Sentences with phrase «of white police»

As exemplars, two of the boxes are two halves of the same photograph, where the torsos of a group of white police officers and their captive, a helpless black woman, are practically erased.

Made in 1992, a year that saw widespread and painful rioting following the acquittal of white police officers in the beating of Rodney King, the work was dedicated by the artist to the people of South Central Los Angeles.

Politics peeks through, at moments: a photograph of a white police officer watching the proceedings; an advertisement for Colt 45 Malt Liquor, which targeted low - income African - American neighborhoods.

«While the facts of the tragic deaths of two black civilians at the hands of white police officers are still being determined and should be fully investigated, what happened in Dallas was an entirely different situation,» Cox said.

Mr. Donovan rose to prominence after he did not secure an indictment of a white police officer in the death of Garner, a black Staten Island man, spurring protests nationwide.

In contrast the HEROISM of the WHITE Police Officer who took NINE bullets to save lives at theat temple is a real American patriot.

Both play a vital role in shaping my view of the Ferguson incident and other incidents similar to Ferguson around the country in which young African - American males are dying at the hands of white 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.

Not exact matches

In addition to interviewing leading legal scholars and activists, like Angela Davis, DuVernay said she reviewed about 1,000 hours of archival footage, including of images of lynchings, cellphone videos of police abuse, and The Birth of a Nation, the 1915 D.W. Griffith film that glorified the Ku Klux Klan (and was screened at the White House for President Woodrow Wilson).

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.

To get to the U.S. Attorney's office, a visitor must wind his way through a phalanx of blue police barricades, stop by a kiosk manned by a U.S. marshal, enter a giant white tent with police and metal detectors, and proceed to a bulletproof visitors desk, replete with armed guards.

Thus fails the first line of defense against white - collar crime: self - policing.

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

And African - American men are far more likely to be stopped and searched by police, charged with crimes and sentenced to longer prison terms than white men convicted of the same offenses.

It's clear that today even the best language - parsing engines and related algorithms are no match for the old family connectivity trees built out of bright - colored Post-its tacked to the wall, or the white boards that we see every night on the tube in the police procedural shows like Law and Order.

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.

Lester Holt reports on Officer Bobby White of the Gainesville Police Department, who used his fame from a 2016 viral video to help police around the country better connect with the communities they Police Department, who used his fame from a 2016 viral video to help police around the country better connect with the communities they police around the country better connect with the communities they serve.

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.

With state police and a smattering of protesters standing watch outside the church, brides clad in white and grooms in dark suits brought dozens of unloaded AR - 15s into World Peace and Unification Sanctuary for a religious event that doubled as an advertisement for the Second Amendment.»

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.

The decision comes at a time when racial tensions in the US are high after the Charleston massacre, arson attacks against several black - majority churches and several incidents of alleged white police brutality against unarmed black suspects in the past year.

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.

Preliminary rituals of Bible - reading (by the Commander to his household) preserve «bits of broken symbolism left over from the time before» (p. 60)-- bits that also appear on police vans (the Winged Eye), in uniforms (Handmaids wear red habits and stiff white blinders), in common speech (their standard farewell is «Under His Eye») and military orders (Guardians of the Faith watch everywhere, outranked by Angel forces).

Drew Hart is the author of Trouble I've Seen: Changing the Way the Church Views Racism, which released in January and which tackles police brutality, mass incarceration, antiblack stereotypes, poverty, and everyday acts of racism by placing them in the larger framework of white supremacy.

The report found that a black driver who was pulled over was twice as likely to be searched by police as a white driver, even though searches of white drivers were more likely to turn up drugs or illegal weapons.

This selective «colorblindness» is a mighty convenient approach to race in America for white people, for it allows us to paper over America's troubled (and decidedly anti-Christian) history, to discount racism as a thing of the past for which we are no longer responsible, and to ignore persistent racial injustices like mass incarceration, police brutality, voting rights issues, white flight, and economic inequality, all while consistently benefiting from an oppressive system we claim we can not even see.

On Tuesday night, police investigating the rampage were seen surrounding a white Toyota minivan with Florida number plates in the car park of Home Depot in Passaic, New Jersey.

More than half of the names listed were shot by white police.

So when I see Brown's corpse amid reports that he was shot by a representative of both the historic (white) and vocational (police) power structure of our country, I hope you will find it more than understandable if I cry foul.

If the election results are substantially different than what the alphabet national networks have been telling us, then we know Obama has promised change and delivered to us a socialist - totalitarian police state where the media and journalists are under the complete control and financing of the White House.

That third definition of Black Lives Matter is often one we hear the most, the one people say affirms the killing of police, affirms the hatred and blaming of white people.

Ted Nugent: Trayvon Martin was a «dope smoking, racist gangsta wannabe» ANSWER - Ted Nugent IS a dope smoking white as an empty ghost sack of maggots in my garbage racist gangster: with maggot sack of garbage police friends all over the U.S..

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.

I was pleased to see it on display at the press conference I watched last night, when the president spoke so eloquently about the flight of his friend, poor Skip Gates, and the indignity he had to endure from a racially insensitive white police officer.

White Americans who say they absolutely live in fear of police brutality are 4 percent of the reporting, compared to Black people at 16 percent and Hispanics at 14 percent.

The most stark difference comes in when considering that 13 percent of white Americans say they have any fear of police brutality, compared to 56 percent of black Americans, 29 percent of Hispanics and 28 percent of Asian - Americans.

... He smiles and says that a few citizens in Janeville called the police because of a suspicious black man in a white car was parked at the Wharf for a couple hours.

Forging this kind of relationship created such a sense of trust that when the white police officer who trained me killed a young African - American male in an incident that was ruled to be a justifiable shooting in the mid 90s, there was no finger - pointing between the African - American community and the police department.

We shouldn't be surprised that masses of incensed residents of black Ferguson marching peacefully through their own streets in protest of sub-human treatment would trigger abject fear in the hearts of Ferguson's nearly all white police department.

This White Police Officer has shown the world a better view of what America represents than all the ignorant trash racists in the country.

While police in Overland Park, Kansas, stopped short of labeling the Sunday attacks a hate crime until they were further along in their investigation, the suspect - Frazier Glenn Miller - is the founder and former leader of the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and the White Patriot Party.

In Trouble I've Seen, he addresses police brutality, mass incarceration, antiblack stereotypes, poverty, and everyday acts of racism by placing them in the larger framework of white supremacy.

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.

We're introduced to Dom and his little sister, Mia (Jordana Brewster), who run a beat - up lunch counter when they're not drag racing through the streets of L.A. Undercover police officer Brian (Paul Walker), sent to investigate a string of truck robberies that Dom may or may not be involved in, is immediately distracted by Mia, who serves him tuna sandwiches on white bread with the crusts cut off.

«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.

Police cordoned off the scene, preventing him from seeing the white SUV that had pulverized a line of torso - thick trees before landing upside down in a culvert across the street from his home.

An explosive goes off in the median just steps from the police, setting off a distant car alarm, and a puff of white smoke rises from the shabby grass.

I only see two Lazio fans cross into Roma territory, and when Roma fans spot them, they pound the poor blue - and - white scarf - wearers to the ground, setting off a rush of helmeted police who disperse the crowd.