Sentences with phrase «police harassment»

If you faced police harassment or violence that the police refused to act on because you are trans, that is persecution.

From time to time each of these churches has special programs dealing with homosexual concerns, such as police harassment and brutality.

But the conversation quickly turned to the often under - discussed barriers to mobility, such as safety and police harassment fears.

I thank Dr. King for what he did for me, having witnessed the Stonewall event myself, realizing that without Dr. King's activities, those people might not have had the courage to stand up against the New York City police harassment and persecution.

BY NATHAN RILEY A legislative proposal in Albany to reduce stigma, curb police harassment of drug users, and improve access to clean needles demonstrated broad support at a January 15 press conference in Manhattan.

He argued that the bill was designed to prevent recent immigrants and poor people from profiting from tourism, and would encourage police harassment of performers.

The Lilu community in the Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra State on Thursday protested at the Anambra State Government House, Awka, over alleged police harassment.

Crime is down and Brooklyn is hip, but young black men face too much police harassment and economic opportunities for the poorest New Yorkers are grim and show no promising signs of improvement.

Even when N.W.A makes it big in the music industry, they are still the targets of random police harassment.

And the weirdness of being Black in Asia is that you can be a celebrity with crowds being friendly and wanting to take photos of you, touch your hair, compare their light skin with yours, to the potential for blatant racism with police harassment and being denied accommodation because of «safety.»

Yet it is his socially engaged pieces that, at their core, respond with sociohistorical specificity to the image and underlying slow violence (Rob Nixon) of the burning car — or in other words, the violence of economic precarity, racism, ghettoisation, and police harassment in the marginalised suburbs of major European cities.

Some have also accused it of being instrumental in perpetuating and increasing police harassment, misconduct, and the use of excessive force in minority communities.

Naomi McAuliffe, Amnesty International's programme Director in Scotland, said her organisation received regular reports that LGBT people faced police harassment, while repressive attitudes towards LGBT Ghanaians meant they were vulnerable to discrimination and physical attacks.

This is not equivalent to the misuse of Ripa surveillance laws by local councils or police harassment of innocent photographers which affect much larger groups of people and were enthusiastically opposed by the Conservatives.

The details: Blockbuster action director Roland Emmerich works small for a change, recreating New York's 1969 «Stonewall Riots» — a pivotal moment in the gay - rights movement, which signaled that the LGBT community would no longer let a fear of public exposure prevent it from standing up to police harassment.

Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Eazy - E, DJ Yella and MC Ren exploded onto the scene in a whirlwind of sex, drugs and inordinate amounts of police harassment.

Certainly, Hispanics suffer discrimination, some of it severe — police harassment of black and brown adolescents, accompanied by high incarceration rates, and the nativist - driven rollback of bilingual education programs come to mind — but the undeniable hardship faced by recent, non-English speaking, unskilled, low - wage immigrants is not equivalent to blacks» centuries of lower - caste status.

Other issues faced by the community included access to housing and adequate medical care, police harassment, imprisonment, engagement in sex work, and a high rate of suicidal ideation and suicide attempts.