Sentences with phrase «over police killings»

Some said it seemed opportunistic and inappropriate at a time of national protests over police killings of unarmed black men.

Andrew Cuomo begins his second term in office amid strife over the police killing of Eric Garner, an unarmed citizen in State Island who was selling illegal cigarettes, and the murder of two police officers.

Andrew Cuomo begins his second term in office amid strife over the police killing of Eric Garner, an unarmed citizen in Staten Island who was selling illegal cigarettes, and the murder of two police officers.

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Over that time, a police officer was killed, one of the suspects died, several officers sustained life - threatening injuries and one of the country's major cities was shut down.

Police are investigating whether a car that was found on fire behind a Miami Gardens school belonged to a South Florida college student shot and killed over the weekend.

This would be like him, after going over to the neighbor and torturing her and raping her and then killing her, telling the police the reason he did it was because he was a mysterious guy.

For over seven weeks in 2007, police tortured Gao with cigarette burns and electric batons, threatening to kill him.

Well... yes, but it is more like this: «Go and «sin» no more, or the sin police over there are going to kill you.»

At one point, it was stated that in 2015, police killings were up by 7.9 % over the previous year.

Damond (who also went by Justine Ruszczyk) was killed over the weekend, but police have been slow to release many details up to this point.

The brutal killings this week of four young men in this Long Island community resemble other homicides over the past year that police say were carried out by MS - 13, one of the largest street gangs in the U.S.

A video of Coeymans police killing a rabid raccoon last Monday by chasing it down and running over it over with their vehicles that went viral spurred a call for statewide animal control reform.

Robbert Woltering discussed Egyptian football supporters, the «ultras», whose participation in the revolution emerged out of frustration with police violence and politicisation over Palestine and the killing of Khaled Said.

Suffolk County has agreed to pay $ 1.5 million to settle a lawsuit over the death of a 17 - year - old girl who was killed in a car crash involving two police officers nearly a decade ago.

Cuomo, saying there is a «crisis of confidence» in the criminal justice system, signed an executive order to have the state's attorney general take over from local district attorneys, anytime a unarmed civilian is killed in an encounter with police, and there are questions about what happened.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has appointed the state attorney general as a temporary special prosecutor to over see cases where a civilian is killed by a police officer.

Since being given authority in certain police fatal shootings, Schneiderman has declined to take over several cases, but he recently won an indictment against an off - duty officer who shot and killed a motorist during a so - called «road rage» case.

International observers must therefore watch closely the security forces of the Kenyan state because if any such strategy by the Jubilee Alliance materialised, it would be carried out in the same way in which extra-judicial killings by police have been normalised in the pursuing the Mungiki over the past five years.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio has returned from a surprise trip to Germany over the weekend, the timing of which — the day after the ambush killing of a city police officer as she sat in her mobile command unit in the Bronx — drew criticism even from some of his staunch supporters.

«The DPO in Owutu went to Igbolomu and the surrounding communities and as of the time he got there, he saw everybody running in panic and it could be maybe because of that immediate response the militants had fled the place and while moving round, he later found six corpses of the people that were killed and the police took over those corpses out of which two were immediately released to their families who said they want to go and bury according to Islamic rights, while we took the remaining four to the morgue.

A state Supreme Court justice has thrown out a petition by Rensselaer County District Attorney Joel E. Abelove that sought to undo the state attorney general's power to take over cases in which unarmed civilians are killed by police.

The family of a Hofstra University student killed in an off - campus 2013 police shooting has reached a tentative $ 4.5 million settlement with Nassau County over a pair of lawsuits, county officials said Saturday.

The House of Representatives on Wednesday summoned the Inspector - General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris, over rising cases of extra-judicial killings in the country by security personnel, particularly the pPolice, Mr. Ibrahim Idris, over rising cases of extra-judicial killings in the country by security personnel, particularly the policepolice.

Uganda police say they have arrested a number of suspects over a recent spate of killings of women near the capital, Kampala.

Civil rights groups have called on President Muhammadu Buhari to sack the Inspector - General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, over the incessant killings by herdsmen, particularly in the...

