Sentences with phrase «old white police officer»
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.
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The shooting death of a 12 - year - old black boy named Tamir Rice by two white Cleveland Police Department officers.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is undertaking one of the biggest challenges of his year - old mayoralty after a Staten Island grand jury declined to indict a white police officer in the death of an unarmed black man, Eric Garner.
The recent killing of two police officers has only inflamed the rift that has grown exponentially worse since Garner, a 43 - year - old black father of six from Stapleton, was killed by a white police officer in Tompkinsville.
The rally tonight, which lasted several hours and never seemed to attract more than 50 people at a time, was relatively subdued, a stark contrast to the violent protests that roiled Ferguson last week after a Missouri grand jury voted not to indict a white police officer for shooting to death the 18 - year - old Brown.
In Fruitvale Station, he plays Oscar Grant, a 22 - year - old who, in the early morning hours of New Year's Day 2009, was fatally shot in the back while being restrained by white BART police officers at a transit station in Oakland, Calif..
When protests erupted in this community last year after the death of Michael Brown, and then later when a grand jury declined to indict the white police officer who shot the black 18 - year - old, Shawn Filer and Aniya Betts wanted to be part of the solution.
A year after the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, an 18 - year - old black man, by a white police officer touched off protests that echoed nationwide, Davis spoke with Education Week Staff Writer Denisa R. Superville about his still - developing plans to address inequity and bias in the district.
The series» eponymous phrase became a rallying cry across the United States following the fatal Ferguson, Missouri shooting of Michael Brown, an eighteen - year - old black man, by Darren Wilson, a white police officer.
Twelve - year - old Serra Williams says her mostly white classmates once taunted a police officer by yelling out «Black Lives Matter» from a bus.
«Nobody's going to stop these kids,» said Mike McFadden, a 59 - year - old retired police officer who drove several hours from his home in Indialantic to visit Stoneman Douglas, where a makeshift memorial of 17 white crosses is surrounded by mounds of flowers.