Sentences with phrase «police shootings in»

A new study on police force found no bias against black civilians in police shootings in 10 cities and counties, including Houston.

In response to the civil unrest that followed high - profile police shootings in places like Ferguson, Missouri, police departments across the country are adjusting their training protocols.

Also at 6 p.m., Orange County Executive Steven Neuhaus, county District Attorney David Hoovler, county Sheriff Carl DuBois and members of the law enforcement community hold vigil to pay tribute to the victims of the police shootings in Dallas, Texas, Orange County Sheriff's office; 110 Wells Farm Rd., Goshen.

In the 81 grand jury investigations of police shootings in Dallas between 2008 and 2012, only 1 resulted in an indictment.

Johnson, 25, was the sniper who targeted the officers at the conclusion of a peaceful march July 7 in downtown Dallas, where demonstrators were protesting fatal police shootings in Minnesota and Louisiana.

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.

Friday: Questions for Delaine Eastin, protests over a police shooting in Sacramento, #DeleteFacebook and the weekend's gun marches.

The case, along with a police shooting in Missouri of teenager Michael Brown that led to no charges of a local police officer there, led to a series of protests in cities around the country and a debate over police tactics as well as calls to reform the criminal justice system.

On Friday, an ex-con from the Bronx held a family in Albany hostage for 15 hours before police shot him in the chest and took him into custody.

A former Rensselaer County assistant district attorney testified Friday before a special grand jury that's investigating whether District Attorney Joel E. Abelove violated any laws in his controversial handling of an April 2016 fatal police shooting in Troy.

Also Monday, lawmakers approved a $ 4.5 million settlement for the family of Andrea Rebello, a Hofstra University student who was killed accidentally in an off - campus police shooting in 2013.

RENSSELAER — A former Rensselaer County assistant district attorney testified Friday before a special grand jury that's investigating whether District Attorney Joel E. Abelove violated any laws in his controversial handling of an April 2016 fatal police shooting in Troy.

As many are focused on the grand jury's decision in the police shooting of an unarmed man in Missouri, New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton tonight shot down «inflammatory rhetoric» in the wake of a police shooting in Brooklyn.

A chrome Colt.45 caliber handgun, recovered from the scene of a police shooting in the Bronx.

The plot interweaves the story of what happens in the aftermath of a police shooting in Brooklyn's Bed - Stuy neighborhood told through the eyes of the bystander who filmed the act, a black police officer and a high school baseball phenom inspired to take a stand, showing the impact of racism and violence on a community.

Normandy High School was soon in the national headlines for another reason: the fatal police shooting in nearby Ferguson of Michael Brown, who had graduated from the school days before.

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The incident comes at a time when police agencies in the US have made headlines for fatally shooting suspects during encounters in which the suspect was suffering from the affects of mental illness or, in many more cases, did not have a weapon.

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Think about a VR version of the night that Michael Brown was shot by a police officer in Ferguson, Mo..

In a second press conference Saturday night, Santa Babara police revealed more details of the shooting.

A video published on the Toronto Star website showed the man standing in front of the Ryder van, pointing an object at a police offer, asking him to «shoot me in the head.»

On Thursday night, shots rang out during an otherwise peaceful protest in Dallas, and within a matter of minutes three police officers were dead — two more would pass away in the hours following what turned out to be an orchestrated sniper attack.

Within a matter of minutes, Twitter users had identified him in one of the eyewitness videos — clearly not involved in the shooting — even as the police message was being retweeted tens of thousands of times, and TV news channels were still calling him a suspect.

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 French TV station BFMTV reported that Lakdim later shot at a group of police officers in Carcassonne from the car, hitting one in the shoulder before droving off to Trèbes.

The verdict comes about three years after rioting broke out in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson when an unarmed black teenager was shot dead by a white police officer.

A Tunisian man was able to drive a 19 - tonne truck along a packed sea - front promenade, mowing down people in the Bastille Day crowd, before he was shot dead by police.

Police arrested 19 - year - old Nikolas Cruz, a former Marjory Stoneman student, in connection with the shooting on Wednesday.

The 2016 settlement was reached months after police arrested and charged Uber driver Jason Brian Dalton with fatally shooting six people between picking up passengers in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Some ads mentioned Muslim support for Clinton, promoted in - person events and weighed in on the Black Lives Matter protests against police shootings, according to media reports.

On December 28, 25 - year - old Tyler Barriss called police in Wichita, Kansas, falsely claiming he'd shot his father during an argument and was holding two other people hostage in a home there.

The worst injury was suffered by Ryan Berntt, a teenager who was shot in the head with a rubber bullet by police, leaving him in a month - long coma and with permanent brain damage.

When Dao refused, United sent in Chicago Aviation police officers to remove him from the plane and the resulting cellphone video of the struggle shot by another passenger has turned into a PR nightmare for United.

Police say the man suspected in the fatal shooting of a Southwest Airlines employee was found dead inside a vehicle.

This dramatic rendering of a real - life tragedy recounts the final hours of Oscar Grant, who was shot by San Francisco Transit Police on New Year's Day in 2009.

A police officer stands guard outside after a shooting victim was brought to the General Hospital in Cancun, Mexico, on Tuesday, July 11, 2017.

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.

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.

The grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri failed to indict police officer Darren Wilson for the shooting of unarmed teenager Michael Brown.

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey took part in demonstrations in Ferguson, Missouri, live - tweeting updates from the protests of the police shooting of 18 - year - old Michael Brown.

As of now, all versions of Ginga, the official cartoon jaguar of the Rio Olympics, are in good health, but an actual jaguar, named Juma, was shot by a police officer during a segment of the torch relay in Manaus after it somehow escaped and then approached the cop aggressively.

Two Dallas police officers and a civilian were shot on Tuesday at a Home Depot store in the Texas city.»

Jacobs: Former police commissioner Charles Ramsey implemented a lot of reforms towards police - involved shootings in the department after the Department of Justice released that study a few years ago.

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After a shooting that left several people wounded at the southern edge of Tepito — a rough neighborhood known as a bastion of the Sante Muerte faith — 200 police officers were dispatched, shutting down streets and searching alleys and buildings in pursuit of suspects who fled the scene.

Danish police say they have detained two suspects in connection with the shootings in Copenhagen over the weekend.

On July 5, 37 - year - old Alton Sterling was fatally shot by police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Clinton, a former secretary of state and U.S. senator, decried the spate of shootings, including the most recent murders of police in Baton Rouge, and she called for criminal justice reform.

Abdeslam has gone on trial in Belgium over a shoot - out with police in the days before his arrest, but has yet to be tried over the Paris attacks themselves.

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.