Sentences with phrase «police killed»

The International Day was proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in 1966, to coincide with the date in 1960 when police killed 69 people in Sharpeville, South Africa at a peaceful protest against apartheid laws.

Despite being a baby with her whole life ahead of her, Suffolk police killed her:

Fryer said that after the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., and other recent cases in which police killed unarmed black civilians, Fryer felt he had to know more.

«One month ago, an officer from the border police killed a refugee from Afghanistan,» director Stephan Komandarev told moderator Sharon Waxman at TheWrap's Award Screening Series at the Landmark Theater in Los Angeles on Thursday.

Police killed Farook and Malik in a shoot - out, leaving law enforcement without any means of obtaining the iPhone's passcode unless it was written down somewhere.

The authors propose that all law enforcement - related deaths — including people killed by police as well as police killed in the line of duty — be treated not just as criminal data but as a «notifiable condition,» and that they be reported to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) by public health and medical professionals and published on a weekly basis, as are a host of other conditions ranging from poisonings to pertussis to polio.

«I have spoken to the Garner family and we are outraged by the early reports of the police killed in Brooklyn today.

Mayors and other top city officials routinely attend funerals for police killed in the line of duty, which are rare but somber occasions in New York City.

«Video evidence in the public domain proved that the police killed, maimed, snatched result sheets and ballot boxes as they assisted the APC all through the ill - fated rerun elections.

White plains Police Department is also the police department where police killed retired Correction Officer Kenneth Chamberlain Sr. when they responded to a life aide alert.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo in Utica on Friday paused for a moment of silence following a week of violence in which police killed two black men and five police officers were shot dead in Dallas on Thursday night.

As the rally wrapped up, Ms. Mallory also plugged Gathering for Justice and a protest scheduled for June 2 to honor Ramarley Graham, an unarmed black youth police killed in his Bronx home in 2012.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued an executive order last year that authorized Schneiderman to investigate cases where police killed unarmed civilians and cases where «there is a significant question as to whether the civilian was armed and dangerous at the time of his or her death.»

The police killed him in a shootout, and searched his car, finding the corpses of Gonzales» children.

They took real risks: the police killed somewhere near 100 people, but their bravery brought down Viktor Yanokovich's government and helped to save their democracy.

Human rights groups have said that police killed at least 24 people in unrest after the election.

Accius is the man who led a horde of protesters to shut down entry to the Golden 1 Center for a March 22 Sacramento Kings» basketball game, four days after police killed Stephon Clark.

Police killed the believed - attacker shortly after the incident.

Some said it seemed opportunistic and inappropriate at a time of national protests over police killings of unarmed black men.

Long before they were rocked this month by local police killings of black men, the two U.S. cities were grappling with similar problems — police forces viewed by many as overly aggressive and unrepresentative of black communities.

Jay Z even drew parallels between his situation and the police killings of young black men such as Michael Brown and Freddie Gray.

In the wake of police killings in Ferguson, Missouri and Baltimore, Maryland, the Justice Department under Barack Obama...

In the wake of police killings in Ferguson, Missouri and Baltimore, Maryland, the Justice Department under Barack Obama investigated specific police departments as a measure of accountability.

Demonstrators surrounded a basketball arena in downtown Sacramento to protest the police killing another unarmed black man.

These numbers, compared to deaths caused by police killings, military actions, or abortions, are vanishingly small.

At one point, it was stated that in 2015, police killings were up by 7.9 % over the previous year.

My own daughter said, «Daddy I'm scared for you because when police kill black men [they] don't get in trouble!»

the issue is that you and your ilk want to blame him as if all of this suddenly happened when he was elected... as if racism and these police killings suddenly started under Trump....

especially when statistics clearly show that there is no big conspiracy going on... only 20 % of police killings are perpetrated against black people....80 % against other races....

A video of Coeymans police killing a rabid raccoon last Monday by chasing it down and running over it over with their vehicles that went viral spurred a call for statewide animal control reform.

Schneiderman's office will handle cases in which police kill an unarmed suspect, or when there is a question of whether the suspect was armed.

Andrew Cuomo begins his second term in office amid strife over the police killing of Eric Garner, an unarmed citizen in State Island who was selling illegal cigarettes, and the murder of two police officers.

The executive order enables the attorney general to step in and supercede county district attorneys in cases where police kill an unarmed civilian or in cases where there are questions about whether the civilian who was killed was armed or dangerous.

Bronx District Attorney Robert Johnson questioned whether the Attorney General's office «has the necessary resources» to handle the «intricate investigations» of police killing cases.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman on Monday asked Governor Andrew Cuomo for the power to investigate and prosecute cases in which police kill unarmed civilians.

Yet Mr. Schneiderman, with his measured criticism of Mr. Cuomo and his success in convincing the governor to make him a special prosecutor in cases of police killing unarmed civilians, is only seeing his stock rise.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, a Democrat, asked Governor Andrew Cuomo in December for the ability to investigate cases in which police kill unarmed civilians.

Whenever the police kill, brutalize, or otherwise violate a citizen's civil rights, the US Department of Justice should be brought in to investigate and file charges if warranted because the DA's and police are constant collaborators.

The governor's reforms would allow district attorneys like Mr. Donovan to issue a report or letter of fact outlining what occurred in closed grand jury room in cases of police killings, without having to beseech a judge to release that information.

Last year, Cuomo appointed Attorney General Eric Schneiderman a special prosecutor in cases in which police kill civilians.

In fact, the false Ferguson narrative stuck because of concern over a distressing pattern of other police killings of unarmed African American men and boys around the time of Brown's death.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office on Thursday released its first report on his office's role in reviewing, investigating and prosecuting cases in which police kill unarmed civilians.

«We remain committed to demanding an executive order for a special prosecutor for all police killings, because establishing prosecution that is independent and external of local DAs is the only way to resolve the conflict of interest that has systemically failed to provide justice in these cases within our state and across the nation,» the group said in a joint statement.

Governor Cuomo announced an executive order for a Special Prosecutor that would give New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman the power to prosecute police killings.

The proposal falls short of a request by Attorney General Eric Schneiderman that he be appointed as a special prosecutor to review police killings of unarmed civilians.

If President Obama's Task Force on 21st Century Policing — that included police commissioners and law enforcement experts — did not include loopholes in their recommendation for independent prosecutors in police killings, neither should Governor Cuomo's executive order.

NEW YORK CITY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he would issue an executive order appointing a special prosecutor to investigate police killings if the legislature fails to approve his plan to create an independent monitor.

Following the tragic 1999 police killing of Amadou Diallo, an innocent and unarmed Bronx man, NYPD Commissioner Howard Safir named Katz to an advisory council for an up and down review of training procedures.

Another Aug. 23 post from Toribio, who is a registered Republican, was highly critical of the Black Lives Matter movement which has focused on ending police killings of blacks and people of color in this country.

«This perception is creating much of the current acrimony over the recent police killings of New York citizens,» Richard Condon, then the state's executive director of Criminal Justice Services, wrote.