Sentences with phrase «police killings of»

For instance, police killings of innocent people are on the rise in every major city of a state in this country.

Responding to the recent police killings of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling, this updated flag was a last minute addition to For Freedoms at Jack Shainman Gallery in New York (July 2016).

But on Thursday night, a version of that same flag, created by artist Dread Scott, flew in New York's Union Square as hundreds of people protested recent police killings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile.

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.

The film, from co-directors Byron Howard and Rich Moore, explores the kinds of social inequities — gender, racial and class bias — they saw unfolding during production in the national conversation as police killings of African American men sparked the Black Lives Matter movement.

The continuation, through Warren, of the retribution against white brutality exacted by Django is offered as cathartic, and Tarantino's sincere commitment to fighting racism is welcome given the current tensions provoked by police killings of black citizens in the United States.

«The problem of police killings of unarmed black victims should not be viewed merely as a problem of flawed action on the part of individual police officers, but more as a consequence of the broader problem of structural racism,» said senior author Michael Siegel, professor of community health sciences at BUSPH.

When Governor Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order on July 8 giving Attorney General Eric Schneiderman the authority to investigate police killings of unarmed civilians, he did something he rarely does: he empowered a rival.

The City Council opened its stated meeting Thursday with parallel protests over recent police killings of African - Americans, protests that sharply illustrated the different styles of a pair of black lawmakers from Brooklyn, both of whom insiders say aspire to lead the body after next year.

District Attorneys across New York are bristling at state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's new authority to investigate police killings of civilians.

ALBANY — State Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan says the creation of a special prosecutor to investigate police killings of civilians would represent a «radical departure» from traditional grand jury procedures.

Police killings of unarmed black men have grabbed the country's attention following the shooting death of Michael Brown by police in Ferguson, Mo. and the death of Garner on Staten Island.

Protesters said they had been moved to act by last week's police killings of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge and Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, Minn...

«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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Under Cuomo's plan, DAs will be able to issue the grand jury report or letter of facts when the police killing of an unarmed civilian is not presented to the grand jury or when the grand jury declines to indict.

The New York state attorney general's office said Thursday that it doesn't have jurisdiction in the police killing of a 66 - year - old emotionally disturbed woman who was shot when she attacked an officer with a baseball bat in the Bronx.

A U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Outstanding First Feature was presented to: Monsters and Men (Director & Screenwriter: Reinaldo Marcus Green, Producers: Elizabeth Lodge Stepp, Josh Penn, Eddie Vaisman, Julia Lebedev, Luca Borghese)-- This interwoven narrative explores the aftermath of a police killing of a black man.

Capturing the Baltimore protests in response to the 2015 police killing of Freddie Gray, Devin Allen's photographs went viral on social media and gained nationwide attention from mainstream media.

Finding deep connections to the Civil Rights movement, Edwards began his Lynch Fragment series in 1963, in the aftermath of the police killing of the Black Muslim Ronald T. Stokes.

BOOK In September, Devin Allen publishes «A Beautiful Ghetto,» a book of photographs celebrating the people and the city Baltimore in the wake of the police killing of Freddie Gray.

When Baltimore erupted in violence following the police killing of Freddie Gray, the city shut down.

Co-cinematographer Dan Peters, one of the core members of the production team for The Blood is at the Doorstep, 2014 Nohl Fellow Erik Ljung's film about the police killing of Dontre Hamilton, traveled to Austin, Texas for the SXSW (South by Southwest) Documentary Feature Competition, where the film received its world premiere.

Not exact matches

Hours after the attack in Kabul, a suicide bomber in a vehicle attacked a foreign military convoy in the southern province of Kandahar, killing 11 children studying in a nearby religious school, police said.

In the wake of three bomb attacks in Austin, Texas this month that killed two people, police have received 150 calls from residents about suspicious packages since two blasts rocked the city on Monday, according to CNN.

Tsarnaev is accused of killing three people and injuring 264 with a pair of homemade pressure - cooker bombs at the race's crowded finish line on April 15, 2013, and with fatally shooting a police officer three days later as he and his 26 - year - old brother, Tamerlan, tried to flee.

After a preliminary investigation, Police chief Sylvia Moir said that the collision that killed 49 - year - old Elaine Herzberg wasn't Uber's fault and the accident «would have been difficult to avoid» regardless of whether the other car was autonomous or human - driven.

A «single, lonely, and disturbed» man, armed with a handgun, drove 11 hours to the home of the YouTube celebrity couple Gavin Free and Meg Turney in Austin, Texas — evidently intending to kill Free, according to a police report.

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.

In the deadliest recent incident, a firefight erupted late Friday in the resort city of Mazatlan after a caller phoned police to report that an armed group had killed two men.

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.

Legal experts say a defense attorney's task to convince a jury that a client is legally insane is even more difficult in cases like that of Routh, who confessed to killing the men, apologized to the family and fled from police.

Alvear, 25, was identified by police on Monday as one of the 49 people killed by a gunman at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, in the worst mass shooting in U.S. history.

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 strife.

A roundup of gun control and violence studies by writer German Lopez at Vox shows Americans represent less than 5 % of the world population but possess nearly 50 % of the world's civilian - owned guns, police are about three times more likely to be killed in states with high gun ownership, countries with more guns see more gun deaths, and states with tighter gun control laws see fewer gun - related deaths, among other sobering statistics.

However it's frustrating to see that African Americans and Native Americans are being killed at significantly higher rates than any other group, especially when the police officers responsible for those deaths — those of Tamir Rice, Michael Brown, Freddie Gray, and Eric Garner to name a few — rarely face criminal charges.

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.

And as president, I will bring the full weight of the law to bear and making sure those who kill police officers are brought to justice.

ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters)- Panicked callers to 911 during June's mass shooting in Orlando told police of buildings hit by stray bullets and wounded friends stuck inside the gay nightclub where a gunman pledging allegiance to Islamic State killed 49 people.

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.

The deaths of Alton and Philando drove home how urgently we need to make reforms to policing and criminal justice... how we can not rest until we root out implicit bias and stop the killings of African - Americans.

He said the reason he won't talk to police is that they might kill him because of his outspoken criticism of the government.