Sentences with phrase «case of any black person»

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.

He went on to use the specifics of Mill's case to paint a picture of injustice in the criminal justice system at large, including how black people are disproportionately imprisoned for probation or parole violations.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP)-- Four white people are facing charges in the deaths of two black men whose bodies were found dismembered and chained to cinder blocks in an Oklahoma City pond, but the prosecutor handling the case said Thursday the killings are not believed to be racially motivated.

The study, by the National Registry of Exonerations, reviewed cases that happened over the last 30 years throughout the country and found that in addition to black people being wrongfully convicted, it took significantly longer for them to be exonerated than it did any other group, with black people having to wait an average of three years longer.

Echoing decades of anecdotal evidence, a new study of about 2,000 cases of exoneration found that black people are extremely more likely to be wrongfully committed of a crime.

The review found that that played a role in 79 percent of wrongfully convicted sexual assault cases against black people versus only 51 percent of cases against white people.

Churches can use black theology to help people overcome oppressive images of the past and present — in some cases, paradoxically, white images that have been financed and constructed by blacks.

It became clear that the undercover officer had been sent to rid the town of young black people whom they deemed problematic, and the evidence suggested that he had faked many cases to put money in his own pocket.

Only two presidents have overcome these desiderata (John Kennedy and Barack Obama), and they have run against their religion (in the case of Kennedy) and their race (in the case of Obama), reassuring the American people that they weren't really all that Catholic or all that black — that they were Americans first, and members of their religious or racial communities second.

In both cases, civil rights could be — and were — denied to homosexuals and black persons because they failed to meet the culture's definition of human «spirit,» meaning a reasonable and sexually self - controlled person.

In this case, a black person could not eat a lunch counter, use the same bathroom or water fountain as someon white, ride at the back of the bus or stand - up if asked, attend the same church as a white peron, inter-marry, could not go into a store if asked to stay out, etc..

Certain stereotypes about black people have led to laws regarding [the policing and monitoring of] black people (the same has been the case for Hispanics).

«Most people don't realize that in the»80s and»90s Gentile had an impressive record as a prosecutor in the Queens D.A.'s office,» he said, pointing in particular to the now - councilman's prominent case against three white St. John's University lacrosse players accused of sexually assaulting a black classmate in 1990.

«The sentiment continues to boomerang throughout Mount Vernon, and in many other Black communities across the country, that we must continue to question and insist on independent investigations when people die while in police custody, especially in the case of Mrs. Raynette Turner, the fifth African - American woman in the U.S. to die in police custody within the past month.

«I was impressed with what Stephon's brother Stevante said that how proud he was of Sacramento, of his city, how people turned out and made this case a national one and brought attention because I think too often, our elected leaders, they will talk about things when it's a lot of children in a school, but when it's young black men of color who are being shot by the police unarmed... I think if we're gonna say black lives matter, we have to mean it, and we have to implement change,» she continued.

The findings show that people who belong to stigmatized groups — in this case, White women and Latino and Black men — view prejudice as an indication of an underlying mindset oriented around hierarchy.

HIV can affect anyone, but gay and bisexual men are particularly vulnerable, accounting for more than two - thirds of all newly diagnosed cases in the U.S. Black and Hispanic people are disproportionately affected.

These people have slim but strong bodies, and their heads are more elongated than in the case of the typical African Blacks.

As a case in point, the Black people can come across others of their community by joining websites for Blacks, while the Asians can do the same by joining the sites meant for that community.

So then they will direct their animosity towards people like me, dismissing me as a «special case» by saying, «Well, she's thin,» or in the case of another friend, «Well, she's mixed,» or «She couldn't get a black man,» etc..

Beyond Braff at the helm, Going in Style is scripted by Theodore Melfi, the recently Oscar - nominated writer / director behind Hidden Figures, which similarly followed a trio of undervalued people — in that case, three brilliant - but - overlooked black female NASA scientists — and found a way to make its dramatic hamminess (mostly) work to its own advantage.

Through interviews with the people involved in the case, Ford tries to get a deeper understanding of what happened to his brother, a black man who was murdered in 1992 in a dispute with several white men well after the men were involved in an accident with William Ford, Jr. (Yance Ford's brother).

It's not as good as Gettysburg, largely because it spends too much tme of the God part: trying to demonstrate who religious the Southern generals were, attempting to make the case that they really were good people, something I could almost believe if these same people hadn't done everything they could to kill thousands of people in the name of preserving their right to enslave black people.

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In this case, it shifted toward the highly professional, sincere, phantasmagoric work of a man who loves Creature From the Black Lagoon more than the people who made that schlocky Universal monster movie from the 1950s.

