Sentences with phrase «of unarmed black teenagers»

The killing of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri has catapulted the quiet, yet steady, militarization of police forces across the U.S. to global attention.

Five people were arrested in New York City last night in connection with protests against the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Mo..

After praising the NYPD for maintaining order during New York City - based protests following the news that a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri, did not indict a white police officer in the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager, de Blasio said there is «a great sensitivity» to ensuring emergency vehicles are not blocked during marches.

A number of films touching on controversial subjects during the past year also made the cut including The Hunting Ground, about campus rape; 3 1/2 Minutes, 10 Bullets, about the shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white man in Florida; Going Clear: Scientology And The Prison Of Belief, an in - depth look at the Church of Scientology; Winter On Fire: Ukraine's Fight For Freedom, which chronicles the unrest in the Eastern European country; and He Named Me Malala, about the young girl who survived being shot in the head by the Taliban for being outspoken about her country's education system.

Other urban districts also have begun to focus on minority males to reduce the achievement gap or address skewed discipline statistics or stereotypes, all issues that have been magnified since the shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a police officer in Ferguson, Mo., in August.

First unveiled at Art Basel Miami Beach, this charcoal drawing depicts the Ferguson, Missouri, police force in riot gear during a protest over the killing of the unarmed black teenager Michael Brown.

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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.

Regardless of where people stand on the issue, the fact remained — an unarmed black teenager that reminded many black people of our cousins, brothers and nephews was killed and wouldn't be coming back (and it wasn't the first time).

«Despite changes in stop - and - frisk policy in New York City, the system is obviously broken when an unarmed Black teenager can be shot to death in his own bathroom and no one is held to account by any part of our criminal justice system.

The Working Families Party in a statement said it was troubled by the decision by the U.S. Department of Justice to not charge police officers in the death of Ramarley Graham, an unarmed black teenager.

The family of Michael Brown, the unarmed black teenager who was fatally shot by a suburban St. Louis police officer last Saturday, may attend Sharpton's «We Will Not Go Back» march.

Carrying banner reading «Black Lives Matter» at the helm of the procession were the families of Ramarley Graham, an unarmed Bronx teenager shot dead by police in his home in 2012, and of Brooklyn 16 - year - old Kimani Gray — who was allegedly carrying a pistol when officers killed him in the street in 2013.

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 plans that have been approved about how individuals could be a part of this program... someone like George Zimmerman could get a job,» said Rep. Shevrin Jones (D - West Park), referring to the neighborhood watch volunteer acquitted of fatally shooting Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager, in 2012.

In a separate room, Gonzales - Day brought his subject up to date in works that insert characters from Run Up into photographs of the protest marches in Los Angeles that followed a grand jury's refusal to indict Darren Wilson, a white police officer, for fatally shooting Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014.

I live in St. Louis, less than 20 miles from the unrest following the August 9 fatal shooting by a white police officer of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager.