Sentences with phrase «for police brutality»

Pattis has defended capital murder cases and won federal civil rights verdicts for police brutality, false arrest, discrimination, malicious prosecution, and violations of rights including several million dollar discrimination verdicts.

The December 5, 2017 settlement in the killing of Mharloun Saycon, a mentally ill Fililpino man, is among the largest in Long Beach history for a police brutality case.

Bratton's earlier record on community relations as NYPD commissioner in the 1990s under then - Mayor Rudy Giuliani was mixed, as critics cited his embrace of the broken windows theory and the implemenation of an aggressive zero - tolerance policy as an opening for police brutality.

Not exact matches

Following the ugliness of the 2015 Charleston church massacre, continuing unchecked police brutality against blacks, and the 2017 Charlottesville fiasco, Black Panther offers a hopeful message for the future of black America.

After Trump said in September that players should be fired for protesting, several players and others within the NFL began kneeling on the sidelines as the anthem played at games, continuing the demonstration started in 2016 by Colin Kaepernick, a San Francisco 49ers quarterback at the time, to protest racial inequality and police brutality.

Wait for those types of opportunities, like when Ebola fears spiked LAKE from 7 to 30 back to 12 in a month, police brutality controversy spiked DGLY from 3 to 33 to 15 in a month and most recently billionaire Carl Icahn's investment in VLTC spiked the stock from 2 to 21 back down to 8 in a month

Concerns about professional football players and whether they should be fired for silently protesting racial inequality and police brutality during the playing of the Star - Spangled Banner by taking a knee.

The brutality of the police in the south being shown on TV helped win sympathy for the civil rights movement in the sixties.

There is often a great deal of talk about opposing a sense of victimhood and entitlement — which most people in my neighborhood would probably agree with — but we must recognize that people are still being victimized by police brutality and other forms of trauma; they are entitled to both the basic necessities of life as well as opportunities to provide those and more for themselves.

This selective «colorblindness» is a mighty convenient approach to race in America for white people, for it allows us to paper over America's troubled (and decidedly anti-Christian) history, to discount racism as a thing of the past for which we are no longer responsible, and to ignore persistent racial injustices like mass incarceration, police brutality, voting rights issues, white flight, and economic inequality, all while consistently benefiting from an oppressive system we claim we can not even see.

In fact, if I had to pick one book from the list to send each one of you, it would be this one, as it proves the perfect primer for understanding how mass incarceration, police brutality, socioeconomic oppression, and racial prejudice affect people of color today.

(For those who need a reminder, the beating of Rodney King was one of the most infamous cases of police brutality of the»90s.)

There's something for everyone, whether you can relate to an overbearing in - law, quirky coworkers, deciding whether to take paternity leave, sharing a heated discussion about the election or the difficulty of explaining police brutality to your children.

On one side of the coin the new trend for artists to talk about issues such as faith as well as mental health, police brutality, racism, body image and fatherlessness is a refreshing shift from the materialistic, consumerdriven rhymes which hip - hop has become notorious for.

We countenance cries of vengeance, policies of brutality, thirst for capital punishment, police terror, and slogans to justify our advantage.

Show Me Democracy tells the story of seven St. Louis college students who are battling injustice, raising awareness about police brutality and fighting for real reform in their community and within the local education system.

To those who exchanged the cross of Christ for a lynching tree or police brutality, Jesus says get out.

The decision caused a split in the Jenkins - led Players Coalition, which had seemed for much of the season like a unified bloc of a few dozen players committed to pressuring the NFL into maintaining players» ability to protest and helping to combat police brutality and racial injustice.

Kaepernick began a movement in the NFL during the 2016 preseason when he began to sit and later kneeled during the national anthem as a way to show support for people of color who are being oppressed in the United States, and to take a stand against police brutality.

Many people wondered why Kaepernick, who in the 2016 NFL season began to kneel for the national anthem in protest of social injustice and police brutality, had since not continued to strongly voice his opinions.

Like if there are no police brutality reports for 3 months will you stand?

Bills owner Terry Pegula complimented Anquan Boldin for his message about police brutality, but called the receiver «Antwan.»

It ignores discussions about police brutality, glosses over anything that happened before the last 10 days, and lands with something that's an insult to the players and people in sports trying to fight for legitimate change in America.

Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality.

A spokesman for the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign (OTJC) said they hope meeting Rudd would «reinforce the case for a public inquiry into the brutality of the policing of pickets».

The Rev. Al Sharpton said he has known the former aide to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and SEIU 1199 worker for seven years, adding: «I have always fought for victims whether its police brutality, immigration, or poverty.

Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, the 2016 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, on Tuesday, September 22, paid a visit to Justice Adzakumah, the 36 - year old young man who lost one of his eyes as a result of police brutality in the September 16 demonstration for a new voters?

Black men of all ages and economic status can tell you story after story of being pulled over for «Driving While Black», and we've all heard more and more about the brutality that black Americans have received at the hands of police.

Kaminsky's campaign criticized a video on the website of McGrath's law firm, Sullivan Papain Block McGrath & Cannavo of Garden City, in which a partner says the firm can get «substantive» verdicts for plaintiffs in police brutality and excessive force cases.

Elected officials and anti-police brutality advocates say recording police activity may be a First Amendment right, but that it's time for the city to put that in writing.

Jazz Hayden, founder of AllThingsHarlem.com, a group that fights against police brutality and films police misconduct, said Mark - Viverito's request for 1,000 more police officers when she first became speaker was a poor decision given the problems communities of color face with the police.

«I wanted to show my support for the people that have been killed due to racism and police brutality,» said protestor Dale Scofield.

Garner's last words became a rallying cry for protests against police brutality across the country.

Senate majority leader Dean Skelos, a Republican from Long Island, indicated that a Cuomo plan for an independent monitor of police brutality cases would also be dropped.

Members of the Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic & Asian Legislative Caucus on Wednesday at the state Capitol called for the appointment of a special prosecutor to handle cases of police brutality and deaths caused by police confrontations.

I'm all for solving the police brutality problem (which exists outside of NYC, too).

Another interesting question the reporter could have asked is: how much money did NYC pay in each of the last couple of years for settlements and jury awards involving police brutality and / or threats of violence against citizens by the NYPD?

For example, this week the Indonesian President is in town for G20 talking to Gordon Brown and Cameron, about «investment»... in West Papua police brutality is routine, across Indonesia mines and palm oil for biofuel are displacing local people and leading to environmental destruction... London, West Papua, its all part of the same big proceFor example, this week the Indonesian President is in town for G20 talking to Gordon Brown and Cameron, about «investment»... in West Papua police brutality is routine, across Indonesia mines and palm oil for biofuel are displacing local people and leading to environmental destruction... London, West Papua, its all part of the same big procefor G20 talking to Gordon Brown and Cameron, about «investment»... in West Papua police brutality is routine, across Indonesia mines and palm oil for biofuel are displacing local people and leading to environmental destruction... London, West Papua, its all part of the same big procefor biofuel are displacing local people and leading to environmental destruction... London, West Papua, its all part of the same big process.

DO N'T let your self be caught alone with no witnesses in case of any brutality or false arrests which the watervliet police are known for.

Anthonine Pierre, a spokeswoman for Communities United for Police Reform and lead organizer at Brooklyn Movement Center said Tuesday the speaker's announcement was «beyond disappointing,» given the state of police brutality and movements to reform policing around the coPolice Reform and lead organizer at Brooklyn Movement Center said Tuesday the speaker's announcement was «beyond disappointing,» given the state of police brutality and movements to reform policing around the copolice brutality and movements to reform policing around the country.

The coalition includes anti-police brutality group Why Accountability, Queens Neighborhoods United, the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, El Grito de Sunset Park, the Police Reform Organizing Project, New Yorkers Against Bratton, Mothers Cry for Justice and Families for Freedom.

«The frequent abuses in people's most common everyday interactions with police that go unaccounted for are what perpetuate and lead to police brutality and killings.

The presence of the civil rights leader who has led national marches against police brutality for decades and is seen by critics as reflexively anti-police rekindled a debate about his track record on public safety at a time when his ally, Mayor Bill de Blasio, is seeking to burnish his bonds with police officers, large numbers of whom turned their backs on him at two police funerals last December.

While a stringer for the Nairobi Law Monthly, he reported on allegations of police brutality along the border with Sudan.

For their part, activists against police abuse and brutality say the need for real reform can not be discountFor their part, activists against police abuse and brutality say the need for real reform can not be discountfor real reform can not be discounted.

«The people of Brooklyn have voted for their District Attorney to keep them safe from all crimes, including those of police brutality.

Thousands of banner - waving protesters poured across the Brooklyn Bridge yesterday for a Manhattan rally condemning the killing of street peddler Amadou Diallo and police brutality.

Syracuse, NY — The head of the Syracuse agency that's supposed to investigate police misconduct was fired Friday for deficiencies that go back years — and particularly for ignoring a subpoena in a police brutality trial two months ago.

And last December, officers Raphael Ramos and Wenjian Liu were executed in a patrol car in Brooklyn by a deranged man apparently seeking revenge for victims of police brutality.

People moved by headlines assembled Saturday in Albany and also Kingston observing a national day of protest in support of the people of Baltimore, calling for justice for Freddie Gray and all victims of police brutality.