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Young people under age 25, mainly impoverished blacks, were among the first to begin rioting on the streets of South - Central Los Angeles following the verdict in the Rodney G. King beating case, representing the leading edge of a violent wave that within hours brought rioters of all ages and racial and ethnic backgrounds out across the city, local observers said last week.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos's characterization of our country's historically black colleges and universities as a case study in the efficacy of «choice» offended a great many people who rightfully trace the roots of HBCU's to a heritage of racism rather than entrepreneurism.

I am convinced that it is because Vallas operates on the basis of the Supreme Court decision in the Dred Scott case: «Black people have no rights that Whites are bound to respect.»

When GoodeReader first interviewed McMillan in 2011, he was still adamant that he wrote this book to simply make sure people learned about the horrific events that took place in this case of white - on - black crime in Mississippi, but also to learn that in at least this one instance, people stepped up and did the right thing, ensuring that justice was served against the men involved.

Some of the recent comments posted about The Bone Tree: Agent Kaiser says, «I believe the Bureau has a moral duty to the people of this parish — the black people, mainly, to close the cases we failed to solve back in the 1960s.»

Their nutrient value is fortified — particularly in the case of the books featuring the African American sleuths Ezekiel «Easy» Rawlins and Fearless Jones, both set in Los Angeles in the 1950s — by layers of insight into race relations in a time when a black detective's life was never in so much danger as when he stepped into a bar full of white people.

In the case of Belize in 1969, the presence of the Black Caribs just 36 miles south of Belize City, a people who had succeeded in preserving African culture and religion, gave the Creole leaders of UBAD an opportunity to reconnect with their African ancestral roots.

In case you have your computer sitting a bit further away than most people who lengthy cable can be connected to a small black box while the wireless dongle is plugged in at the other end, thus letting you place the dongle anywhere within a 3ft radius of your computer for better signal strength.

In the case of Black Desert's pets (only one of several sources of efficiency buffs from the game's cash shop), people who shell out the cash will have these advantages from day one, and in the hundreds or thousands of hours it takes everyone else to catch up, that advantage is going to just continue stacking up.

The human being is PACKED full of black swans — just think about the last case when somebody blew himself up and killed 50 people or found another creative and unprecedented way to do damage.

Also, the more that you can do to show that this case might crack an entire ring of people involved in a black market in stolen cell phones might make it more attractive to law enforcement.

Pieters, who is known for his anti-racism activism, won a similar case three years ago when Ontario's top court upheld a tribunal finding of racial discrimination after he and two other black people with him were asked for ID in the lawyers» lounge of a courthouse in Brampton, Ont.

The uncontradicted evidence of the police officers in this case is that most of the people in the immediate neighbourhood in which Mr. Allison was found were black.

They say stuff about him hating black people and, really, what's the probative value of that in a case where the defendant had no apparent motive other than racial animus?

In this case, petitioner made a timely objection to the prosecutor's removal of all black persons on the venire.

«Criminal responsibility is no longer black and white (if it ever was); various laws now discriminate various levels of responsibility and in any case responsibility is not a characteristic of a person, it is attributed to them», explains Bernard.

One of the promises of evidence and dispute - resolution automation technologies like blockchain is that lawyers can focus on truly controversial cases that advance the law such as liability for self - driving car accidents or the right of governments to put people on secret black lists.

In February 2016, reporters recorded a jury of 11 white people and one brown man hearing the case of a 25 - year - old Black male.

That's the opportunity to name drop, or better yet, see if that person is willing to take a copy of your resume and pass it along to the hiring manager or the recruiter who's in charge of that position, because then you're bypassing that electronic gatekeeper, or the big black hole that everyone's scared about, and allowed to get on to the hiring manager so that you have a better shot at getting that job, or at least getting an interview, so to your point, you can make your case in person or on the phone.

