Sentences with phrase «how white police»

Ferguson went into a series of riots in protest of how white police officers treat black men in their city.

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I once tweeted something like, «As a white man I'm not always sure how to respond to instances of police violence against black men.

The video comes after several other shootings of unarmed black men by white police officers, and has drawn outrage online for how police treated Harris, who died shortly after at the hospital.

MANHATTAN — The City Council wants the NYPD Inspector General to investigate how police track and monitor allegations of abuse following the decision of a Staten Island grand jury to not indict a white police officer in the chokehold death of an unarmed black man, Eric Garner.

Weeks earlier, when a grand jury decided not to indict a white officer in the chokehold death of Eric Garner, de Blasio told a crowd on Staten Island that he'd had to train his bi-racial teenage son Dante how to interact with police for his own safety.

It also shows just how little the industry seems to care about the critical sentiment that has built up against Martin McDonagh's film in recent months, much of it directed specifically at Rockwell's Dixon, an ill - tempered white police officer with a fondness for beating up black suspects.

The film shows the Point of View of a young white drug dealer in Tokyo who is killed by the police and spends the length of the film floating around time and space, seeing how his life and death has affected those around him.

It can't be overstated how important hair is for black and mixed race people; frizzy hair is something that sets us apart from other children and adults - there have been many disputes over «work appropriate» black hair; there's the ever - present annoyance of white people wanting to touch it or police it - so the shots of Bianca's hair aren't insignificant.

Pam White, a police officer at the time of a car bomb explosion, that killed three of her colleagues, talks about how the incident affected her.

He criticized that many polices from Common Core to the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans doesn't really demonstrate how to move beyond typical instruction.

Look, I understand wanting to show up and support, but white people need to understand that this symbolic act of raising your hands in a position of surrender is meant to illustrate how black people are violently targeted by police because of their race.

How then - with a black community demanding justice for their dead, a pacifist sheriff (with a divinity degree, no less) under pressure from the county commissioner, a SWAT team, a gang of white supremacist bikers, a trigger happy SERT squad leader, a couple of Molotov cocktails and a Norwegian police chief who is certain her brother is innocent - how will this not end up in a bloodbaHow then - with a black community demanding justice for their dead, a pacifist sheriff (with a divinity degree, no less) under pressure from the county commissioner, a SWAT team, a gang of white supremacist bikers, a trigger happy SERT squad leader, a couple of Molotov cocktails and a Norwegian police chief who is certain her brother is innocent - how will this not end up in a bloodbahow will this not end up in a bloodbath?

Wall text lets you know that this refers to Bill Cosby's Fat Albert character — and thus addresses the rise and fall of his career — but also acknowledges that the piece stands as an uncomfortable reminder of how we are «confronted almost daily» with news of African Americans being killed by white police officers who typically go unpunished.

The panel painting in the main gallery, Untitled (2017), addresses the topic of violence, with each panel making note of how violence begets violence, ending with two white police officers — both red in the face, as if about to pounce into action — standing above a sign reading «And - Niggers.»

Its also striking how elusive the great white is even for very experienced researchers — without the help of spotter planes and environmental police boats to keep onlookers at a distance, the tagging would very likely not have been successful.

If I am a Black man told to be extremely measured and careful in my expression of anger for fear of police brutality and racial profiling, and I pair with a White woman who is frequently exploding in rage, I may feel an unimaginably complex range of emotions with no idea how to express any of them.