Sentences with phrase «killed by officers»

While the effort likely intended to make the city's officers more available to the Seattle residents, it backfired when its public affairs director Sgt. Sean Whitcomb used Twitch to address questions surrounding the death of Lyles, a pregnant woman shot and killed by officers in her home after reporting a burglary.

He says that some people could come to similar conclusions based on the history of police violence — blacks shot and killed by officers are more likely to be unarmed than whites shot and killed by officers — but this study starts «at the beginning of the interaction.»

Matt was killed by officers on Friday.

In July, she and three of her Lynx teammates gave a pregame press conference in which they spoke about police violence after Philando Castile and Alton Sterling were killed by officers.

When Finch walked out the door to see why the police had shown up, he was shot and killed by an officer.

Michael Brown was shot and killed a by officer Darren Wilson last summer.

Delrawn Smalls was killed by officer Wayne Isaacs after a road rage incident on July 4, prosecutors say.

Advocates had initially wanted Cuomo's executive order to apply to all cases when someone is killed by an officer.

Zoya and Elena's true parents were killed by an officer under Leo's command.

Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes Little, Brown • April 17 Rhodes joins the conversation surrounding police brutality and racial injustice with a story that follows a 12 - year - old boy named Jerome who is shot and killed by an officer who mistakes his toy gun for a real weapon.

Not exact matches

Officer's Killing Spurred Pursuit In Boston Attack, by Wendy Ruderman, Serge Kovaleski, and Michael Cooper, New York Times.

The deaths of Brown and Garner made national headlines, but according to a recent report by the FBI, there was an average of 96 cases per year, from 2006 to 2012, of a white police officer killing a black person.

Similar disparities affect Minneapolis, near the tiny city of Falcon Heights where Philando Castile was killed by a police officer during a traffic stop on July 6.

Emily Brock, a director at the Government Finance Officers Association, said if SALT deductions were killed by Congress, voters could revolt.

Authorities in Baton Rouge last week thwarted a planned attack on police officers days after the shooting of Alton Sterling, a 37 - year - old black man who was killed by police in an encounter that was largely captured on video and raised widespread concerns about the officers» actions.

There is 21 - year - old Howard University student Clifton Kinnie, who, in 2014, mobilized teenagers to organize against gun violence and register to vote after 18 - year - old Mike Brown was killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.

Coincidentally, the school resource officer who recommended that Cruz be «Baker Acted» was Scot Peterson — the same Broward Sheriff's Office deputy who resigned amid accusations he failed to respond to the shooting by staying outside the building where the killings occurred.

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.

Indirect responsibility for the My Lai killing of 347 civilians was not borne by anyone — from the high - ranking officials who learned of the massacre and took no punitive action to Captain Ernest Medina, Lieutenant William Calley's commanding officer.

Well, I imagine no officer or leader likes facing the fact that young men are killed by his orders, Patton - and - Lee types included.

Report author and SCIAF Policy Officer Jo O'Neill said: «Despite efforts to tackle irresponsible businesses by governments, human rights and environmental abuses continue to take place, and all over the world human rights defenders continue to be threatened and killed.

In the World Trade Center and near it there were 2 606 persons, including: 1 762 residents of New York 1 402 persons in Tower 1 674 residents of New Jersey 658 employees of Cantor Fitzgerald L.P. 614 persons in Tower 2 355 employees of Marsh Inc. 343 firefighters 175 employees of Aon Corporation 37 Port Authority police officers 23 police officers 2 paramedics 1 firefighter was killed by a man who jumped off the top floors

While two officers served short sentences in El Salvador, Montano and other high - level officials were never tried by Salvadoran authorities in the priests» killings.

They were shot and killed by police but not before seven people, including an officer, were hurt.

New footage from the scene where unarmed 12 - year - old Tamir Rice was shot and killed by police shows Rice's 14 - year - old sister running up minutes after he was shot, only to be knocked to the ground by police officers.

Wade was killed outside of the temple by police officers, one of whom sustained several gunshot wounds during the shootout.

It is thought the pastors cellmate could have been the one killed in the attack, which was allegedly carried out by a prison officer.

As The Post noted in a new analysis published last week, that means black Americans are 2.5 times as likely as white Americans to be shot and killed by police officers.

