Sentences with phrase «indict white police»

When protests erupted in this community last year after the death of Michael Brown, and then later when a grand jury declined to indict the white police officer who shot the black 18 - year - old, Shawn Filer and Aniya Betts wanted to be part of the solution.

Mr. de Blasio rankled police unions and rank and file cops after he expressed sympathy for anti-police brutality protests that broke out after grand juries failing to indict white police officers in the deaths of black men in Staten Island and Ferguson, Mo..

While Mayor Bill de Blasio did not directly criticize the decision, Ms. Rose, Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito and other minority elected officials angrily denounced the outcome, echoing reaction that came after a grand jury decided not to indict a white police officer for shooting a black teenager in Ferguson, Mo..

A Staten Island grand jury declined on Wednesday to indict a white police officer in the death of Eric Garner, who died in July as officers attempted to arrest him for allegedly selling untaxed cigarettes.

After praising the NYPD for maintaining order during New York City - based protests following the news that a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri, did not indict a white police officer in the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager, de Blasio said there is «a great sensitivity» to ensuring emergency vehicles are not blocked during marches.

Mr. de Blasio urged the public not to «connect the dots» between the Gurley death and other incidents, like the Garner case and the uproar in Ferguson, Mo. after a grand jury failed to indict a white police officer for shooting to death a black teenager.

Two days after a Staten Island grand jury voted not to indict a white police officer in the death of Eric Garner, a spokesman for the family of Akai Gurley, a Brooklyn man shot and killed by a cop last month, called for the Brooklyn district attorney to charge the police officer with homicide.

The rally tonight, which lasted several hours and never seemed to attract more than 50 people at a time, was relatively subdued, a stark contrast to the violent protests that roiled Ferguson last week after a Missouri grand jury voted not to indict a white police officer for shooting to death the 18 - year - old Brown.

Matthew Smalls, a Staten Island lawyer, said months ago that he would run, in the wake of the Eric Garner case — in which a grand jury impaneled by Mr. Donovan opted not to indict a white police officer in the unarmed black man's death.

The gathering of several dozen residents, activists and organizations represented the second counter-protest to the waves of anti-police brutality marches that roiled the city after a Staten Island grand jury failed to indict a white police officer in the death of Eric Garner, a black man.

Donovan's first visit to the Capitol came shortly after some national Republicans expressed concern over his role in the case of Eric Garner, following a grand jury's decision not to indict a white police officer in Garner's death, a decision that earned national attention and touched off protests across New York City.

The attorney general asked for the appointment shortly after a grand jury decided not to indict a white police officer who applied an apparent chokehold that a medical examiner said killed Staten Islander Eric Garner, who is black.

The move comes in the wake of the decision by a Staten Island grand jury to not indict a white police officer in the chokehold death of an unarmed black man, Eric Garner whom police were trying to arrest for allegedly selling loose cigarettes.

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.

Mr. Schneiderman's proposal, coming days after a Staten Island grand jury failed to indict a white police officer in the death of Garner, a black man, was received warmly by many minority elected officials.

Despite the controversy Mr. Donovan courted in December when a grand jury voted not to indict a white police officer in the death of Garner, a black man, the district attorney is still relatively popular in the borough and with party insiders, sources say.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is undertaking one of the biggest challenges of his year - old mayoralty after a Staten Island grand jury declined to indict a white police officer in the death of an unarmed black man, Eric Garner.

The lack of an indictment, which came on the heels of a Missouri grand jury not indicting a white police in the shooting death of unarmed black teen Michael Brown, set off a wave of protests in New York City and across the country.

Not exact matches

The riots began after the official announcement that a grand jury had declined to indict a white Ferguson police officer for shooting an unarmed black teenager.

After a Staten Island grand jury failed to indict a white NYPD officer in the death of Garner, a black Staten Islander, last year, critics in political and academic circles charged that local district attorneys, who often work closely with the police to prosecute crimes, are too close to law enforcement to consistently bring charges against them when they run afoul of the law.

Just weeks after the three - year anniversary on the decision by a Westchester County Grand Jury not to indict White Plains Police Officer Anthony Carelli on the killing of Kenneth Chamberlain Sr, Westchester County Democratic Chairman Reginald Lafayette appeared on Total Faith Network and said he doesn't think Westchester County needs an Independent Prosecutor.

Not only has DA DiFiore failed to indict to the officers who killed his father, she also justified their racial actions by saying that White Plains Police calling his father the «N - word» (which should have classified it as a hate crime) was just a tactic to distract him.

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.

In rolling out the program in December — just days after a Staten Island grand jury decided not to indict a white officer in the chokehold death of an unarmed black man — NYPD commissioner Bill Bratton said the devices would alter police interactions.

The announcement at the police academy in Whitestone, Queens, came just hours before a grand jury on Staten Island decided not to indict a white NYPD officer in the chokehold death of Eric Garner.

Mr. Cuomo, reacting to the mass protests against police brutality that have convulsed the country since grand juries failed to indict police officers in the deaths of black men in Staten Island and Ferguson, Mo., argued that «today, sadly, too many people are questioning if the blindfold is still intact or does the justice system now see black and white or black and blue or rich and poor.»

They echoed Mr. Schneiderman's concerns and lamented the outcome of the Garner case, where a white police officer was not indicted despite placing Garner, who was black, in an apparent chokehold that many say led to his death in July.

It's a compelling idea (enough to sway a key ally played by Daniel Kaluuya), and a reminder that throughout the African diaspora, the black - white power balance remains as it is courtesy of Jim Crow practices designed to keep minorities in check: persistent segregation, broken drug laws, racially targeted policing, disproportionately high incarceration rates — all of which are identified and indicted by Coogler's truth - to - power script.

In a separate room, Gonzales - Day brought his subject up to date in works that insert characters from Run Up into photographs of the protest marches in Los Angeles that followed a grand jury's refusal to indict Darren Wilson, a white police officer, for fatally shooting Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014.