Sentences with phrase «police shooting deaths»

Police Encounters and Mental Health 5 key cases of police shooting deaths involving mentally ill individuals, August 27, 2014 CBC News.

The results of a grand jury investigation into Rensselaer County District Attorney Joel E. Abelove's handling of the 2016 police shooting death will be revealed at 1 p.m. Friday, Dec. 1.

Reacting to the police shooting death of an unarmed man in a Brooklyn housing project on Thursday night, City Councilman Jumaane Williams said a new strategy announced by NYPD commissioner Bill Bratton that would remove rookie cops from crime - ridden patrols has not been implemented.

TROY — The results of a grand jury investigation into Rensselaer County District Attorney Joel E. Abelove's handling of the 2016 police shooting death will be revealed at 1 p.m. Friday, Dec. 1.

Thompson also brushed off calls for a special prosecutor in the police shooting death of Akai Gurley, an unarmed black man fatally shot by a rookie cop in the stairwell of a Brooklyn public housing complex.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has withdrawn his lawsuit against Rensselaer County District Attorney Joel Abelove stemming from the police shooting death of an area man.

Via Archive - It, the Internet Archive is building a comprehensive collection of information and discussion related to the August 2014 police shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.

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The week began with the death of Alton Sterling, a 37 - year - old black man who was shot multiple times by police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana as he lay on the ground outside a convenience store.

The powerful video portrayed, with frank brutality, the October 2014 death of 17 - year - old Laquan McDonald at the hands of a police officer who shot the teenager 16 times.

When Philando Castile was shot by police during a routine roadside stop in Minneapolis, and his death was filmed by his girlfriend Lavish Reynolds as her daughter sat in the back seat, the footage helped galvanize protests about police violence against blacks in the U.S.

The shooting death of an 18 - year - old black man named Michael Brown by a 28 - year - old white police officer, and the weeks of protest that followed.

The shooting death of a 12 - year - old black boy named Tamir Rice by two white Cleveland Police Department officers.

There have also been increased tensions in the U.S. following the recent deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, leading to police shootings in Dallas and Baton Rouge.

Coral Gables police officers won't face charges for death of Aviel Gutierrez, who died in December 2016 after he was shot with a Taser stun gun during a bizarre confrontation.

Protests occurred again in September after a white former St. Louis police officer was acquitted in the shooting death of another black man in 2011.

At least 19 people have been shot or hacked to death in a brutal attack in a village in north - west Nigeria, police say.

-- «State senators condemn fatal police shooting of Stephon Clark,» by LATimes» Patrick McGreevy: «Lawmakers» tempers flared Monday as the California Senate adjourned in memory of Stephon Clark, an unarmed African American man who was shot to death by Sacramento police officers on March 18.

6 Nov: Two killed in Jerusalem van attack 8 Nov: Police shoot an Israeli Arab after attempted knife attack 10 Nov: Two Israelis stabbed to death 11 Nov: Palestinian being shot dead following protests 17 Nov: Palestinian bus driver found hanged in Jerusalem

Meanwhile, police in North Carolina tried to determine whether the shooting deaths of three Muslim students were hate - motivated.

The man then got out of his «large vehicle,» stabbed a police officer to death and was then shot by police.

Police are looking into mistaken identlty as a motive in the shooting death of an Army veteran outside of Los Angeles.

Police Officer Darren Wilson — who was recently cleared by a grand jury in the shooting death of unarmed teen Michael Brown — recently sat down with ABC News, telling George Stephanopoulos, «The reason I have a clean conscience is that I know I did my job right.»

A day after Davis was executed in Georgia for the 1989 shooting death of Mark MacPhail, an off - duty police officer, one contributor to The Daily Beast asked this question:

The same year the Nevada Wolfpack went 13 - 1 behind Kaepernick, a 7 - year - old girl named Aiyana Jones was shot to death by a police officer during a no - knock police raid on a house in Detroit, Michigan.

Lewis, of the 6600 block of North Greenview Avenue, was shot to death in the 1300 block of West Devon Avenue Saturday afternoon less than half a mile from his home, according to police, his family and authorities.

