Sentences with phrase «by white police»

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.

Brown was killed by Wilson in an altercation last year, which began the most recent national conversation about young black men being shot by white police officers.

Secondly, what we see above is that the shooting or abuse of unarmed black men by white police officers, which is routine in the United States, has been conflated with the actions of a single black man whose big brain had gone haywire.

I live in St. Louis, less than 20 miles from the unrest following the August 9 fatal shooting by a white police officer of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager.

Wall text lets you know that this refers to Bill Cosby's Fat Albert character — and thus addresses the rise and fall of his career — but also acknowledges that the piece stands as an uncomfortable reminder of how we are «confronted almost daily» with news of African Americans being killed by white police officers who typically go unpunished.

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.

The most recent case to raise the issue of racial discrimination in the United States has been the Ferguson, Missouri shooting of an unarmed young black man, Mike Brown, by a white police officer.

A year after the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, an 18 - year - old black man, by a white police officer touched off protests that echoed nationwide, Davis spoke with Education Week Staff Writer Denisa R. Superville about his still - developing plans to address inequity and bias in the district.

A national debate on race was triggered last year when a black teenager was killed by a white police officer in nearby Ferguson.

It's the story of Oscar Grant, an unarmed black man who was shot in the back at point - blank range by a white police officer in Oakland while returning from San Francisco on New Year's Eve in 2008.

Fruitvale Station (Unrated) Bittersweet biopic recounting the serendipitous events which transpired during the final hours in the life of Oscar Grant (Michael B. Jordan), a young black man shot in the back on New Year's day by a white police officer while being detained on an Oakland train platform.

The details of the incident are painfully similar to those of Michael Brown's killing in Ferguson: an unarmed black male killed by a white police officer, who was not charged with a crime or disciplined in any significant way after the incident.

Detained after a fight broke out on a train car, the unarmed Grant was shot in the back by a white police officer in front of dozens of witnesses taking cell phone videos of the incident.

The recent killing of two police officers has only inflamed the rift that has grown exponentially worse since Garner, a 43 - year - old black father of six from Stapleton, was killed by a white police officer in Tompkinsville.

Democratic 2016 frontrunner Hillary Clinton supports a federal review of the Chicago Police Department following the shooting death of a black teenager by a white police officer.

A Cleveland grand jury declined to bring charges in the death of Tamir Rice, a black youth with a toy gun who was shot by a white police officer 13 months ago.

«The world saw an African - American man in Staten Island die,» Cuomo said, specifically referring to Eric Garner, the Staten Island man who died after being placed in a chokehold while he was arrested by a white police officer.

Federal prosecutors began presenting evidence to a grand jury in Brooklyn in the death of Garner, an unarmed black man who died after being placed in a chokehold by a white police officer in Staten Island in July 2014, according to a person briefed on the matter.

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.

More than half of the names listed were shot by white police.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

To get to the U.S. Attorney's office, a visitor must wind his way through a phalanx of blue police barricades, stop by a kiosk manned by a U.S. marshal, enter a giant white tent with police and metal detectors, and proceed to a bulletproof visitors desk, replete with armed guards.

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.

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

And African - American men are far more likely to be stopped and searched by police, charged with crimes and sentenced to longer prison terms than white men convicted of the same offenses.

Preliminary rituals of Bible - reading (by the Commander to his household) preserve «bits of broken symbolism left over from the time before» (p. 60)-- bits that also appear on police vans (the Winged Eye), in uniforms (Handmaids wear red habits and stiff white blinders), in common speech (their standard farewell is «Under His Eye») and military orders (Guardians of the Faith watch everywhere, outranked by Angel forces).

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.

The report found that a black driver who was pulled over was twice as likely to be searched by police as a white driver, even though searches of white drivers were more likely to turn up drugs or illegal weapons.

So when I see Brown's corpse amid reports that he was shot by a representative of both the historic (white) and vocational (police) power structure of our country, I hope you will find it more than understandable if I cry foul.

They were spoken by a white student who was waving a baton — similar to the kind a police officer might carry.

White privilege is being able to lawyer up when arrested by the police.

It's a «Breaking Bad» coincidence: A real - life meth cook named Walter White is wanted by police in Alabama.

People, black or white, who rob stores and then attack the police will be possibly be killed by the police.

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.

We're introduced to Dom and his little sister, Mia (Jordana Brewster), who run a beat - up lunch counter when they're not drag racing through the streets of L.A. Undercover police officer Brian (Paul Walker), sent to investigate a string of truck robberies that Dom may or may not be involved in, is immediately distracted by Mia, who serves him tuna sandwiches on white bread with the crusts cut off.

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.

Shortly thereafter he was arrested at an otherwise all - white South African Olympic Committee meeting «by two members of the secret police who actually came out of a cupboard in the wall.»

Newspapers reports that he racially abused a member of staff by saying «f ---- white b ----» in German, at which point airport security and police were called.

White powder spilled out of an envelope as it was being opened by an employee on the state office campus this morning, State Police and city fire officials said.

At issue is Malliotakis's response to the unrest in Virginia that led to the death of a counter protester and two State Police officers following a rally and demonstration by groups of white supremacists.

The BBC have also failed to report on the biggest news story to hit South Yorkshire since the failure of the media, police, and local authorities to report on the mass rape of white girls by predominantly Pakistani Muslims, and BBC failure in tackling the sexual abuse within its own organisation.

SilentHunter, Some of the differences are that a newspaper is publishing an account and a dossier; that this is going to an independent complaints commission which the police do not control; that both supporters as well as opponents of the government will ask questions about this - in parliament, on blogs, and in many other places - no doubt pushing for an inquest with a jury, and be pushing for broader changes in policing to ensure its consistency with the human rights legislation we now have (such as those being advocated by Stuart White here on Next Left).

Note also that «white privilege» doesn't mean that no white person has ever been mistreated by police, or that no black person has ever been treated well, it just means (on this subject) that in general, white American have a different relationship with law enforcement than black Americans do.

One in particular is son of Kenneth Chamberlain Sr who was killed by the White Plains Police Department while answering a call when Chamberlain inadvertently trigger his Life Aid medical alert necklace, while he was sleeping, four years ago.

«If a white man were being gunned down by police, we would have passed this bill three months ago,» said Senator Kevin Parker, a Democrat from Brooklyn.

In a boiling decade when the civil rights movement was in full swing and police were clashing with African - Americans across the nation, Lindsay believed the NYPD needed a Civilian Complaint Review Board to serve as a check on their power and show the public, particularly minorities, that a white police force could be held accountable by unbiased people outside the department.

Mr. Schneiderman's proposal, coming days after a Staten Island grand jury failed to indict a white police officer in the death of Garner, a black man, was received warmly by many minority elected officials.

«There is something profoundly wrong when African - American men are still far more likely to be stopped and searched by police, charged with crimes and sentenced to longer prison terms than are meted out to their white counterparts.»