Sentences with phrase «into police brutality»

NEW YORK CITY — In 1985, Gov. Mario Cuomo commissioned an investigation into police brutality after an NYPD sergeant tortured a suspect in Queens using a stun gun, igniting a firestorm about race relations and policing.

The new administration appears ready to stop Obama - era investigations into police brutality.

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@JohnQuest — with the prevelance of cellphone cameras and quick posting to sites like youtube these days and all the police brutality and other unlawful activity videos going up on a daily basis involving police, I would be surprised if the percentage of police force that are corrupt, underqualified, discriminatory and just plain stupid is not only a lot higher than 5.0 % but also extends into the higher - ups of the system that are harder to pin - point.

More than 100 people were arrested and 21 police officers were injured during protests against police brutality in Minnesota on Saturday night going into Sunday morning.

The decision caused a split in the Jenkins - led Players Coalition, which had seemed for much of the season like a unified bloc of a few dozen players committed to pressuring the NFL into maintaining players» ability to protest and helping to combat police brutality and racial injustice.

Yet, he is a player who has spoken vocally about police brutality, been subject to it himself and made huge investments into the community through his foundation — all things that take more time, effort, and energy than a three - sentence statement:

What began as a localised protest over a shopping centre and the demolition of the Gezi Park in Istanbul's central Taksim Square turned into a nationwide conflagration in response to the inciting rhetoric of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the unfettered police brutality unleashed upon peaceful protestors.

Campaigners who want a public inquiry into the «brutality of policing» at the 1984 Orgreave miners» picket have staged a demonstration in London ahead of a meeting with Home Secretary Amber Rudd.

A spokesman for the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign (OTJC) said they hope meeting Rudd would «reinforce the case for a public inquiry into the brutality of the policing of pickets».

«It is clear that there was no fair and impartial investigation into the shooting and brutality since the defendant Mount Pleasant Police Department was assigned by District Attorney Janet DiFiore to lead the investigation into its own misconduct and brutality,» said Bonita Zelman, a lawyer representing Mr. Hinds and four other Pace students.

An inquiry into alleged police brutality at the 1984 Orgreave miners» picket is set to go ahead in October.

Garner's death brought into focus a central point of Mr. de Blasio's campaign: the increasing tensions between communities of color and the police over stop - and - frisk and instances of alleged brutality, which he vowed to ease.

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.

In the wake of several incidents of police brutality towards black people, the Black Lives Matter movement has evolved into an international phenomenon.

by Walter Chaw Exhilarating until it turns into a «Behind the Music» special, F. Gary Gray's N.W.A. biopic Straight Outta Compton (hereafter Compton) is most affecting for just how timely are its self - aggrandizing tales of police brutality and racial profiling.

Early into the film's terrific first hour, Chris and Rose run afoul a bullying bigot of a state trooper — an offhand encounter that drips with the implicit (and sadly headline - topical) threat of police brutality.

His powerful yet delicate sculpture reveals his profound respect for the process of making art, which can transform the mundane and unattractive into something of great beauty, which in turn, often references subjects of great ugliness, including racism and police brutality.

Fast forward seven years later to 2017 and Bradford becomes the first African American artist to represent the United States at the Venice Biennale when he turned the U.S. Pavilion into an incisive commentary on police brutality, slavery and the current state of politics.

It was during this period of intense civil unrest and police brutality that Edwards's powerful welded steel sculptures, David Hammons's mythic body prints and John Outterbridge's constrained - yet - chaotic assemblages came into view.

Robinson arranges the chair legs into a whip - like structure that references the social constructs, from slavery to police brutality, that have long perpetuated hierarchies and stereotypes.

Though the unrest roiling Turkey began as an environmental protest, the police brutality in response and the prime minister's imperious reaction have brought hundreds of thousands out into the streets to protest the government's social policies, urban - planning agenda, assaults on press freedom, and heavy - handed approach to its critics — to name just a few of the grievances.