Sentences with phrase «by white police officers»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Just weeks after the three - year anniversary on the decision by a Westchester County Grand Jury not to indict White Plains Police Officer Anthony Carelli on the killing of Kenneth Chamberlain Sr, Westchester County Democratic Chairman Reginald Lafayette appeared on Total Faith Network and said he doesn't think Westchester County needs an Independent Prosecutor.

(White Plains, NY)-- Faced with family court facilities plagued by deteriorating building conditions that pose safety risks to Westchester families, residents, police officers and court personnel, the Westchester County Board of Legislators (BOL) pressed County Executive Robert P. Astorino's Administration again this week to stay on track with renovations and long - term solutions.

Not only has DA DiFiore failed to indict to the officers who killed his father, she also justified their racial actions by saying that White Plains Police calling his father the «N - word» (which should have classified it as a hate crime) was just a tactic to distract him.

The move comes in the wake of the decision by a Staten Island grand jury to not indict a white police officer in the chokehold death of an unarmed black man, Eric Garner whom police were trying to arrest for allegedly selling loose cigarettes.

Matthew Smalls, a Staten Island lawyer, said months ago that he would run, in the wake of the Eric Garner case — in which a grand jury impaneled by Mr. Donovan opted not to indict a white police officer in the unarmed black man's death.

Two days after a Staten Island grand jury voted not to indict a white police officer in the death of Eric Garner, a spokesman for the family of Akai Gurley, a Brooklyn man shot and killed by a cop last month, called for the Brooklyn district attorney to charge the police officer with homicide.

The city already allocated funds to enlarge the police force by some 1,300 officers last June, around the same time Trump launched his improbable bid for the White House.

Ramarley Graham, who lived in The Bronx with his grandmother, was shot to death by NYPD Officer Richard Haste in February after he was chased from White Plains Road and East 228th Street to his home nearby by police who were investigating a report of a drug deal.

Ramarley Graham, 18, was shot dead in The Bronx by NYPD officer Richard Haste in February after police who were investigating a report of a drug deal chased Graham from White Plains Road and East 228th Street to his home nearby.

Ramarley Graham, who lived in Wakefield with his grandmother, was shot to death by NYPD Officer Richard Haste in February after he was chased from White Plains Road and East 228th Street to his home nearby by police who were investigating a report of a drug deal.

In Fruitvale Station, he plays Oscar Grant, a 22 - year - old who, in the early morning hours of New Year's Day 2009, was fatally shot in the back while being restrained by white BART police officers at a transit station in Oakland, Calif..

Monsters And Men writer / director Reinaldo Marcus Green stopped by Deadline's Sundance Studio, along with cast members John David Washington, Kelvin Harrison Jr. and Anthony Ramos to speak about the film's perspective on the racial aftermath when a white police officer wrongfully shoots a neighborhood street hustler.

The movie, produced by Get Out director Jordan Peele, is about the real - life story of Ron Stallworth, the black police officer who went undercover in 1978 to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan — speaking on the phone to Klansmen and sending white officers in his place when face - to - face meetings were required.

Rules of Engagement) is a green, but very ambitious police officer who desires strongly to follow in his father's footsepts by becoming a detective lieutenant, which he attains by taking partial credit for the infamous Nite Owl murders, where three men barge into a diner and kill all of the inhabitants inside, including a former police officer named Stensland (Beckel, Blue Streak) Stensland's former partner is Bud White (Crowe, The Quick and the Dead), a rough - and - tumble cop as loyal as they come, but also willing to do the things that Exley is not, namely, to cross over the line of the law to see that justice is served.

Much more, of course, was involved in the shooting than the racial composition of the schools attended by Wilson and Brown, but it is hard to shake the feeling that a lack of contact and understanding — outside of confrontations — between white police officers and black citizens lies at the heart of this and too many other tragic encounters.

White with red stripes, the test car drew plenty of attention, especially from police officers who appeared to squeeze the trigger on their radar guns just a little harder when we drove by.

Many readers will recognize this as a variation on the still controversial 1987 Tawana Brawley case, in which a New York State teen found in a similar condition claimed to have been raped and abused by white men, including a police officer and prosecutor.

Danny Rakestraw, one of the few white officers to sympathize with and support the department's fledgling black police force, is further conflicted when his brother - in - law, Dale, rallies the Ku Klux Klan to «save» their neighborhood from further encroachment by black families.

The American artist Glenn Kaino recently visited Ferguson, Missouri — the town torn by protests after a white police officer killed Mike Brown, an unarmed black teenager, on 9 August — for a work he is due to unveil this weekend at his first solo show at the Kavi Gupta gallery in Chicago.

Other works featured in LIVESupport include «Church State,» a two - part sculpture comprised of ink - covered church pews mounted on wheels; «Ambulascope,» a downward facing telescope supported by a seven - foot tower of walking canes, which are marked with ink and adorned with Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs) of the spinal column; «Riot Gates,» a series of large - scale X-Ray images of the human skull mounted on security gates and surrounded by a border of ink - covered shoe tips, objects often used by the artist as tenuous representation of the body; «Role Play Drawings» a series of found black and white cards from the 1960s used for teaching young children, which Ward has altered using ink to mark out the key elements and reshape the narrative, which leaves the viewer to interpret the remaining psychological tension; and «Father and Sons,» a video filmed at Reverend Al Sharpton's National Action Network House of Justice, which comments on the anxiety and complex dialogue that African - American police officers are often faced with when dealing with young African - American teenagers.

Made in 1992, a year that saw widespread and painful rioting following the acquittal of white police officers in the beating of Rodney King, the work was dedicated by the artist to the people of South Central Los Angeles.