Sentences with phrase «of black officers»

If our Westchester County Justice system can create an atmosphere guilt of Black officers but White officers continue to violate policies, then any young man, especially, a young black man does not have a chance for any real transparency of the law in Westchester County.

One of the black officers deployed his Taser, but it didn't activate.

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The group of inspirational judges includes Aaron Firestein and Raaja Nemani, co-founders of BucketFeet which produces shoes designed by artists from around the world; Lance Rios, founder of Hispanic communication platform Being Latino; Roberto Torres, Luis Montanez and Chris Findeisen, creators of made - in - America apparel brand Black & Denim; Sulaiman Sanni and Ben Lamson, creators of the crowd - funding website WeDidIt; and Marve Frazier, CEO of premier destination website for African American popular culture and entertainment Bossip.com and Chief Creative Officer of Moguldom Media Group.

Police officers use bicycles to create cordons around a protest march by various groups, including «Black Lives Matter» and «Shut Down Trump and the RNC,» ahead of the convention.

The verdict comes about three years after rioting broke out in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson when an unarmed black teenager was shot dead by a white police officer.

The ad, which featured Jenner joining a vague protest and giving a police officer a can of soda to diffuse the situation, was accused of trivializing social movements like Black Lives Matter.

This includes «chronic, structural racial injustice — such as the persistent paucity of black faculty members and administrators at Yale, the common experience of being the only black student in some classes, and being disproportionately likely to be stopped and asked for ID — or worse — by campus police officers.»

According to The Wall Street Journal, body cameras have become a $ 1 billion industry since the deaths of Brown, Eric Garner, and other unarmed black civilians at the hands of police officers.

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.

To that end, managers need to do a better job of helping young black women navigate the workplace, «particularly the culture of unspoken expectations,» says Tiffany Dufu, 43, author and chief leadership officer of Levo, a career site for millennial women.

The shooting death of an 18 - year - old black man named Michael Brown by a 28 - year - old white police officer, and the weeks of protest that followed.

The black voters in Philly, and I say this based on 30 years of picking juries and talking to them, are more likely to have a family member who is a police officer, a family member who is in jail, and a family member who has been killed or severely victimized.

The shooting death of a 12 - year - old black boy named Tamir Rice by two white Cleveland Police Department officers.

Blacks accounted for about 19 percent of Minneapolis» population in 2010 but just about 9 percent of the city's police officers in 2013, according to U.S. data.

At the time, his business was considered part of the «black delivery» market and he risked being caught and fined by the country's postal officers.

Nekima Levy - Pounds, president of the Minneapolis chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, compares the city's mostly white police department to «an occupying force» when its officers go into black neighborhoods.

Black residents of Minneapolis and nearby towns said the lack of a requirement for police to live in the jurisdictions they patrol has kept officers disconnected from neighborhoods.

One officer is notorious for harassing local black residents, to the point where he has been given a street nickname of «Bro Stupid,» said Burnell Williams, who works with at - risk youth and ex-prisoners for the nonprofit group Against All Odds.

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.

«The lack of diversity is extraordinary,» says John Rogers, chief executive officer of Ariel Investments LLC, one of the largest black - owned money managers in the U.S. «People have not thought about this problem in creative ways.

Hunched over a black wooden table in his modestly sized office, Chief Executive Officer Lei Jun preps for his 12th meeting of the day.

SAN FRANCISCO — After nearly five months of digging into Uber's internal culture, its new chief human resources officer says the ride - hailing company's treatment of women — which gave it a public black eye after charges of persistent sexism and discrimination were detailed by a former employee — is no worse at Uber than at other companies.

Uber has not only brought on a chief diversity officer but also continues to make progress in terms of representation of black and brown people in leadership roles in the U.S., as well as the overall number of women in its workforce.

Protests occurred again in September after a white former St. Louis police officer was acquitted in the shooting death of another black man in 2011.

For those who need the introductions, Melroy is a retired Air Force officer and former NASA astronaut who piloted the space shuttle Discover, Drell is one of the foremost leaders in the field of particle physics, and Malvala is an astrophysicist and member of the team that first detected gravitational waves from colliding black holes.

John Powell, who has been with Help - U-Sell for 28 years and is currently the Chief Development Officer, advises that you think beyond the black and white of your budget.