Jonathan Ferrell, a former football player at Florida A&M, was killed here by officer Randall Kerrick in 2013.

Kaepernick thought that unarmed and harmless minorities, black people especially, shouldn't be killed by the same police officers tasked with protecting them.

On July 9, four members of the Minnesota Lynx — a dynasty on par with the Warriors — held a pre-game press conference to talk about police violence in the wake of the killing of Philando Castile by a Minneapolis - area officer and Alton Sterling by two Baton Rouge, Louisiana, officers.

The team also wore t - shirts with «Change Starts With Us: Justice & Accountability» written on the front and the names of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile as well as the Dallas Police Department emblem on the back to honor and mourn the losses of two black men shot and killed by police and five officers killed on duty last week.

Sequel to the kidnapping and killing of the officer, the IGP IRT deployed the Technical and Human Intelligence assets of the Force which led to the arrest of a Prison Warder named Abdullahi Adamu, who is a close associate of one of the prime suspects who was using the Tecno mobile phone stolen from the slain Colonel, a statement by the Force Public Relations Officer, ACP Olabisi Kolawole disofficer, the IGP IRT deployed the Technical and Human Intelligence assets of the Force which led to the arrest of a Prison Warder named Abdullahi Adamu, who is a close associate of one of the prime suspects who was using the Tecno mobile phone stolen from the slain Colonel, a statement by the Force Public Relations Officer, ACP Olabisi Kolawole disOfficer, ACP Olabisi Kolawole disclosed.

The deceased officer, Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama of the 5th Infantry Batallion (5BN) at Burma Camp in Accra who was the commanding officer of troops on detachment duties in the area, was attacked and killed by a mob that mistook him for an armed robber.

The Command denied killing the innocent citizens by one of the men of the Command, saying the victim was among the touts that have been preventing men and officers of the Command from doing their constitutional responsibilities in the state.

Information reaching us indicates a police patrol team at Kintampo has allegedly shot and killed a fellow police officer by mistake, in a shootout with arm robbers.

The family of an off - duty parole officer who was shot and killed by a Canandaigua police officer says it plans to file a wrongful death lawsuit.

The mother of Ramarley Graham, an unarmed teenager shot and killed by an NYPD officer in 2012, said at a rally today that she will campaign against NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio as he seeks re-election this fall.

The mother of Ramarley Graham, the teen killed by police officers in front of his family in 2012, accused the Mayor of being disrespectful in a Daily News op - ed and critiqued him for not doing enough to reform the NYPD.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has appointed the state attorney general as a temporary special prosecutor to over see cases where a civilian is killed by a police officer.

Brian Skinner, a Shenendehowa elementary school teacher, was shot and killed by police Friday night during an encounter that left a young officer, Stephen Janik, hospitalized with a gunshot wound to his abdomen.

The family of Akai Gurley, the unarmed man shot and killed in a Brooklyn housing - project stairwell by a police officer last year, has filed a wrongful - death lawsuit against New York City.

In a letter sent to Cuomo on Monday, Atty. Gen. Eric Schneiderman asked for the power to independently investigate the killing of any unarmed civilian by a police officer in the state, effectively removing local district attorneys from the equation.

«Very credible intelligence reaching us has it that a lot of the armed robbery and killing of our hardworking police officers is being done by militant goons associated with the NPP», the NDC National Chairman alleged.

Addressing the grand jury decision to not indict the police officer who caused Garner's death, Sharpton «connected the dots» of other cases of African Americans or Latinos killed by police, from Anthony Baez and Abner Louima to Michael Brown and Akai Gurley, urging action.

Rowley was spat on by protestors and had missiles thrown at him last week, as he made a statement outside the trial which cleared an unnamed Met officer of unlawfully killing Duggan.

The 18 - year - old was shot and killed by the NYPD in his home after an officer heard Mr. Graham was carrying a gun.

Councilwoman Inez Barron today called on President Barack Obama to spearhead a Department of Justice investigation into the death of Ramarley Graham, a Bronx teen killed by a police officer in 2012.

Ramarley Graham was an unarmed Bronx teen shot and killed in his family's apartment by a police officer last year.

Constance Malcolm, whose unarmed teenage son Ramarley Graham was killed in 2012 by an officer that is still on the NYPD payroll, said it is a «disrespect» to families of police violence victims.