Sentences with phrase «over police brutality»

Miner cited Davis» failure to appear as a witness in a federal trial over a police brutality lawsuit in November.

They're also angry over police brutality.

Not exact matches

Papa John's founder John Schnatter, who stepped down as CEO at the end of last year, had blamed falling sales on the NFL's failure to resolve the raging controversy over players taking a knee during the national anthem, in order to protest against police brutality.

Just a few years ago, public condemnations from him of police brutality and overall systemic racism in the country were few and far between, with Jay's frustrations and reflections over his tough childhood limited mostly to his music, including «Politics as Usual» from his debut studio album Reasonable Doubt.

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.

It ignores discussions about police brutality, glosses over anything that happened before the last 10 days, and lands with something that's an insult to the players and people in sports trying to fight for legitimate change in America.

What began as a localised protest over a shopping centre and the demolition of the Gezi Park in Istanbul's central Taksim Square turned into a nationwide conflagration in response to the inciting rhetoric of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the unfettered police brutality unleashed upon peaceful protestors.

Zellnor provided over 600 hours of pro bono service to immigrants seeking asylum, victims of police brutality and illegal stop - and - frisks, special education students not receiving services from the Department of Education, and victims of domestic violence.

Black men of all ages and economic status can tell you story after story of being pulled over for «Driving While Black», and we've all heard more and more about the brutality that black Americans have received at the hands of police.

«If you look at the police brutality and the killings, and you look at the massive unemployment and poverty and wealth and income inequality... We need radical and effective leadership that's going to prioritize people over the party, that's going to prioritize human need over human greed.»

Mayor Bill de Blasio's City Hall has been at odds with police unions over a variety of controversies, including his tolerance of anti-police brutality protesters and the subsequent assassination of two officers in December.

Garner's death brought into focus a central point of Mr. de Blasio's campaign: the increasing tensions between communities of color and the police over stop - and - frisk and instances of alleged brutality, which he vowed to ease.

Following public outcry over cases of Police misconduct and brutality, Police authorities at both the Police Service Commission (PSC) and Force Headquarters have commenced investigations...

The Buffalo Police Internal Affairs Division is investigating a possible case of police brutality following the emergence of an online video over the wePolice Internal Affairs Division is investigating a possible case of police brutality following the emergence of an online video over the wepolice brutality following the emergence of an online video over the weekend.

The three have been at odds over the past few months, as the Council has protested police brutality and pushed ahead with proposed reforms, even after Lynch accused City Hall of having «blood» on its hands, and Bratton suggested members focus on showing «additional support» instead.

To support their case — and to highlight the excessive level of police brutality faced by African Americans — the authors present novel data showing that, over the past 50 years, blacks have faced significantly greater risk than whites of being killed by police.

Even among many of the most elite enclaves of blackness today, power is uniquely vulnerable and fragile, and there are as of yet no suits of any cost that will stop black youth from the ravages of police brutality the world over.

This is subject matter that the visionary Jenkins can bring to life with ferocity and delicateness in this hotly political climate where the lives of black men are all over the airwaves speaking of injustices and police brutality.

In many respects this event — part of a series of responses to police brutality, corruption, and racist policies aimed at undermining the rights of Britain's black population — was the first of its kind to unfold within the context of the BBC's nightly news.1 At an early moment in British television history, over the course of three days in April 1981, audiences were routinely exposed to images of dissenting blackness through the mediating lens of mainstream journalism; these images became inextricably linked to a series of representational codes that further underscored aspects of British society that had inherited and internalized systematic racial inequities.

Our White Plains police brutality lawyers have over 20 years experience obtaining justice for our clients who have been the victims of police assault and brutality.