Sentences with phrase «hands of police officers»

Fifty - one % said they found news stories about the deaths of people at the hands of police officers, or news about ambush attacks on police in three states, to be among the year's most important news events.

The powerful video portrayed, with frank brutality, the October 2014 death of 17 - year - old Laquan McDonald at the hands of a police officer who shot the teenager 16 times.

According to The Wall Street Journal, body cameras have become a $ 1 billion industry since the deaths of Brown, Eric Garner, and other unarmed black civilians at the hands of police officers.

Assemblyman Tom Abinanti is taking state AG Eric Schneiderman's call for temporary power to investigate unarmed civilian deaths at the hands of police officers one step further.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) earlier this year signed an executive order requiring special prosecutors to review the cases of any deaths at the hands of police officers.

It alleges that Mr. Recchia failed to condemn to the black leader's abandoned plan to lead a march across the Verrazano Bridge in protest of Staten Islander Eric Garner's death at the hands of police officers earlier this year.

With pressure mounting from families whose loved ones have died at the hands of a police officer, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said on Tuesday that he was preparing to issue an executive order naming the state attorney general as a special prosecutor for police - related civilian deaths.

Gwen Carr, mother of Eric Garner, attends a rally calling on the U.S. Attorney to investigate the death of Ramarley Graham at the hands of police officers on Jan. 12, 2016.

Last year, I listened as a mixed group of students, some of whom had memories of traumatic experiences at the hands of police officers and others who had police officers in their families, shared responses to the death of Michael Brown.

Milwaukee sorely needs those reforms, as does the rest of Wisconsin.Walker does deserve credit for signing into a requirement that deaths at the hand of police officers are to be handled by independent investigators.

Dana Schutz depicted the open casket of Emmett Till, building the lynched black teenager's face up with paint and then gashing it on the canvas, and Henry Taylor painted the death of Philando Castile at the hands of police officer.

[A] person may defend another only where that person has witnessed a police officer's unlawful and excessive use of force, and only where the individual being «rescued» is facing imminent and serious bodily harm at the hands of the police officer.

A Colorado family received a $ 262,500 settlement in 2016 for the death of their dog at the hands of a police officer.

We assist and represent people every day who have experienced discrimination at the hands of police officers.»

But an argument that Taser use can decreases injuries only hold water if there is not an overuse of Tasers once they are put in the hands of every police officer.

The youth alleged that he had been the subject of threats of violence at the hands of the police officer.