Orland Park police launched an investigation Wednesday into the shooting death of a 58 - year - old woman, authorities said.

A Glen Ellyn police officer involved in the controversial shooting death of an unarmed man in April helped rescue an Addison man from a burning vehicle Tuesday in Lombard.

The comments come as lawmakers will be mulling potential changes to the state's criminal justice system in the wake of the Eric Garner decision as well as the shooting deaths of two New York City police officers.

The family of an off - duty parole officer who was shot and killed by a Canandaigua police officer says it plans to file a wrongful death lawsuit.

Police say a woman has been found shot to death with her hands bound inside a New York City public housing apartment.

Police are one step closer to finding the suspects responsible for the death of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's aide Carey Gabay, who was fatally shot in September before the West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn.

New York State Police are investigating a shooting outside a bar in northern New York over the weekend that led to the death of a man.

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.

Oyeyemi regretted that this month alone FRSC operatives have been shot by the police in Abia, patrol van burnt in Jigawa state while another operative was almost strangled to death in Oyo State.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday mourned the recent shooting deaths of police officers in New York, praising law enforcement for putting themselves in harm's way.

A jury earlier this year convicted New York City Police Officer Peter Liang in the shooting death of Akai Gurley, a conviction that was condemned by some members of the city's Asian community.

Abelove's charges, unsealed in an indictment on Friday, stem from Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office accusing him of failing to notify state officials after the death of Edson Thevenin, who was shot by a Troy police officer in 2016.

The US Justice Department has cleared a Ferguson, Mo., police officer of civil rights violations in the shooting of Michael Brown, a black teenager whose death set off racially charged and sometimes violent protests last year.

The Metropolitan Police today admitted making a «mess» of the aftermath of Mark Duggan's death and promised to be much quicker in talking to relatives of people shot by officers in future.

Last New Year's Eve, in the late afternoon on a crowded corner in downtown Albany, pedestrian David Scaringe was accidentally shot to death by a police officer during a DWI pursuit.

Mr. Thompson is now in the spotlight after grand juries failed to indict police in the cases of Garner and Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. because he empaneled a grand jury to decide whether a unarmed Brooklyn man shot to death by a police officer last month should be indicted.

The heightened spotlight on the issue of police brutality comes on the heels of the recent deaths of African - American men at the hands of the police and the fatal shootings of police officers in Louisiana, Minnesota and Texas.

This weekend, an openly gay man was shot to death after a confrontation in Greenwich Village Friday in what police commissioner Ray Kelly is calling a hate crime.

«The city is in mourning,» Mayor Bill de Blasio said after the shooting death of a police sergeant who was responding to a call.

Police have arrested a man and 16 - year - old boy in connection with the shooting death of a young mother in Mott Haven on Tuesday afternoon.

The extraordinary seizure was part of an ongoing probe by the attorney general into Abelove's controversial handling of a case in which a Troy police officer was cleared in the April 2016 shooting death of a DWI suspect.

The two officers were shot --» assassinated,» as the mayor and police commissioner put it — through the window of their patrol car by 28 - year - old Ismaaiyl Brinsley, who posted on social media that he was out for revenge for the police - related deaths of unarmed black men, Eric Garner and Michael Brown.

The DN is out today with an editorial siding with the NYPD in the death of Darrius Kennedy, a knife - wielding man, who was shot by police in Times Square on Sunday.

He called the shooting death of the cops the «direct spinoff» of anti-police-brutality protests that the sympathetic mayor had allowed to take over city streets, blamed marijuana — which, thanks to the mayor, you can now carry a larger quantity of without getting locked up — for a spike in murders, has proudly declared stop - and - frisk isn't going away, and has repeatedly broken with the mayor on the subject of how many more cops the city needs (the mayor has said none, the police commissioner now says at least 1,000).

Rensselaer County D.A. Joel Abelove says because Faison was armed, the shooting does not fall under the recent executive order from Governor Andrew Cuomo empowering Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to review police - citizen encounters that end in a civilian death.