Sentences with phrase «police killing unarmed»

NEWS In the wake of the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, nationwide protests against police killing unarmed Black men and youth reach Miami Dec. 5, shutting down I - 95 and blocking traffic in Midtown and Wynwood during Art Basel Miami Beach.

Meanwhile, ongoing news surrounding U.S. police killing unarmed Black men and youth inspired artistic responses around the world.

Jeffries presented Cuomo with an award marking Cuomo's Executive Order 147, which appointed the attorney general as a special prosecutor in all cases of police killing 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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

Cuomo's feud with de Blasio appears to be helping insulate him from backlash he has faced from police unions for signing an executive order giving the Attorney General the ability to act as special prosecutor in cases where police kill unarmed civilians.

Cuomo took on Raise the Age as part of a slate of criminal justice reforms in 2015, which included the establishment of a special prosecutor for cases in which police kill an unarmed civilian.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

At a press conference this morning, Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson identified Officer Darren Wilson as the officer who shot and killed unarmed 18 - year - old Michael Brown.

This statistic rang true as I turned on my computer Saturday evening, scrolled through my Twitter feed, and saw #Ferguson, #MikeBrown, and other references to a police shooting where an unarmed teenager was killed in suburban St. Louis.

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.

Immediately, I discovered that two more young unarmed men had been killed by police.

New footage from the scene where unarmed 12 - year - old Tamir Rice was shot and killed by police shows Rice's 14 - year - old sister running up minutes after he was shot, only to be...

New footage from the scene where unarmed 12 - year - old Tamir Rice was shot and killed by police shows Rice's 14 - year - old sister running up minutes after he was shot, only to be knocked to the ground by police officers.

Not all evangelicals believed that Darren Wilson, a Ferguson, Missouri, police officer who killed unarmed teenager Michael Brown in August, should have been indicted in a recent grand jury hearing.

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.

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

Cuomo, saying there is a «crisis of confidence» in the criminal justice system, signed an executive order to have the state's attorney general take over from local district attorneys, anytime a unarmed civilian is killed in an encounter with police, and there are questions about what happened.

The order appoints the state attorney general as a special prosecutor in cases where unarmed suspects are killed by police, or when there is a question about whether a suspect was armed or not.

The charges against Mubarak are gruesome: it is alleged that he ordered tortures and authorised the brutalities of the secret police, that he sent out snipers to shoot and kill innocent and unarmed protestors during the January - February revolution, and that he conducted corruption on a grand scale, taking millions from the state coffers through a dodgy deal to supply gas.

A state Supreme Court justice has thrown out a petition by Rensselaer County District Attorney Joel E. Abelove that sought to undo the state attorney general's power to take over cases in which unarmed civilians are killed by police.

The family of Akai Gurley, the unarmed man shot and killed in a Brooklyn housing - project stairwell by a police officer last year, has filed a wrongful - death lawsuit against New York City.

In a letter sent to Cuomo on Monday, Atty. Gen. Eric Schneiderman asked for the power to independently investigate the killing of any unarmed civilian by a police officer in the state, effectively removing local district attorneys from the equation.

Three district attorneys have joined Rensselaer County District Attorney Joel Abelove in challenging the constitutionality of an executive order Cuomo signed two years ago allowing the state attorney general to intervene in cases where unarmed civilians are killed during confrontations with police.

Cuomo said the order was necessary because there is a «crisis of confidence in the criminal justice system» following several high profile cases in New York City and across the country where police have killed unarmed men.

The latter plaque recognized the governor for signing an executive order last June that made state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman the special prosecutor for all cases where a police officer kills a possibly unarmed civilian, which Mr. Sharpton called «the only national model» for handling deaths at the hands of local law enforcement.

Last year, Governor Andrew Cuomo gave Attorney General Eric Schneiderman the green light to investigate whenever police in any New York community kill unarmed suspects.

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.

One major issue that will not be resolved in the next two weeks is how to reform the state's criminal justice system to restore public trust when an unarmed civilian is killed in a confrontation with police.

The attorney general's office has authority under an executive order signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2015 to enter cases in which unarmed civilians are killed during confrontations with police.

After the governor's proposals to elevate the threshold of adult criminality to 18 years and to create a special monitor to review cases where a grand jury decides not to indict a police officer for killing a potentially unarmed civilian failed to make headway in the State Senate, Mr. Cuomo rolled out a pair of executive orders.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo mentioned the Garner case when he appointed Attorney General Eric Schneiderman as a special prosecutor to handle cases where unarmed civilians are killed by police.

The two killings, on top of fatal police encounters elsewhere in the country, helped spark protests nationwide, calling for law enforcement officials to be held accountable for killing unarmed civilians.

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.

ALBANY — The Republican - led Senate finance committee on Wednesday declined to vote a bill out of committee that would allow the attorney general to investigate cases in which an unarmed civilian is killed during an interaction with police.

«If there's a shooting up in Buffalo, New York, a young unarmed guy is killed by the police up there, a special prosecutor is supposed to swoop down and deal with it but what happens if something breaks out in Brooklyn a week later and it breaks in Syracuse — how is this person supposed to tell the folks up in Buffalo, «Hold on, I'll be back, I've got ta go to Brooklyn?»»

During his annual State of the State speech, Cuomo, a Democrat, announced a seven - point program to address criminal justice reforms, which included an independent monitor to investigate cases when unarmed civilians are killed by police.

The family and supporters of Akai Gurley said they are outraged that the prosecutor who got a felony manslaughter conviction against the police officer who shot and killed the unarmed Brooklyn resident is now recommending the shooter serve no jail time.

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.

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.

Ramarley Graham was an unarmed Bronx teen shot and killed in his family's apartment by a police officer last year.

An unarmed West African immigrant with no criminal record, Diallo, then 22 years old, was killed in the Bronx on Feb. 5th, 1999 by police bullets in the Bronx.