Sentences with phrase «from police brutality»

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While an independent watchdog disclosed that 640 people had died from police brutality or in police custody in South Africa.

They had plenty of ammunition, from police brutality to acts of self - sacrifice inspired by Mohamed Bouazizi's example.

You said i was posting these stats to distract people from police brutality even though they were in direct response to the top 2 comments on the thread.

2,000 veterans are scheduled to arrive in North Dakota to establish what they call a «human shield» to protect the thousands of peaceful Water Protectors from police brutality.

Not exact matches

Just a few years ago, public condemnations from him of police brutality and overall systemic racism in the country were few and far between, with Jay's frustrations and reflections over his tough childhood limited mostly to his music, including «Politics as Usual» from his debut studio album Reasonable Doubt.

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

Whatever the figures, police brutality and draconian court judgments are reliably reported from Hartford to Atlanta to Los Angeles.

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.

The personal reflections of multi-millionaire and media mogul Tyler Perry and Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. demonstrate that even money, education, and a realized American Dream did not keep them safe from racial profiling and police brutality.

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.

The league has had one concern from the moment Colin Kaepernick's protest of police brutality and inequality started: the overall impact on its bottom line.

Now, removed from Kaepernick, who is on the outside looking in, with his stance distorted by arguments cowardly trying to look away from the original issue — claiming he kneeled against things that he didn't — and with the spotlight pointed at Trump rather than police brutality, the NFL has decided to protest without really protesting anything.

Players will still be able to use their platform to protest police brutality and racial oppression without fear of punishment from the league.

Chelsea have issued a complaint to UEFA after some of their fans alleged they were subjected to «brutality» from stewards and police at their Champions League match in Barcelona.

Allegations of «brutality» from police and stewards in Barcelona made by Chelsea fans have resulted in the club making a complaint to UEFA.

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.

Zellnor provided over 600 hours of pro bono service to immigrants seeking asylum, victims of police brutality and illegal stop - and - frisks, special education students not receiving services from the Department of Education, and victims of domestic violence.

The charges against Mubarak are gruesome: it is alleged that he ordered tortures and authorised the brutalities of the secret police, that he sent out snipers to shoot and kill innocent and unarmed protestors during the January - February revolution, and that he conducted corruption on a grand scale, taking millions from the state coffers through a dodgy deal to supply gas.

We heard stories of violence of protestors and the violence of police; I heard a story that a group of protestors had tied a police officer to a chair and dropped him from a bridge in retaliation to police brutality (I have never been able to substantiate this story).

Ari Paul argues that police unions deserve not solidarity from other city unions, but rather, healthy antagonism — public sector workers like teachers should take a forceful stance against police brutality.

«If you can't trust me and my 61 other colleagues in the state to handle police brutality cases, then take them all from us,» Mr. Thompson told radio host Brian Lehrer on WNYC this morning.

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.

From every corner of the US there are daily reports of police brutality and misbehavior.

Organizers are busing in potentially thousands of protesters from other states — including from high - crime urban areas such as Newark — to attend Saturday's march against police brutality.

Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Manhattan Sunday, demanding an end to police brutality as they marched from Times Square to Union Square.

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

Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Manhattan yesterday, demanding an end to police brutality as they marched from Times Square to Union Square.

Even among many of the most elite enclaves of blackness today, power is uniquely vulnerable and fragile, and there are as of yet no suits of any cost that will stop black youth from the ravages of police brutality the world over.

More than that, though, he and Cole have also manufactured the MCU's most explicitly political film, the pair's story talking about issues of race, protectionism, humanitarianism, police brutality, political fascism and immigration policy that comes alive as if it was pulled from today's most recent headlines.

But the result is a film that, for all its emotional power, is strangely disengaged from the cultural and systemic forces that led to police brutality in 1967 and continue to do so today.

Belabored and suffering from a hopelessly sluggish pace, Ned Kelly is less of a biopic than it is the portrait of a haughty outlaw, painting Kelly as a renegade, self - serving Robin Hood driven further into brutality by the overzealous persecution of the police.

«Detroit» examines the 1967 riots that nearly destroyed a city, but the specific focus here is police brutality at a local area hotel that isn't too far from today's headlines.

On their way from the Midwest to New York City, they pick up a girl hobo played by Dorothy Coonan (Mrs. Wellman), and endure hardship, starvation, police brutality, rape on the train (by guard Ward Bond) and some particularly well - staged riots.

From the freshly relevant immigration issues of Children of Men to the police brutality that launches the new Netflix series Seven Seconds, the British actress seeks out projects that tackle complex social issues.

Straight Outta Compton shows the highs and lows of the band's success from their excess of wealth and popularity to police brutality and censorship from the government.

The court said it would use a police - brutality case from Oklahoma to re-examine the issue of under what circumstances local governments can be held liable when one of their employees violates a person's constitutional rights.

From mass shootings to gun violence, to police brutality, gun control and steps within educational institutions are a must.

After Justyce McAllister, at the top of his prep - school class, is unaccountably arrested and an innocent victim of police brutality, he seeks solace and answers from the teachings of Martin Luther King Jr. in this raw look at racial inequality in America, made even more gripping by Graham's stellar narration.

This is a timely exploration of racial bias and police brutality from a teen's perspective.

From the beginning, the cofounders were clear that their goal is larger than a focus on police brutality.

This hegemonic way of brutality which is approached by those who are in police departments must be eradicated from its roots.

New mortgages were up 26 % in the resurgent Maryland city located an hour outside the nation's capital, which continues to bounce back from years of high unemployment and last year's much publicized protests against police brutality.

Simpson told me the nails were symbolic and could be enumerating anything, «from the minutiae of one's day - to - day life and deadlines, or the way that this past couple of years have been the counting of deaths by police violence or police brutality or gun violence.»

This year, at Ben Brown Fine Arts in London, he mounted a solo exhibition titled «Make America Great Again»; and at Night Gallery in Los Angeles, he presented a body of work using imagery sourced from a rejected 1968 Black Panther coloring book to explore institutionalized racism and police brutality in the United States.

With Loray Mistik (Mystic Thunder), Papaloko released Ti Moun Yo in 1998, a collection of politically inflected tunes addressing issues ranging from the plight of children in Haiti to police brutality against black men in the United States.

From Black Hebrews preaching on 125th Street in Harlem to media images of police brutality toward people of color, emblems of collective memory and personal history coalesce in Abney's brushstrokes.

In the series of works on paper Tell Me Your Thoughts on Police Brutality Miss «Spank Me Harder», 2015, Kara Walker conflates different eras, idioms and attitudes to explore racism, its symbols and legacy from the American Civil War to very recent killings and assaults that have fuelled the Black Lives Matter campaign.

For another video in the show, Kline worked with David Meadvin, a former speechwriter for Barack Obama and Harry Reid, on an imagined Obama speech about a variety of topics including police brutality and surveillance — the kind of rallying cry the public would have expected from the Obama of 2008 that has since been muted by so much politics.