The Rev. Al Sharpton challenged the National Rifle Association to defend the gun rights of two black men killed in
police encounters last week in Louisiana and Minnesota.
Not exact matches
Authorities in Baton Rouge
last week thwarted a planned attack on
police officers days after the shooting of Alton Sterling, a 37 - year - old black man who was killed by
police in an
encounter that was largely captured on video and raised widespread concerns about the officers» actions.
A
police report that became public
last month, after a sexual assault case against Bryant was dropped, reveals that on July 2, 2003, shortly after the incident in a Colorado hotel room that changed his life, Bryant told investigators that Shaq had paid women up to $ 1 million to remain silent about sexual
encounters.
Cuomo signed the executive order
last July in the wake of a series of controversial and fatal
encounters between
police and unarmed civilians in New York and across the nation.
Schneiderman is acting for the first time under an order issued
last month by Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo giving the attorney general authority in cases in which people die in
encounters with
police.
Cuomo signed the order after Abelove challenged an executive order
last July giving the attorney general jurisdiction to investigate incidents in which unarmed civilians are killed during
encounters with
police.
GLENVILLE — The state Attorney General's office will not investigate the circumstances surrounding an
encounter last month where
police shot and killed a local man they said accosted them with a knife during a bogus domestic dispute call.
After
last year's fatal
police shooting of a man in Ferguson, Missouri, and after a man died in an apparent
police chokehold in Staten Island, New York, the district attorney in Orange County has announced a protocol for officer - involved deadly - force
encounters.