Sentences with phrase «of police violence»

Fly Away comes at just the right moment with the ever - growing list of names of victims of police violence, reports of mass shootings and ongoing election news.

Though it's unfortunate that the highly sensitive issue of police violence is used but never fully addressed, the movie isn't about that.

Events of the past few weeks have once again raised the question of the value of anonymous reports regarding experiences of police violence.

I once tweeted something like, «As a white man I'm not always sure how to respond to instances of police violence against black men.

The athlete's raised arms may stand for the victim of police violence in a pose of surrender, praise for the dead, or a salute to black power, but not thanks to Longo.

If economic class continues to be one of the most bitter flash points in American politics, race is, ever, the other, and never more so than in an election year marked by surges of xenophobia and instances of police violence directed against black citizens.

Even a fun outing with Miles» daughter taken a dark turn; she's seen so much footage of police violence in her young life that she mimes, «Don't shoot, don't shoot,» then bursts into giggles.

Advocates of Cuomo's «soup to nuts» overhaul of the criminal justice system — his response to the fatal arrest of Eric Garner and the nationwide demonstrations prompted by it and other high - profile incidents of police violence — are asking him to ignore the Legislature and appoint a special prosecutor, and he seems ready to oblige.

About 2,000 U.S. veterans are planning to join protesters at the Standing Rock protests in North Dakota, they will act as «human shields» for protesters who have faced increasing amounts of police violence through months of protesting the planned oil pipeline.

Utilizing testimony, news reports, and memory, participants will recreate intensely contested moments of police violence through shifting perspective.

The Daily News reported Tuesday that Cuomo is considering an automatic review when grand juries decline to bring charges in cases of police violence.

His feature - length debut revolves around a Brooklyn street hustler who captures an illegal act of police violence on his cell phone and contends with a chain of events that ensue as a result.

During her tenure, which ends November 12, Harris will explore «the impact of police violence on interpersonal relationships» in a series of workshops and narrative paintings she plans to create, organizers said.

Mark Bradford's Pride of Place Introduction by Antwaun Sargent STUDENT REFLECTIONS Racial Innocence in Postwar America by Maia Silber Envisioning the Right to Vote by Jonathan Karp Keith Lamont Scott and the Legacy of Police Violence by David E. White Jr..

Finch's death also says something about the dangers of police violence.

After glossing over «stop and frisk,» he declares, «Undoubtedly there are other changes in police tactics that can reduce the likelihood of police violence.»

Apart from the flurry of goals on the pitch, the night was also marked with reports of police violence targeting the travelling Liverpool fans.

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.

In Coogler's debut, Fruitvale Station, Jordan plays Oscar Grant, a real - life Oakland victim of police violence within a white - supremacist system.

Widely criticized for their depictions of police violence against residents of Rio de Janeiro's favelas, Brazilian director Jose Padilha's wildly successful Elite Squad and Elite Squad: The Enemy Within represented a fascinating diptych, an attempt to tick the boxes of the police procedural while probing rampant corruption and abuse of power.

Full page review of «Black and Blue: Examples of Police Violence» a group exhibition at Wesleyan University.

Is it the very real threat of police violence — or only, in the words of a rapper accompanying them, a bad dream?

In a recent series of hand - sewn fabric works that debuted at the Untitled art fair in Miami in December, felt silhouettes inspired by photographs of police violence during the 2012 national agrarian strike in Colombia mingle with images of the Cathara women, similarly brought to their knees.

Viewers of this exhibition are confronted with controversy immediately on entering the gallery, wherein five black cloths are fastened to ropes that, when pulled, uncover red - paneled silk screens of police violence.

She merged 19th century landscapes with photographs of 2016 protests in the wake of police violence in Baltimore and Ferguson, Mo..

The inflation and deflation of Ursuta's raised fist suggests a vacillation between outrage and impotence — sentiments now widely felt by those who see a pattern of police violence and racial prejudice in the cases of Garner, Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., and others.

Referencing political and social awareness in this age of police violence and Black Lives Matter, works by the artists «traverse the psychic and spiritual landscape of Black erasure through narrative - figural styles; often negotiating high and low forms of image making.»

Most personal injury lawyers have seen the results of police violence, so you can be confident that a Dallas personal injury attorney will listen and investigate your claim.

Abdul - Jabbar wrote in an essay for the Hollywood Reporter that while «it's unfortunate that the highly sensitive issue of police violence is used but never fully addressed, the movie isn't about that.

Watch the new footage of police violence to emerge from the G20 protests, which has prompted a review of policing methods at demonstrations.

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.»

Organizers for the event wrote on their website that they support Campaign Zero's goal to «tackle the systemic issues behind incidents of police violence.»

I observed that young black males attract the «special attention» of law enforcement, and that any population focused on by people with guns — even law enforcers — will suffer a disproportionate amount of police violence.

The State Senate again passed legislation to allow mixed martial arts, while the Assembly spent more than two hours debating a bill allowing for appointment of special prosecutors — prompted by high - profile cases of police violence — that was already voted down by the Senate.

in particular, we're beginning to see films about the enduring impact the instances of police violence that gave rise to the Black Lives Matter movement have on the people who live in communities like Baltimore, Md., and Ferguson, Mo..

comes at just the right moment with the ever - growing list of names of victims of police violence, reports of mass shootings and ongoing election news.

Folks wore shirts honoring Eric Garner, Akai Gurley, Ramarley Graham, and Anthony Baez: all victims of police violence.

Folks have said that Battlefield Hardline doesn't say anything about the history of police violence and excessive force.

Finally, the memorial journey ends with contemporary issues of police violence and racially biased criminal justice expressed in a final work created by Hank Willis Thomas.

Made in response to Kendrick Lamar's 2012 album good kid, m.A.A.d city, Joseph's work incorporates home videos shot by the singer's uncle in 1992, with news footage of police violence, and his own footage featuring scenes that veer from everyday life to magical realism and the macabre.

His works often call into question issues of police violence and authoritarianism exercised against youth and communities of color, as well as highlight vernacular language, architecture, and food culture associated with the urban lexicon.

In the video, low - res images of black men's and women's faces, all of them victims of police violence, spin around against a blue backdrop.

Danez Smith sees another life for the black victims of police violence: at last living in a world where blackness is celebrated and «everything / is a sanctuary & nothing is a gun.»