Sentences with phrase «police killings of civilians for»

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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.

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.

Sharpton gave his own effective description Thursday during a press conference discussing the Eric Garner case, Sharpton's call for federally «centralizing» investigations of civilians killed by police and a planned march in Washington, D.C.

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.

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.

For instance, when activists pressured Cuomo to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate instances of police - involved killings of civilians, David was the go - between.

Tell Governor Cuomo to keep his commitment to the families of New Yorkers killed by police and sign the RIGHT executive order for a Special Prosecutor to investigate ALL cases of police - involved killings of civilians without a one year time limit!

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.

Police commissioner Bill Bratton expressed concern Wednesday over Governor Andrew Cuomo's call to have an independent monitor investigate when unarmed civilians are killed by police and his proposal to create statewide minimum standards for police use of Police commissioner Bill Bratton expressed concern Wednesday over Governor Andrew Cuomo's call to have an independent monitor investigate when unarmed civilians are killed by police and his proposal to create statewide minimum standards for police use of police and his proposal to create statewide minimum standards for police use of police use of force.

A day after activists and the families of civilians killed by police demonstrated outside Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Midtown office, they joined him at John Jay College as he signed an executive order making Attorney General Eric Schneiderman the special prosecutor for all cases statewide in which an officer is responsible for a civilian's death — making New York the first state to create such a role to oversee the controversial issue of police - involved homicides.