Sentences with phrase «police critics»

De Blasio put the Rev. Al Sharpton, an outspoken police critic, on a City Hall roundtable following Garner's death and, after a grand jury's decision not to indict in the case, spoke about cautioning his biracial son about interactions with police.

Still, some African - American leaders have expressed frustration with Mr. de Blasio for not bringing about criminal justice reform quickly enough while endorsing the «broken windows» style of policing that critics say singles out low - income minorities.

Manhattan - based defense attorney Neville Mitchell, a frequent police critic who is the son of a Jamaican cop, will run against as many as eight other candidates to represent District 12 in The Bronx, which includes Baychester, Co-op City, Edenwalk, Wakefield and Williamsbridge.

Former NYPD officer Peter Liang was cleared of manslaughter and given probation by a Brooklyn judge Tuesday in the 2014 killing of an unarmed black man in a dark stairwell — a ruling that set off tears and denunciations from the victim's relatives and police critics.

International Russia says to retaliate soon for UK's expulsion of diplomats over nerve attack, Reuters Marielle Franco, councillor and police critic, shot dead in targeted killing in Rio, The Guardian