Sentences with phrase «police brutality around»

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«It seems so timely right now as we have these conversations about the football players kneeling during the anthem at the NFL games, led by Colin Kaepernick and the controversy that's arisen around it,» he says, referencing the demonstrations by dozens of NFL players protesting racial injustice and police brutality.

Their CopWatch programme recorded instances of police brutality — a cultural change which allowed images of police nonchalantly pepper - spraying protestors to go viral around the world.

With protests breaking out around the country against police brutality, Hakeem Jeffries introduced a bill to ban police chokeholds, the irresponsible practice which led to the death of Eric Garner last year.

Anthonine Pierre, a spokeswoman for Communities United for Police Reform and lead organizer at Brooklyn Movement Center said Tuesday the speaker's announcement was «beyond disappointing,» given the state of police brutality and movements to reform policing around the coPolice Reform and lead organizer at Brooklyn Movement Center said Tuesday the speaker's announcement was «beyond disappointing,» given the state of police brutality and movements to reform policing around the copolice brutality and movements to reform policing around the country.

The deal between the speaker and the police commissioner also comes as protests against police brutality roil around the country.

The movie centers around themes of race and police brutality.

In a heartbeat, all the political rhetoric around police brutality and institutional racism falls away.

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.

With discussions about immigration growing ever more heated, and groups such as Black Lives Matter UK are raising awareness around issues such as police brutality and racism in Britain, this unmissable exhibition feels timely.

How to maximize being a pro athlete to facilitate conversation and action around issues such as police brutality, gender equality and gay rights.

Around the time of the lock hospitals, Aboriginal people in WA were active in drawing public and political attention to wide - ranging injustices, including police brutality, their exclusion from schools and general health services, and other policies of segregation.