Sentences with phrase «like police shootings»

Like all police shootings, the Tompkins case would be presented to a grand jury before any official determination was made regarding justification.

«Let the message go out that we will not be shaken by this,» said Warnock, who has been outspoken about recent race - based acts of violence like police shootings and the Charleston shooting.

Not exact matches

To humanely probe the physics of gunshot wounds, and ultimately help police solve crimes and doctors save lives, researchers shoot bullets into inert, flesh - like substances.

There is no consensus on what these drills should look like, but several states, including Missouri, require shooting simulations with police officers.

For black Parkland students like 17 - year - old Kai Koerber, calls to increase police presence on campus and other security measures proposed after the February mass shooting have only made them more anxious.

When Michael Brown was shot by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson on August 9, it looked like Ferguson, Missouri, was going to serve as just one more stop on the national tour of this classic drama.

In an interview with Australia's Channel Nine, the country's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said, «How can a woman out in the street in her pajamas seeking assistance from the police be shot like that?

In lower Manhattan, those in the crowd carried signs saying, «Lift all boats, not just yachts,» and also referenced other issues, like immigration reform and police shootings.

The money, Cuomo said, would pay for security cameras, interior and exterior lighting, and gunfire detection technology, that could help protect residents like those who live in the East River Houses, where Tyrone Howard, the man suspected of shooting the police officer, Randolph Holder, lived and sold drugs.

In response to the civil unrest that followed high - profile police shootings in places like Ferguson, Missouri, police departments across the country are adjusting their training protocols.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and Police Commissioner Bill Bratton called the shooting an «accident,» a characterization rejected by the Gurley family and local elected officials like Congressman Hakeem Jeffries and Assemblyman - elect Charles Barron.

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.

Seahawks» receiver Doug Baldwin has been protesting police shootings of unarmed - black men like a lot of NFL players but, as he sits down to tell his story to Jon Wertheim, he's also meeting with officials who can help to change the situation.

Cut to Ronnie ordering his subordinates around with over-the-top lingo out of movies like Commando and Delta Force; cut to slow - motion shots of the mall cop crew, squinting and posing in badass formations that emphasize their dorky self - importance; cut to Ronnie's bombastic antics constantly getting in the way of police detective Harrison (Ray Liotta), who highlights the hero's dumbassery by actually knowing what he's doing.

Director (and writer) David Ayer shoots this film like it's a documentary about the Los Angeles Police Department.

But whereas free - swinging kids once were shrugged off with limp phrases like «Boys will be boys,» police investigations have disclosed that bullying is usually the root cause of school shootings.

To see what I mean, just think of the numerous tragedies this year involving police shootings of unarmed African - Americans in places like Ferguson, Cleveland, Staten Island, and South Carolina, as well as the death of Freddy Gray in Baltimore at the hands of police there.

This can lead to many tragic situations, like the incident in Hawthorne, California a few weeks ago in which a police officer shot and killed a Rottweiler.

What you will see in your son's game, if this iteration of GTA is anything like its predecessors, is incredible interactive violence aimed at police officers (whom you can shoot in the head and see the blood spray), innocent bystanders (whom you can run over with your car just for the heck of it), and of course the plentiful female prostitutes you can have sex with and then filet with a knife or stomp with your feet in order to get your money back.

Police that don't shoot you immediately if point your gun at them like in GTA 5 and try to negotiate with you or your gang if possible during a shakedown, robbery or ransom, hostage situation, town takeovers.

this game is not bad there may be some problems here and there but it is great fun i just love the car chase part if u like shooting police and swat teams or being the bad guy go for it but i think they use the f word too much.

Now you can play City of Crime Police shoot out on PC, just like City of Crime Police shoot out for PC version.

Each defender has a unique use, with some — like the Biker — dealing more damage per second, while others, like the police Trooper, possessing the ability to shoot at flying zombats, and so on.

LIKE SO MANY OTHER AMERICANS, artist Titus Kaphar has been struggling with how to respond to the shooting of Mike Brown in Ferguson, Mo., the choking death of Eric Garner in New York, and the countless other incidents involving police officers killing unarmed Black men and youth across the country.

For a cheeky group show «With friends like you...» — a subtle dig at the Cuban art Establishment — Aquiles covered the façade of their home in a Technicolor cladding of cans while six other artists took over the inside with process - based paintings made with human breath, conceptual sculptures hewn from business cards and palettes, and a sculptural installation by the couple's 17 - year - old son, Bastian Silvestre, that comments on the police - related shootings in the U.S..

Open Casket and images of the painting now circulate much like viral videos of police shootings, shocking and traumatizing people every time they pop up in a search for Schutz, the Whitney Biennial, and now even Emmett Till.

Their spooky videos, shot in the abandoned Greenham Common missile base and the East German secret police headquarters, have echoes of cult television shows like The Prisoner.

Perhaps the most forceful directive is when Pendleton has Rainer read aloud a text that collages together descriptions of police shootings of black men by Keeanga - Yahmahtta Taylor, quotes from Black leaders like Malcolm X and Stokely Carmichael, lines from Ron Silliman's poetry, and snippets from a 1969 letter written to Rainer by her friend Barbara Dilley about performing one of her pieces.

We're getting into a really slippery slope when we say who can take on what topic and what's off - limits, what can white artists talk about, what can a black artist, because on the flip side you have someone like Henry Taylor depicting Philando Castile, who was recently shot and killed by police, in a very large painting.

Those who are so enamored of mass gun confiscation should try out their schemes in places like Washington DC, Detroit and Chicago, and see how many armed confrontations will result in which police shoot citizens, citizens shoot police, and the result is open warfare and a total breakdown of law enforcement.

Answer: «DUI - super extreme» is the charge when a person does all of the following: hits «numerous curbs» and drives on the sidewalk; says «I don't have to walk f*cking anywhere» when approached by a cop; shoves an officer after declining to take field sobriety tests; scuffles with a cop and gets taken to the ground; knees a second officer in the crotch while being handcuffed; repeatedly curses at police; kicks the inside of a squad car; has a blood alcohol content nearly three times the legal limit; and poses for a mug shot like this:

This means that if the police raid your home with a search warrant for pot and shoot you dead, even if your family can show that the shooting was unlawful, the police would be liable only for something like funeral expenses if they could show that «more likely than not,» you had sold some pot, or at some point possessed a large enough quantity of the drug to merit a felony charge.

Counter-arguments that such hacking back action should be left to the police, would be answerable by the need to follow the attack back immediately, being the time when finding the attacker was most opportune — like shooting back at the spot whereat the intended victim sees the flash of the attacker's gun before the attacker is gone or shoots again.

Meanwhile, Facebook's leaders who write the community standards and content policies also act as editors, vetoing or allowing controversial content like reports of police shootings or nude historical photographs.

People who knew the 18 - year - old Taiwanese exchange student charged in the U.S. with threatening to shoot up his school say he liked guns and wanted to join the police.