Sentences with phrase «deaths of unarmed civilians at»

Headlines about the shooting deaths of unarmed civilians at the hands of police are seemingly never - ending, and Jay Coles is engaging with this subject matter in his powerful, necessary and hype - worthy YA debut, Tyler Johnson Was Here.

The proposal falls short of calls by Attorney General Eric Schneiderman that he be given power to investigate the deaths of unarmed civilians at the hands of police.

NEW YORK — Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman released the following statement June 23, on Governor Cuomo's announcement that he would appoint the Attorney General's office to investigate deaths of unarmed civilians at the hands of the police:

Because Thevenin was not carrying a weapon, the case could have fallen under a relatively new governor's order, empowering the attorney general to review any death of an unarmed civilian at the hands of police.

MANHATTAN — Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is asking Gov. Andrew Cuomo for the power to investigate the death of unarmed civilians at the hands of police in order to address a «deep crisis of confidence in some of the fundamental elements of our criminal justice system.»

Not exact matches

According to The Wall Street Journal, body cameras have become a $ 1 billion industry since the deaths of Brown, Eric Garner, and other unarmed black civilians at the hands of police officers.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued an executive order last year that authorized Schneiderman to investigate cases where police killed unarmed civilians and cases where «there is a significant question as to whether the civilian was armed and dangerous at the time of his or her death.»

The latter plaque recognized the governor for signing an executive order last June that made state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman the special prosecutor for all cases where a police officer kills a possibly unarmed civilian, which Mr. Sharpton called «the only national model» for handling deaths at the hands of local law enforcement.

Assemblyman Tom Abinanti is taking state AG Eric Schneiderman's call for temporary power to investigate unarmed civilian deaths at the hands of police officers one step further.

As Democrats focus on deaths of unarmed black civilians in police incidents, the death of a Mount Vernon woman was referenced at the convention.

Cuomo's order, issued in the wake of the national uproar over last summer's deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., and Eric Garner in Staten Island, hands the responsibility for the investigation of unarmed deaths of civilians at the hands of police to the attorney general's office, which would also handle any resulting prosecutions that emerge.