The plaintiffs detailed a series of «militaristic displays of force and weaponry,» including being shot with rubber bullets, tear gassed, beaten and arrested during demonstrations following the shooting of the black teen by a white police officer.

Though the DOJ's report did not recommend seeking charges against the officer who shot and killed unarmed teen Michael Brown during a confrontation this summer, it did say that the department routinely violated the constitutional rights of black residents.

the first disciplinarian of the black youth is the police officer.

The lack of parenting skills means, far to often the first disciplinarian for black youth is the Police Officer.

We have seen the officer, security guard or vigilante assailant - protected from arrest and whisked out of the reach of the angry black people.

I join many other adults in the black community when I advise any young black man that I influence of the importance of honoring and respecting the police, while also keeping his hands visible and consistently identifying the officer by his badge number.

Officers stopped the man who «was found in possession of a large knife» in a black case near the cathedral in Francis Street.

In those cases the court deferred to the judgment of the Air Force that the free - exercise claim of a Jewish officer who wore his yarmulke on duty could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of correctional authorities that the free - exercise claim of a Black Muslim to attend Friday afternoon religious services could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service that building a logging road through a national forest was necessary despite the damage to religious practices of Native American tribes in that area; it deferred to the Internal Revenue Service's ruling that Bob Jones University was not entitled to tax exemption because of its religiously motivated rule against interracial dating and marriage on campus; it deferred to the judgment of the secretary of labor that a religious community must pay its members the minimum wage for work they performed in the group's business although the members said they had religious objections to being paid for their work.

It became clear that the undercover officer had been sent to rid the town of young black people whom they deemed problematic, and the evidence suggested that he had faked many cases to put money in his own pocket.

The video comes after several other shootings of unarmed black men by white police officers, and has drawn outrage online for how police treated Harris, who died shortly after at the hospital.

Ferguson went into a series of riots in protest of how white police officers treat black men in their city.

Has it made a difference or slowed the gunning down of young, unarmed black men who brandish mobile phones that officers mistook as firearms, resulting in six shots to the back?

This weekend, video surfaced on Twitter of several officers surrounding and arresting two black men in a Philadelphia Starbucks on Thursday because they hadn't ordered anything.

A black male, believed to be wearing a black puffer jacket, walked along Ferncliff Road in the direction of Downs Park Road and through a nearby alleyway after the sound of a gunshot, officers added.

The Christian MP for East Ham has told Premier prayers are needed for his borough after the death of a young black man triggered violent protests in east London, leaving six officers injured.

Slager is the white officer who shot an unarmed black man, Walter Scott, last year, which further exacerbated tensions between law enforcement and many within the black community — basically a theme of 2015.

Since the shooting of unarmed black teen Michael Brown — and lack of indictment of the officer, who is white — sparked massive protests in Ferguson, the news has featured a seemingly constant stream...

I could go on and on here: The adjectives used to describe women in leadership roles versus the ones used to describe men in similar jobs, the previous arrest record of black people involved in a law enforcement shooting and yet never the officer's misconduct record, the average amount of lines given to male characters over female.

The founders of Black Lives Matter refute these 11 stated misconceptions about their movement; they ignore Black on Black crime, they're leaderless, they have no agenda, they're a one - issue movement (Police brutality), they don't respect their elders, they reject the Black Church, they don't care about Queer / Trans lives, they hate White people, they hate Police officers, politically speaking their focus should be the vote, and they're not actually a movement.

WASHINGTON, DC — Dr. Leon Bruner, Chief Science Officer of the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), today announced that Glenn Black, GMA's Director of Science Operations, Food Protection, has been selected to chair the newly formed Food Safety Preventive Controls (FSPC) Alliance Steering and Executive Committee.

Kernel chief operating officer Konstantin Litvinsky said the Black Sea could meet rising demand in south - east Asia as the region's big flour millers became less reliant on the Australian wheat, which had been a cornerstone of their operations.

Members of the Junior Comanches football team demonstrated Sunday after kids asked team coaches about the protests in St. Louis over a not - guilty verdict of an officer killing a black man in 2011.

«I don't want to get too political, but police officers in this city react much differently to a group of black people than they do to a bunch of white kids,» he says.

Newton's comments leading up to the Panthers game and protest reflected him wanting to bring unity, but said his desire for accountability applied to both the black community and police officers and that there was a state of oppression in the black community but also that «as black people, we have to do right by ourselves.