Civil rights groups have called on President Muhammadu Buhari to sack the Inspector - General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, over the incessant killings by herdsmen, particularly in the Northern part of the country.

«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.»

The plans for a heightened security presence, amplified after the mass killings this month inside a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., have highlighted a rift between the police and some in the gay community over the very definition of «security.»

In fact, the false Ferguson narrative stuck because of concern over a distressing pattern of other police killings of unarmed African American men and boys around the time of Brown's death.

Kaduna State Governor Nasir El - Rufai has reiterated that Chocolate City co-founder, Audu Maikori, who was recently arrested by the police over a series of tweets he sent to his followers, alleging that some students of the Kaduna State College of Education had been killed by Fulani herdsmen in Southern Kaduna, will face prosecution for his crime.

Following the investigation ordered by President Buhari over the killings of innocent people by invading unknown gunmen at Zaki Biam in Benue State, the Inspector General of Police, IGP Ibrahim K. Idris NPM, mni, has deployed Police Special Tactical Force with their Headquarters in Zaki Biam, Ukum LGA, Benue State.

Then I would probably think that in the situation, her diabetes was an impairment and the police officer who pulled said diabetic over had good cause and I thank he or she for stopping that driver from killing someone or hurting themselves...

They also resolved that the Inspector - General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris, «must» within 14 days arrest the herdsmen suspected to have killed over 70 persons in Benue State recently.

There was confusion along Ada George Road in Port Harcourt, the Rivers state capital, on Thursday morning, as soldiers took over the Rumukpakani Police station, reportedly in response to the killing of their colleague by a policeman.

The Nigeria Police Force has received a backlash from a human rights activist over the alleged trifling manner the investigation into the killing of a Bayelsa State teenager, Innocent Kokorifa, is being handled.

In April 2016, Edson Thevenin, who was suspected of driving under the influence, was shot and killed by Troy Police Sgt. Randall French, who contended Thevenin tried to run him over during a traffic stop.

The office of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki has released a list of killings over which it said it invited the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim...

Nigerians have called out President Muhammadu Buhari and the Nigeria Police over the continuous killings in Benue state.

Police in Malta have arrested 10 suspects over the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia, the country's prime minister has said, nearly two months after the anti-corruption journalist was killed by a powerful car bomb.

«This perception is creating much of the current acrimony over the recent police killings of New York citizens,» Richard Condon, then the state's executive director of Criminal Justice Services, wrote.

However the Jewish Labour MP Luciana Berger - who is a regular target for abuse - said she and her staff had gone to the police over the abuse they had suffered from left - wingers, including one email urging her to kill herself.

Over the summer, Police Officer Daniel Pantaleo, 29, killed Eric Garner, 43, an unarmed man selling loose cigarettes, outside a Staten Island bodega.

There was confusion along Ada George Road in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, on Thursday morning, as soldiers took over the Rumukpakani Police station, reportedly in response to the killing of their colleague by a policeman.

The Benue state police command on Tuesday made clarifications on the figure of persons that were killed over the last two months during attacks by suspected herdsmen.

Led by Graham and family members of other New Yorkers killed by police, demonstrators marched over the Brooklyn Bridge after police cleared the span of any traffic.

Kenneth Thompson, the Brooklyn district attorney, solemnly unveiled a six - count indictment this afternoon against the NYPD officer who shot and killed Akai Gurley, striving to show the public his office was not pressured by the police protests that have roiled the city and nation over the last year.

With session over and his legislative opponents out of town, Cuomo leaped into action, issuing an executive order to create a special prosecutor for police killings.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo last year signed an order that required the AG's office take over as special prosecutor for cases in which a police officer shoots and kills an unarmed civilian.

Nwanosike alleged that Lloyd was charged to court by the police over an attempt to kill a lawmaker in the state House of Assembly, Michael Chinda.

A 17 - year - old Junior High School pupil, [name withheld], is in police custody for allegedly killing his mother over his missing mobile phone memory card.