Sentences with phrase «police brutality after»

NEW YORK CITY — In 1985, Gov. Mario Cuomo commissioned an investigation into police brutality after an NYPD sergeant tortured a suspect in Queens using a stun gun, igniting a firestorm about race relations and policing.

The poll found that by a 58 percent to 33 percent margin, New Yorkers would back giving Schneiderman the power of special prosecutor to probe other instances of police brutality after a grand jury chose to not indict a New York police officer in the chokehold death of Eric Garner.

Not exact matches

Facebook Live, originally perceived as the future of the company increasingly depending on video, became a flashpoint after several broadcasts of police brutality, rape, suicide, and murder.

After Trump said in September that players should be fired for protesting, several players and others within the NFL began kneeling on the sidelines as the anthem played at games, continuing the demonstration started in 2016 by Colin Kaepernick, a San Francisco 49ers quarterback at the time, to protest racial inequality and police brutality.

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.

There was minor looting on one night of violence AFTER police brutality.

Chelsea have issued a complaint to UEFA after some of their fans alleged they were subjected to «brutality» from stewards and police at their Champions League match in Barcelona.

After that, links and groups visible only to each other became the way they communicated their location or movements, though they were happy to denounce Erdogan's government and upload photos of alleged police brutality on Twitter or Tumblr.

NPR story on BP Adams choosing to become a police officer after he was the victim of police brutality as a teenager.

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.

When Eric Garner, a black Staten Island man, died in July after police placed him in a chokehold, Ms. James — now the highest - ranked African - American elected official in the city — did not lead the charge of critics decrying the alleged police brutality.

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.

The online clashes between some of Sanders's white supporters and black voters came to a head after protesters interrupted the senator's speech at Netroots Nation in July, demanding he speak candidly about police brutality.

The gathering of several dozen residents, activists and organizations represented the second counter-protest to the waves of anti-police brutality marches that roiled the city after a Staten Island grand jury failed to indict a white police officer in the death of Eric Garner, a black man.

Mr. de Blasio rankled police unions and rank and file cops after he expressed sympathy for anti-police brutality protests that broke out after grand juries failing to indict white police officers in the deaths of black men in Staten Island and Ferguson, Mo..

Will it be Martin McDonagh, whose Three Billboards screenplay took a blue - hot blowtorch to some of the most incendiary topics in American life (racism, police brutality, criminal justice, the abuse of women)-- and wound up singing its author, after a handful of critics called the film out for its insensitivity to racial dynamics in the U.S.?

The trailer was released after various police unions decided to boycott Tarantino's movie after he commented that «cops are murderers» while participating in an anti-police brutality rally last month.

After calling some police officers «murderers» in a rally protesting police brutality, Tarantino and his movie «The Hateful Eight» became the target of a boycott by police unions across the country.

Fans were thrilled about a third collaboration between Coogler and the actor, after their success with 2013's Fruitvale Station (which shed light on police brutality years before it became daily conversation) and 2015's Rocky - spinoff, Creed.

In the year after Ava DuVernay's «13th» and Raoul Peck's «I Am Not Your Negro» went to the Oscars and helped reify conversations around mass incarceration and racism and police brutality and white privilege for countless folks, all three of these films continue that work.

Quentin Tarantino has recently found himself at the center of controversy — again — after he went to a protest against police brutality and made some comments that angered police officers and has resulted in an ever - spreading boycott by police unions and organizations across the country.

After Justyce McAllister, at the top of his prep - school class, is unaccountably arrested and an innocent victim of police brutality, he seeks solace and answers from the teachings of Martin Luther King Jr. in this raw look at racial inequality in America, made even more gripping by Graham's stellar narration.

A young girl is killed in crossfire after a routine arrest goes terribly wrong, and Lt. Lindsay Boxer has to defend herself against a charge of police brutality.

How can an individual create art after slavery, lynching, segregation, police brutality and omnipresent racism?

He was named one of the top emerging talents in the world by LensCulture and received the first place International Photography Award (IPA) for After Selma, a series that conveys McFadden's response to numerous recent incidents of police brutality.

After graduation from law school, Karen was a civil rights litigator whose practice focused primarily on employment discrimination, police brutality and housing discrimination.