Sentences with phrase «other black officers»
A Hempstead Village police detective has filed a complaint with the state's Division of Human Rights, alleging that racism and discrimination within the department and village government keep him and other black officers from being promoted.
http://www.nystateofpolitics.com/ Not exact matches
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.
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.
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.
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.
Herman Bell, who, along with two other members of the Black Liberation Army, shot and killed two NYPD officers outside a housing project in Harlem in 1971, has been granted parole.
NEW YORK — As the widow of NYPD Officer Joseph Piagentini cried Thursday at a police press conference, PIX11 learned the son of Waverly Jones, the other cop assassinated with Piagentini in 1971, supported the parole of Black Liberation Army radical, Herman Bell.
«It's kind of ironic to speak about the first 100 days because it took over 60 days to get a face - to - face with her,» said Kevin Black, president of the Nassau Superior Officers Association, with represents about 335 sergeants and other high - ranking oOfficers Association, with represents about 335 sergeants and other high - ranking officersofficers.
Friday, White Plains police Officer Michael Hannon stood with other Black Law Enforcement officers as they expressed their outrage in the failed investigation of the Westchester County DA's office.
-- DE BLASIO KOWTOWS TO POLICE — New York Times Editorial Board: «Like so many other black men in the United States, Eric Garner has been denied justice even in death... Hope for any justice probably lies in Mayor Bill de Blasio and his police commissioner, James O'Neill, doing what should have been done years ago: firing Officer Pantaleo.
A gunman killed three police officers and wounded three others in Louisiana's capital, Baton Rouge, just days after the police shooting of a black man there sparked nationwide protests, one of which led to the massacre of five Dallas policemen.
Mr. de Blasio urged the public not to «connect the dots» between the Gurley death and other incidents, like the Garner case and the uproar in Ferguson, Mo. after a grand jury failed to indict a white police officer for shooting to death a black teenager.
Other supporters, including City Councilman Brad Lander (D - 39th), said the two measures would end discrimination by police officers in black and Latino communities.
While Mayor Bill de Blasio did not directly criticize the decision, Ms. Rose, Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito and other minority elected officials angrily denounced the outcome, echoing reaction that came after a grand jury decided not to indict a white police officer for shooting a black teenager in Ferguson, Mo..
When the others won't chance it, Pfefferberg is left alone to bargain with Schindler for his expensive tastes for black market luxury goods - so he can bribe German officers and further encourage his own business ventures:
Kathleen Hepburn's Never Steady, Never Still, a meditative portrait of a mother's battle with Parkinson's while her son comes to terms with his identity, is nominated for Best Canadian Film along with two other exceptional first features: Cory Bowles» Black Cop, a timely satire about an African - Canadian police officer who fights back against entitled white citizens, and Antoine Bourges» Fail to Appear, a quiet and precise study of institutional systems of support available for those on parole.
The recent non-indictments of the officers who killed Eric Garner and Michael Brown, considered among the deaths of countless other black and brown men and women at the hands of police and extrajudicial incidents, calls for urgent and purposeful action to demand that such transgressions do not remain a permanent fixture within our nation.
Much more, of course, was involved in the shooting than the racial composition of the schools attended by Wilson and Brown, but it is hard to shake the feeling that a lack of contact and understanding — outside of confrontations — between white police officers and black citizens lies at the heart of this and too many other tragic encounters.
After all, those collaborations against the futures of black people can be seen today as black teachers, school leaders, police officers, and politicians team up with others to perpetuate the nation's education crisis and the overcriminalization of black lives.
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.
Yahoo's Chief Information Security Officer, Alex Stamos, took the opportunity during his speech at the recent Black Hat conference to discuss these upgrades and note that increased security measures will help users of their email service to «communicate in an encrypted manner with other Yahoo Mail users, but also with Gmail users and eventually with other email systems that adopt similar methodologies.»
Other works featured in LIVESupport include «Church State,» a two - part sculpture comprised of ink - covered church pews mounted on wheels; «Ambulascope,» a downward facing telescope supported by a seven - foot tower of walking canes, which are marked with ink and adorned with Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs) of the spinal column; «Riot Gates,» a series of large - scale X-Ray images of the human skull mounted on security gates and surrounded by a border of ink - covered shoe tips, objects often used by the artist as tenuous representation of the body; «Role Play Drawings» a series of found black and white cards from the 1960s used for teaching young children, which Ward has altered using ink to mark out the key elements and reshape the narrative, which leaves the viewer to interpret the remaining psychological tension; and «Father and Sons,» a video filmed at Reverend Al Sharpton's National Action Network House of Justice, which comments on the anxiety and complex dialogue that African - American police officers are often faced with when dealing with young African - American teenagers.
LIKE SO MANY OTHER AMERICANS, artist Titus Kaphar has been struggling with how to respond to the shooting of Mike Brown in Ferguson, Mo., the choking death of Eric Garner in New York, and the countless other incidents involving police officers killing unarmed Black men and youth across the couOTHER AMERICANS, artist Titus Kaphar has been struggling with how to respond to the shooting of Mike Brown in Ferguson, Mo., the choking death of Eric Garner in New York, and the countless other incidents involving police officers killing unarmed Black men and youth across the couother incidents involving police officers killing unarmed Black men and youth across the country.
Tate owns the Bruguera work Tatlin's Whisper # 5, a performance piece that requires two mounted police officers, one on a black horse, the other on a white horse.
I'm thinking it's because there's nothing else to say about it, other than the fact about 46 of the officers died from the starvation attempt... definitely a black mark on the Union's side, disgraceful way to treat POWs.
He ran to the 1200 building, and took his position behind a tree and black SUV — scanning for the shooter in the parking lot — while four other Coral Springs officers entered the building.