Sentences with phrase «police killings across»

It reveals that the AG's own staff is worried about flaws in Cuomo's controversial July 8 executive order that handed responsibility in cases of killings by police to Schneiderman — an ally of the Rev. Al Sharpton — in the face of intense political pressure from black Democrats that resulted from the tragic death of Garner and other cases involving police killings across the country.

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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.
Last month, police arrested Joseph DeAngelo, the alleged Golden State Killer who is accused of killing multiple people across California in the 1970s and 1980s.
He added: «The renewed strategies adopted by the Nigeria Police Force to stop the incessant killings of innocent Nigerians and curtail the proliferation of firearms across the country, most especially in the North - Central States have been yielding positive results.»
City Councilmen Peter Koo (R - Flushing) and Peter Vallone Jr. (D - Astoria) held a rally for greater police presence in Flushing at the James A. Bland Community Center at 133 - 36 Roosevelt Ave., across the street from the Mobil gas station where Pakistani immigrant Nadeem Khan was killed July 25.
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 Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris has again shunned Senate's invitation to appear before them to update Senate on killings across the country..
Is it true that General Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma, popularly known as TY from the North has dropped a bombshell that Nigerian military and police are complicit in killings across Nigeria, especially in the North and he therefore asked citizens to defend themselves or they would all die?
«If a former governor is arrested and incarcerated for what they called incitement, what should the police have done to those Fulani herdsmen that have killed thousands of Nigerians across the country?
President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has said that the failure of the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, to show up for security briefing on the killings across the country is a threat to democracy.
«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.
«Our goal has always been to constructively work with the speaker to pass the Right to Know Act — she has a clear choice: support sound policy that a majority of her members, 18 families of New Yorkers killed by the NYPD and hundreds of community groups from across the city endorse, or chart a path that is increasingly antithetical to democracy and allows police abuses to continue.»
A Suffolk County political aide, a pair of siblings from Nassau County, an 81 - year - old man and a 10 - year - old boy were killed and six people injured Sunday after an out - of - control car careened across the LIE's grassy median near Manorville, went airborne, slammed into westbound traffic and broke into pieces, Suffolk police said.
Thousands of banner - waving protesters poured across the Brooklyn Bridge yesterday for a Manhattan rally condemning the killing of street peddler Amadou Diallo and police brutality.
District Attorneys across New York are bristling at state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's new authority to investigate police killings of civilians.
Idris had been summoned to address the Senate on the alleged inhuman treatment of Senator Dino Melaye during his arrest and detention by the police over alleged gun - running; and the spate of killings by armed herdsmen and militias across the country.
The attention of the Nigeria Police Force has been drawn to media publication credited to one Senator Sabi Aliyu Abdullahi, Chairman, Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs that «IGP should stop holding on to the straw on why he refused to comply with the invitation of the Senate for him to come and explain what the Police are doing on the spate of killing across the country».
As a writer of suspense / thrillers with quite a lot of police procedurals, I was bound to come across this kind of question within myself — should I, or should I not, include details of killings such as gory scenes, or torture?
Best known for teaching a «killology» class to police officers across the country (in one such class recorded for the documentary Do Not Resist, he told police trainees that they would enjoy the best sex of their lives after they killed someone, a «perk» they should «relax and enjoy»), Grossman wrote a book in 2016 titledAssassination Generation: Video Games, Aggression, and the Psychology of Killing, in which he argues that video games were creating a generation of violent murderers who could only be stopped with more guns.
MAGAZINE Issue 117 of Transition: The Magazine of Africa and the Diaspora is covered by a compelling photograph titled «Umfundi» from the Afronaut series by Cristina de Middel, and features an interview with architect David Adjaye about his design for the new Cooper Gallery of African and African American Art at Harvard University, and selections from the journal's online forum discussing police killings of unarmed black men across the nation.
LIKE SO MANY OTHER AMERICANS, artist Titus Kaphar has been struggling with how to respond to the shooting of Mike Brown in Ferguson, Mo., the choking death of Eric Garner in New York, and the countless other incidents involving police officers killing unarmed Black men and youth across the country.
The exhibition features a new series of Black Lives Matter paintings conceived by the Richmond, Va. - born artist in response to the Michael Brown and Eric Garner killings and the rallying of communities across the United States in protest of police use of lethal force on unarmed black men and youth.
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