Sentences with phrase «killed by law enforcement»

A man suspected of fatally shooting an off - duty police officer in a small Kentucky city was killed by law enforcement officials in Tennessee, authorities said Friday.
It's why he didn't want to be killed by law enforcement.
The trailer reminds us of the night unarmed African - American teenagers were shot and killed by law enforcement officers.
Matt was killed by law enforcement on June 27, while Sweat was caught by State Police days later.
Matt was ultimately killed by law enforcement several weeks after escaping from the prison while hiding out in a remote section of the vast North Country woods.
A man suspected of fatally shooting an off - duty police officer in a small Kentucky city was killed by law enforcement officials in Tennessee, authorities said Friday.
She suggested the killing, which involved what many have labeled a prohibited chokehold in the effort to subdue the massive, asthmatic Mr. Garner for selling untaxed cigarettes, was part of pattern of racial killings by law enforcement across America.

Not exact matches

The attack at the Google - owned video service's headquarters in San Bruno, California Tuesday was allegedly carried out by Nasim Najafi Aghdam, who killed herself after the shooting, according to law enforcement officials.
Gunmen paid by the leaders of the Cali ring sometimes flew into New York or Miami to carry out a killing, law enforcement officials said.
He was killed this morning by law enforcement.
We haven't even talked about law enforcement yet and the effect that systemic racial profiling and killings by police have on black communities.
Suffolk police, the FBI and other law enforcement agencies responded to suspected gang killings by beefing up their presence in Central Islip, Brentwood and other Long Island communities where MS - 13 is active.
The number of law enforcement officers killed by firearms in the US jumped by 56 percent this year and included 15 ambush assaults, according to a new report.
The Suffolk Legislature's Public Safety Committee effectively killed a bill that would have given it oversight over money seized by county law enforcement agencies after opposition surfaced from Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone and incoming District Attorney Timothy Sini.
The list of the people planned for the extrajudicial killings by the Administration can be compared to a similar, so - called «Magnitsky list» which was designed to exert pressure on foreign law enforcement, politicians and judiciary, especially the judges.
Commuters will see more law enforcement officers from New Jersey and New York in regional transit hubs under an agreement renewed by Govs. Chris Christie and Andrew Cuomo almost one week after 14 people were killed in a terrorist shooting in San Bernardino, Calif..
Since last football season, dozens of athletes have demonstrated during the national anthem, either by kneeling or raising a clenched fist in the air, to protest the killing of black civilians by law enforcement officers.
Twenty - six people were killed and about 20 more injured when a gunman — identified by law enforcement sources as Devin Patrick Kelley, 26 — opened fire during morning services at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Tex., about 30 miles east of San Antonio.
Former and current law enforcement chiefs and other experts predicted that Sunday's shooting would alter the training at many police forces to include more of a focus on the threat posed by high - rise snipers or others who kill from long distances.
The moment Nikolas Cruz was taken into custody by local law enforcement after killing 17 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Broward County, Fla..
The police boss described as untrue, comments by some notable Nigerians that the law enforcement agents had yet to apprehend any herdsmen in connection with the killings in the state.
Ajemian denies allegations by Cahill that the AG has supported legislation requiring law enforcement to shoot to wound, not kill, a measure most police groups oppose.
The two inmates escaped in 2015, leading to a weeks - long manhunt that used more than 1,300 law enforcement officers and cost more than $ 23 million; Matt was killed by police three weeks later, and Sweat was shot and captured two days after that near the Canadian border.
The authors propose that all law enforcement - related deaths — including people killed by police as well as police killed in the line of duty — be treated not just as criminal data but as a «notifiable condition,» and that they be reported to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) by public health and medical professionals and published on a weekly basis, as are a host of other conditions ranging from poisonings to pertussis to polio.
Between 1999 and 2013 in the United States, between 279 (in 2000) to 507 (in 2012) people were killed each year by legal intervention or law enforcement, other than by legal execution.
THE ELITE SQUAD director's new vision of the future of law - enforcement sees The Killing «s Joel Kinnaman don the metallic super suit in the role previously played by the great Peter Weller.
Led by a bigoted cop named Krauss (Will Poulter), who evidently consider his badge a license to kill, law enforcement officers swarm the motel and round up all the guests — several young black men and two young white women who've taken up residence there to dodge the violence on the streets.
In Kathryn Bigelow's drama, a seemingly endless night in 1967 Detroit unfolds, showing what is known as the Algiers Motel Incident, in which three unarmed black teenagers were shot and killed by a group of law enforcement officers.
Unfolding on a long, hot July night in 1967 Detroit, it depicts what is known as the Algiers Motel Incident (the title of a well - known book by John Hersey about that night), in which three unarmed black teenagers were shot and killed by a group of law enforcement officers.
The first thing the article reports, by way of an anonymous law enforcement veteran, is also the most disturbing to me: a 7ft long, 4ft wide spreadsheet detailing various other killing sprees.
MAGAZINE In the May issue of Modern Painters, artist Kambui Olujimi begins a series of dialogues with fellow artists about race, police brutality, and their experiences with law enforcement in the wake of the steady stream of national news stories about unarmed black men and youth being killed by police.
In recent times his work has focused on excessive force claims against local law enforcement, including his recent representation of the family of John Geer who was shot and killed by Fairfax County Police in August 2013.
The two cases involved similar facts: both women were killed by their husband after a pattern of physical abuse, and both women sought assistance several times from law - enforcement agencies and courts.
In the year since a gunman killed five people at the Fort Lauderdale airport, local government and law enforcement officials have made efforts to address vulnerabilities exposed by the Jan. 6 shooting and the chaos that ensued.
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