others who praised its «strength and depth.»

By Madina Toure Former Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords — the victim of a famous 2011 mass shooting — swung by City Hall to call on New Yorkers and their elected officials to «fight, fight, fight!&raquBy Madina Toure Former Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords — the victim of a famous 2011 mass shooting — swung by City Hall to call on New Yorkers and their elected officials to «fight, fight, fight!&raquby City Hall to call on New Yorkers and their elected officials to «fight, fight, fight!»

SPECTRUM NEWS VIDEO: Members of a local company that provides active shooter training are headed to Florida to meet with the families of victims impacted by the recent school shooting.

One of the dead victims was on probation and forbidden from being inside any establishment which serves alcohol; two of the eight who were shot had served state prison time on weapons or assault charges; five are convicted felons and six had been arrested by Buffalo police since 2008.

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?

When an assault weapon is used in a shooting, the number of victims who are killed increases by 63 percent, according to Nadler, who said there have been more than 8,000 incidents of gun violence in the U.S. so far in 2018.

The investigator, Manuel Gomez, has video footage appearing to show the victim of the shooting, Shawn Nardoni, saying he was falsely arrested and threatened with violence by a police officer who wanted him to identify Hernandez as the shooter.

I am further bolstered by the genuine joy expressed by U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand in her account of the awakening of her friend and colleague Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords during a visit to the shooting victim's hospital room.

By evening, all 17 victims of the mass shooting by a 19 - year - old student had been identifieBy evening, all 17 victims of the mass shooting by a 19 - year - old student had been identifieby a 19 - year - old student had been identified.

Andrea Stewart - Cousins defended Mayer, saying, «Unfortunately this is the double standard that women in the workplace face — you can stand up for victims of sexual harassment, as Shelley did, only to be shot down by men in higher - ranking positions, then you still get blamed for not doing enough.»

Scott, surrounded by families of the victims, recounted the grief visited on his state in the aftermath of the Valentine's Day carnage at Marjory Stoneman Douglas in Parkland and, in 2016, the shootings at Pulse nightclub in Orlando and Fort Lauderdale Airport.

Pence praised the heroic response by police and the resolve of the American people at a prayer service Saturday in Las Vegas before organizers released 58 white doves in memory of each victim killed in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

This week, the families of the Newtown shooting victims plan to be in Hartford, listening as lawyers lay out in state Supreme Court their case that the companies that manufactured and sold the military - style assault rifle used by the gunman bear responsibility for the attack in which 26 people, including 20 children, were killed.

The arrow shot, which was probably fatal, seems to have been launched from a great distance and took the victim by surprise, from which we may infer that it was an act of treachery.

He postulates that two factors may influence the outcome of a mass shooting event: training officers to recognize which mass shooters are most likely to commit suicide by their own hand or attempt «suicide by cop»; and providing officers with detailed information about the attack (such as the offender's number of weapons, number of victims killed, and decision to attack at an open commercial site, factory, or warehouse).

Sandy Hook parents Mark and Jackie Barden, who lost their youngest son, Daniel, in the shooting (and are also featured in Kim A. Snyder's more elegiac Sundance premiere, «Newtown»), are the first among many family members of gun - violence victims profiled by Soechtig and returning «Fed Up» narrator - host - exec producer Katie Couric.

Cases include a cult member's 1978 suicide, a 1998 murder of a missing 9 - year - old boy and a 1987 drive - by shooting victim.

It's not every director who can show three kids (including an infant wrapped in swaddling clothes) perforated by bullets without so much as flinching, but that's Cooper's M.O., refined over the three films since his relatively marshmallowy «Crazy Heart»: As in «Black Mass» before this, violence packs more punch if depicted matter - of - factly, which somehow registers as «realistic» these days (although one suspects that it would be far more horrifying if his victims suffered slow, agonizing deaths after being shot).

By making Arthur Shaw (Alan Alda), the victim of the titular heist, a Bernie Madoff - like shyster, the film gives its conventional gang - who - couldn't - shoot - straight story a cathartic populist charge.

The song is a tribute to the victims of the Orlando shooting and clearly was partially inspired by Miranda's Tony's speech in the wake of that tragedy.

In a way Almereyda's film, shot prior to most of the tech stocks going belly - up, anticipates the downswing: Its Wall Street is ghostly and devastated, full of glass tombs that scrape a dismal sky and inhabited by, among other Gloomy Guses, a Hamlet (Ethan Hawke) who's hollowed - out like so many victims of modern materialism and parental loss.

That movie also featured Jordan playing a black man who became a victim of his circumstances because of the color of his skin (the film is based on the 2009 shooting death of an unarmed Oscar Grant at the Fruitvale BART station in Oakland, California, by a police officer).

Shot through with political resonance — the screenplay was written by Carl Foreman, a victim of the Hollywood blacklist — High Noon reimagined the most quintessentially American genre as a moral testing ground for the individual conscience.

Besides an array of lyrical lines, the film feature shots of Father Doyle as he attends to his flock, including touching moments ranging from tearful memorial services for victims of drive - by shootings to a show of compassion for a coke - addicted prostitute who unknowingly propositions the celibate cleric with «Your place or mine?»

Notorious (R for nudity, drug use, graphic sexuality and pervasive profanity) Bio-pic about the rise and fall of Notorious B.I.G. (Jamal Woolard), aka Biggie Smalls, the Brooklyn born crack dealer - turned - gangsta rapper gunned down in a drive - by shooting in L.A. in 1997, the victim of the bloody East Coast - Coast West Coast hip - hop feud.

The dialogue of the anonymous confessor continues to outline what will be the framework within which the film will play out; in seven days, having spent their childhood being raped daily by a priest, the faceless victim will shoot Gleeson's priest, plainly because he, a good priest, being murdered will send a greater message.

Awareness and a knowledge that it can happen to you, says Nicole Hockley, founder and managing director of Sandy Hook Promise, an organization launched by family members of the victims of the 2012 shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

In the wake of school shootings and lawsuits brought against schools by victims of bullying, 11 state legislatures — California, Colorado, Georgia, Louisiana, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington — have mandated that schools take active steps to reduce bullying.

One by one, students displayed the names of the 17 victims of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, extinguishing a candle to honor each person lost.

Scott, surrounded by families of the victims, recounted the grief visited on his state in the aftermath of the Valentine's Day carnage at Marjory Stoneman Douglas in Parkland and, in 2016, the shootings at Pulse nightclub in Orlando and Fort Lauderdale Airport.