Sentences with phrase «police killing black»

One of his paintings is an image of Philando Castille that should have generated a public conversation about police killing black men, but its impact has been muted by the controversy over a Dana Schutz painting of Emmett Till in his coffin, that also appears in the biennial exhibition.

He discussed his views on police killing black men; announced his first presentation in Washington, D.C., a 360 - degree mural at the Hirshhorn Museum set to debut in November 2016; and revealed what inspires him at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

PERFORMANCE > Artist Dread Scott joins protestors in Union Square demonstrating against police killing black men, bringing a huge black flag, holding it aloft for all to see the words emblazoned on it in white: «A Man Was Lynched By Police Yesterday.»

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

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

The killing of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri has catapulted the quiet, yet steady, militarization of police forces across the U.S. to global attention.

The deaths of Brown and Garner made national headlines, but according to a recent report by the FBI, there was an average of 96 cases per year, from 2006 to 2012, of a white police officer killing a black person.

But new was the artist's social justice embrace of the Black Lives Matter movement — several videos on Lemonade and her song Formation prominently feature black women whose loved ones were killed by police — and thinly - veiled, sordid details of the singer's apparent marital stBlack Lives Matter movement — several videos on Lemonade and her song Formation prominently feature black women whose loved ones were killed by police — and thinly - veiled, sordid details of the singer's apparent marital stblack women whose loved ones were killed by police — and thinly - veiled, sordid details of the singer's apparent marital strife.

The black voters in Philly, and I say this based on 30 years of picking juries and talking to them, are more likely to have a family member who is a police officer, a family member who is in jail, and a family member who has been killed or severely victimized.

We were cruelly reminded of that with the recent deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, two more black man killed in police incidents, this time in Louisiana and Minnesota.

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.

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.

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

Police have identified Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, as the «black hat» bombing suspect, killed during the manhunt that followed.

Yesterday afternoon in New York City, police officers shot and killed a black man after he pointed a metal pipe at the officers and they confused it for a gun,...

Five days after the start of this series, on August 9, St. Louis police shot and killed an unarmed 18 - year - old black man named Michael Brown.

That third definition of Black Lives Matter is often one we hear the most, the one people say affirms the killing of police, affirms the hatred and blaming of white people.

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

People, black or white, who rob stores and then attack the police will be possibly be killed by the police.

His death, and the subsequent killings of unarmed black men and women at the hands of the police, have lifted the conversation on race out of black households and onto the national stage.

One study suggests that in 2012, a black man was killed every 28 hours by police, security guards, or self - appointed vigilantes.

Domestically it has looked like many black men and women being incarcerated and killed by police.

As The Post noted in a new analysis published last week, that means black Americans are 2.5 times as likely as white Americans to be shot and killed by police officers.

We haven't even talked about law enforcement yet and the effect that systemic racial profiling and killings by police have on black communities.

CHARLOTTE — Keith Lamont Scott became the latest in the alarming and depressing trend of black men killed by police when his body wilted and hit burning asphalt on Sept. 20.

Black men were 67 percent of those killed by CMPD since 2013, according to data collected by Campaign Zero — a data - driven platform that presents solutions to end police violence in America.

Scott's killing ignited a flame long dormant in many black folk around Charlotte about the daily oppression they face in searching for housing, escaping poverty, and policing.

as statistics clearly show, less than 20 % of the people killed this year by police have been black... but, the media and the race baiters continue to make a big issue whenever the victim is black... what about the other 80 %?

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....

Not to mention, the lack of resource facilities in neighborhoods like Meadowview and a use of force issue making Clark the fifth black person Sacramento police have killed since 2015.

Kaepernick thought that unarmed and harmless minorities, black people especially, shouldn't be killed by the same police officers tasked with protecting them.

The team also wore t - shirts with «Change Starts With Us: Justice & Accountability» written on the front and the names of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile as well as the Dallas Police Department emblem on the back to honor and mourn the losses of two black men shot and killed by police and five officers killed on duty lastPolice Department emblem on the back to honor and mourn the losses of two black men shot and killed by police and five officers killed on duty lastpolice and five officers killed on duty last week.

A leaker revealed the disciplinary records of the NYPD officer who killed Eric Garner, Daniel Pantaleo, giving the police department another black eye.

Speaking shortly after Mayor Bill de Blasio at the Brooklyn funeral home that hosted Liu's burial service, Mr. Bratton seemed to strike back at accusations of racism and overbearing policing from protesters enraged at the killing of black Staten Islander Eric Garner at the hands of NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo.

Who would have thought that a 70 - year - old former Black Panther, granted parole after 45 years in prison for the 1971 killing of two New York City police officers, would bring you two together?

Clinton cited recent incidents of unarmed black men around the country being killed by police such as Freddie Gray in Baltimore, Tamir Rice in Cleveland and Garner, who she said was «choked to death after being stopped for selling cigarettes on the streets of our city,» in Staten Island.

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.

Clinton's spent many Sundays visiting black churches and made gun violence and police shootings a platform of her campaign through talks with African - American mothers whose children were killed.

Cuomo noted the local protesters who have taken strong exception to police conduct and the recent killings of unarmed black men nationwide.

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.

«A majority of Democrats, independents, voters from every region and race agree that the Attorney General and not local district attorneys should have authority in cases where unarmed civilians are killed by police officers, although Democrats, New York City voters, blacks and Latinos feel most strongly about this,» Siena College pollster Steve Greenberg said.

A coalition of Republican Senators and police unions has launched an online petition urging the state parole board not to release a former Black Panther who was convicted of killing two New York City police officers — Joseph Piagentini and Waverly Jones — in 1971.

Also dead behind bars: Anthony Laborde, 62, a member of the Black Liberation Army who killed Police Officer John Scaragella in 1981.

Nicole Bell, whose fiancé, Sean Bell, became a symbol of tensions between black communities and the police after he was shot and killed by New York officers on the morning of their wedding day, has endorsed Clinton two weeks before the New York primary.

Add these locations and names to the long list of young black unarmed men (and women) who are racially profiled and injured or killed at the hands of Police Departments around the country.

But no matter how much blacks raise their voices against indiscriminate police violence «the killings keep coming.»

The recent killing of two police officers has only inflamed the rift that has grown exponentially worse since Garner, a 43 - year - old black father of six from Stapleton, was killed by a white police officer in Tompkinsville.

The move comes in the wake of a spate of killings of unarmed black men by police officers around the country.

In September, family and friend of victims of police crimes in Westchester rallied in front of US Attorney Preet Bharara to demand federal investigations into questionable investigations of the killings of many black men by the Westchester DA's office.

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.