Sentences with phrase «fatal police encounter»

The attorney general's investigation marked Schneiderman's first pursuit of a sitting district attorney for the handling of a fatal police encounter with an unarmed civilian.

The two killings, on top of fatal police encounters elsewhere in the country, helped spark protests nationwide, calling for law enforcement officials to be held accountable for killing unarmed civilians.

Under an executive order by Governor Andrew Cuomo, the state Attorney General's office has the authority to investigate only fatal police encounters.

The order gave Schneiderman the power to conduct independent investigations in fatal police encounters when, «in his opinion, there is a significant question as to whether the civilian was armed and dangerous at the time of his death.»

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Cuomo signed the executive order last July in the wake of a series of controversial and fatal encounters between police and unarmed civilians in New York and across the nation.

Cuomo signed the order following a series of controversial fatal encounters between police and unarmed civilians in New York and across the nation.

Rensselaer County District Attorney Joel Abelove has asked the state district attorneys association to join him in challenging the constitutionality of Cuomo's executive order giving the state attorney general the authority to intervene in cases involving fatal encounters between police and unarmed civilians.

Today, reacting to a spate of fatal encounters between police and people of color in New York and in Ferguson, Mo., de Blasio said the incidents showed that «something is wrong in this country that's going unaddressed.»

The grand jury review took place after the attorney general's office notified Abelove it was reviewing the case under a gubernatorial order giving Schneiderman's office jurisdiction in cases involving fatal encounters between police and unarmed civilians.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman recently announced he was convening a grand jury in his investigation of a fatal encounter involving Troy police in 2016.

The organization, of which Schneiderman had been a member before his resignation, has had a prickly relationship with Cuomo over the governor's 2015 executive order that gave Schneiderman the authority to intervene as a special prosecutor in cases involving fatal encounters between police and unarmed civilians.

Cuomo had signed the 2015 order following a series of controversial fatal encounters between police and unarmed civilians in New York and across the nation.

Cuomo signed the order in July 2015 in the wake of a series of controversial and fatal encounters between police and unarmed civilians in New York and across the nation.

He provided funding for pre-K, pushed for a $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage and empowered the AG in fatal police - civilian encounters.

At the time of his fatal encounter with police, he was living in a shelter run by a church group in Baton Rouge, LA and making his living selling music CDs.

Cuomo signed the order following a series of controversial and fatal encounters between police and unarmed civilians in New York and across the nation.

After last year's fatal police shooting of a man in Ferguson, Missouri, and after a man died in an apparent police chokehold in Staten Island, New York, the district attorney in Orange County has announced a protocol for officer - involved deadly - force encounters.