Sentences with phrase «handle police brutality»

Criminal justice issues are expected to figure prominently this legislative session as Cuomo has suggested he plans to recommend changing the grand jury process as well as create a special prosecutor to handle police brutality cases.

Kenneth Thompson, the Brooklyn district attorney, blasted a request to appoint a special prosecutor in Eric Garner - like cases as «unworkable,» continuing his unusually outspoken defense of district attorneys and how they handle police brutality cases.

«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.

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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.

Though a sizable swath of critics and audiences have praised the film, it's garnered some vociferous criticism for offering an oblivious outsider's perspective on the American Midwest (McDonagh is Irish), and it's particularly bad in how it handles issues of racism and police brutality.

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