Sentences with phrase «felt police targeted»
The legislation will also give people more latitude to sue in state court if they felt police targeted them because of their race, sexual orientation or certain other factors.
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In fact, targets of investigations often are not interviewed, especially when the police feel they have a strong case.
A key problem has been that communities themselves will not report or aid police investigations if they feel unduly and unfairly targeted.
These were writ large all over the audio and visual footage of the riots — verbalisations of entitlement to take what one wants, anti-social beliefs that the police are legitimate targets for violent assault, feelings of exhilaration and excitement from destroying with impunity.
Meanwhile motoring group the AA's head of roads policy Jack Cousens said that more targeted policing is needed to tackle numbers of «hard - core drink drivers», who are frequent offenders but may feel that they will never be caught.
Just as police union leaders and their backers view Mr. de Blasio's desire to address the grievances of minorities who feel unfairly targeted by police as a thinly - disguised pretext to undermine law enforcement, they blamed Mr. Dinkins for undercutting police in an environment plagued with far more crime and unrest.
«I'm preaching that the police are our community partners and we must work with them for the betterment of all, but it is an uphill battle when they feel police are not out there to protect them, but rather to target them,» Williams said.
Labour MP Chris Bryant told Channel 4 News he felt the police should have done more to investigate people like himself, who had discovered their messages had been targeted.
«Some of our police officers are making race - based discretionary decisions on who they're going to arrest for low - level marijuana possession,» said Leroy Gadsden, the president of a branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Jamaica, Queens, and the chairman of the criminal justice committee for the statewide N.A.A.C.P. «Therefore, of course, if you're a young, black male, even a female, you're going to feel that you're being targeted when you notice that your white counterparts are not being arrested for the same thing.»
In its early sequences, and in the conflict between Luke and the sadistic chief played by Strother Martin that provided the film's most memorable line («What we've got here is failure to communicate»), the film feels like an unmistakable, generationally targeted indictment of police brutality.