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EARLE3407 Old Dobbin Road, Montgomery, Alabama 36116 - 1903Home Phone: [phone] Cell Phone: [phone] Fax: [phone] E-mail: [email protected] position managing legal discovery and document review with opportunity to assist attorneys with civil litigationBAR ADMISSIONAlabama State Bar, 1999LAW - RELATED EXPERIENCELaw Firm, AlabamaResearch Attorney for Special Projects, Mass Torts Department, November 2001 — February 2008 • Managed Multi-District Litigation (MDL) Document Depository (September 2002 to February 2008) o Reviewed more than 1 million pages of evidentiary documents for litigation purposes and for inclusion in electronic databaseso Coordinated document review assignments with attorneys at local depository and at other sites across the USo Retrieved, reviewed and coded documents in Concordance and Summation legal databaseso Prepared memoranda and spreadsheets providing detailed analysis of discovery materials • Aided attorneys and support staff with processing and preparation of personal injury claims and litigationo Conducted legal research and drafted pleadingso Conducted supplementary online research for additional documents and information pertinent to litigationo Assisted with preparation of correspondence to clients and referring attorneyso Contacted clients for additional information needed in case preparation, litigation, and potential settlementso Prepared and input case intakes and referrals into databaseLaw School, AlabamaStudent Intern, Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program (ADAP), August 1996 — June 1997 • Participated in law school clinical program under third - year law student practice rule (as authorized by Alabama Supreme Court) o Assisted attorneys and advocates in cases involving mentally ill patients confined to state mental health facilitieso Interviewed clients in person (at state facilities) and over the phoneo Worked with clients, attorneys, and social workers to investigate and resolve issues concerning involuntary confinement and treatmento Aided in legal research on an appellate brief submitted to the U. 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Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (ruling granted in favor of our client) Faculty Research Assistant for Library Services, Bounds Law Library, March 1996 — June 1997 • Prepared research and teaching materials for law school faculty; worked 20 hours per week while matriculating 10 - 15 hours per semester) o Investigated copyright issues related to procuring and reproducing texts for academic useo Conducted legal research using WESTLAW, LEXIS and the InternetADDITIONAL RELEVANT EXPERIENCEManufacturing Company (MC), Montgomery, AlabamaAdministrative Assistant and Cost Analyst, Materials Purchasing Department, April 1999 — September 2001 • Assisted materials buyers in negotiating and preparing commodities contracts between raw materials suppliers and MC for manufacturing plants in the US and Mexicoo Assisted Legal Department at MC's corporate headquarters with coordination and preparation of documents for litigationo Notified and educated suppliers about MC's freight - on - board policy and its corresponding Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) provisions; result was the reduction of freight claims for both the company and its supplierso Prepared contracts and purchase orders for raw materials and capital projects involving plant maintenanceo Solicited price quotations from current vendors and established Excel spreadsheet format which simplified quote submission process and allowed MC to track and compare usage volumes and costs over timeo Prepared and analyzed cost reports used by materials buyers and production planners in purchasing decisions, including cost reductions, materials consolidation, and selection of vendorso Acted as liaison between vendors and the Purchasing, Transportation and Accounting Departments on issues concerning inbound freight, commercial carriers, and payment terms for commodities, resulting in reductions in freight costs and greater payment discounts for raw materialso Established online databases and printed directories for the Purchasing Department, allowing buyers to have easier and faster access to current vendor informationo Completed Year 2000 (Y2K) compliance project, which involved data collection and communication with MC's past, present, and potential materials suppliers and service providersNot - For - Profit Organization, AlabamaAdministrative Assistant, Combined Federal Campaign, September 1998 — January 1999 • Aided Campaign Director with 1998 Federal Campaigns (CFCs) in City 1 and City 2, which together generated nearly $ 700,000 for more than 1,000 local, national and international charitieso Prepared weekly reports on donations using WordPerfect, Microsoft Word, Excel and dBase IVo Wrote script for Talent Showcase at City 1's 1998 CFC Kickoffo Assisted Director with merger of the City 1 and City 2 CFCs in 1999Regional Bank, AlabamaAdministrative Assistant, Year 2000 (Y2K) Department, March — June 1998 • Worked with Vice President of Corporate Projects on short - term project for the bank's Y2K Departmento Analyzed and processed data on Y2K readiness for all branches of Bank throughout the southeastern USo Organized meetings for personnel of Banko Communicated with vendors of computer hardware, software, and office equipment to request information on Y2K complianceo Prepared compliance files for Federal Reserve auditso Prepared in - house memoranda and reports using Microsoft Word and ExcelRecord / Music Promotion Company, AlabamaRecord Pool Co-Founder; Office Manager, September 1990 — December 1991 • Co-founded record pool to enhance promotion of music in Alabama and the southeastern USo Procured and distributed records from major and independent labels for club, radio and mobile disc jockeyso Coordinated jointly sponsored promotional events with record companies, radio stations and clubso Designed, wrote, and published bi-weekly reports and brochures to inform the music industry of the progress and popularity of music and performers in the region, with specific focus on the Alabama music sceneMajor University, AlabamaGraduate Research Assistant, AUM Department of Marketing, June 1989 — August 1990 • Worked 13 - 20 hours per week as a research assistant to Marketing faculty while carrying a full course load in the MBA programo Analyzed consumer surveys used in academic researcho Assisted Conference Chairperson with coordination for Atlantic Marketing Association (AMA) annual meeting (October 1989) o Co-authored five - year index and classification of AMA Proceedings (published Fall 1991) EDUCATIONLaw School, AlabamaJuris Doctor (JD), 1997 • Scholarshipso Seybourn H. 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