Sentences with phrase «police use deadly»

The limitation in the executive order has raised questions among some district attorneys and others about whether the governor's order should have been written to give Schneiderman broader authority to intervene in any case where police use deadly force, whether or not someone dies.

This was exceedingly rare: While Charlotte police used deadly force in at least a dozen instances in the past five years alone, this was the first time in more than 30 years that an officer was charged for killing someone in the line of duty.

Not exact matches

Police officers should not be allowed to create dangerous situations that leave them with no choice but to use deadly force.

A police officer is only supposed to use deadly force...

While many district attorneys opposed the law, Schneiderman's office said local prosecutors have been «cordial» and not attempted, before Abelove's «end - run» last week, to impede the attorney general's review of deadly incidents involving police use of force.

In this 2015 file photo, state Rep. Charlie Stallworth of Bridgeport listens to testimony at a law enforcement forum at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford on the deadly use of force by police officers.

The report concluded that police had legal justification to use deadly force as Hernandez - Rossy fled police because they believed — mistakenly — that he had a gun and had shot one of the officers in the ear.

In 2006, Paterson sponsored a controversial bill to limit the use of deadly force by the police, but later changed that position.

The failure to recognize that black and brown lives matter is evident throughout all five boroughs, as New York's communities of color suffer the brutality of hyper - aggressive policing and are too often denied meaningful accountability of officers who to choose to use excessive and deadly force.

It was proved that the officer had the right to use deadly force when Brown was charging at him, yet people still use it as an example of unjustified police violence; for example in this article (but there are others as well).

A police officer is only supposed to use deadly force when the life of the officer or of a civilian is in danger.

Proponents of this say that this could reduce the number of deadly use of firearms by giving police officers an alternative way to incapacitate a dangerous attacker.

However, even in such a situation, the police will still try to resolve the problem without having to use deadly violence.

Suffolk Police Commissioner nominee Geraldine Hart said she wants to work closely with authorities in El Salvador to help fight the deadly MS - 13 gang's activities in the county and plans to use her knowledge of federal programs to push for more grant money.

«Our position is that the only office that really can be counted on at this point to do a thorough and fair investigation of what we believe to have been a completely unjustified use of deadly force by a police officer would be the New York Attorney General's office,» said Mishler at the time.

CITY HALL — Queens Councilman Rory Lancman said he introduced a bill that would make it a misdemeanor for NYPD officers to use chokeholds after seeing a video of the deadly struggle between Staten Island man Eric Garner and police.

After a rookie Cleveland patrolman fatally shot a 12 - year - old boy who was holding a pellet gun in November, Ohio Gov. John Kasich created a panel to develop the state's first - ever standards for police use of deadly force.

The failure to recognize that black and brown lives matter is evident throughout all five boroughs, as New York's communities of color suffer the brutality of hyperaggressive policing and are too often denied meaningful accountability of officers who to choose to use excessive and deadly force,» they continued.

Wednesday's national walkout — which lasted 17 minutes — was organized in the days after the deadly rampage carried out by former Stoneman Douglas student Nikolas Cruz, 19, who police said used a semiautomatic AR - 15 rifle.

(Some have suggested that DAs are too close with local police departments to impartially review improper use of deadly force by police; at the time Schneiderman requested that Cuomo grant him the additional power in such cases, Daniel Pantaleo, the police officer whose chokehold killed Eric Garner, had recently escaped an indictment.)

I want to emphatically reject the idea that because of Eric Garner's prior arrests, that it somehow allows the use of excessive force — of deadly physical force by the police against any unarmed person.»

The deadly mob violence that wracked England this past week has abated, as police came out in force and used surveillance images to track down and arrest some 1,900 alleged rioters.

Told in riveting detail by the women who were able to escape Sowell's deadly clutches, «Unseen» draws viewers into a world where marginalized women, plagued by drug use, shunned by society and dismissed by the police, became easy prey for a predatory monster.

When the news is told to us, all we hear about is the perpetrator's name, where the event took place, what the police claim is the reason they had to use deadly force, and perhaps some details of the so - called criminal's rap sheet.

The public should be in solidarity with police officers, not calling out bad cops or demanding reforms of laws governing use - of - deadly - force rules that allow rogue officers to get away with murder.

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Kindaka Sanders, A Reason to Resist: The Use of Deadly Force in Aiding Victims of Unlawful Police Aggression, 52 San Diego L. Rev. 695, 732 - 35 (2015)(footnotes omitted).

While the law concerning the use of deadly force against police officials in self - defense is relatively developed, the law regarding the third party use of force against police officials is slim...

It is less clear under the law of these states the circumstances under which an intervener can use deadly force against a police official to aid a third party...

Person A reasonably believed that the use of deadly force against B by a person C (who could be a police officer) was not justified, and

Section 35 -41-3-2 provides, in essence, that an intervener may come to the aid of the perceived victim of unlawful police aggression and may, under certain circumstances, use deadly force to protect a third party, even a stranger, from excessive police force...

Following a New Mexico police misconduct Judge Theresa Baca awarded $ 4.25 million to the family of a man fatally wounded by an Albuquerque Police Department officer in 2009 and criticized the department's training methods as «designed to result in unreasonable use of deadly force.&police misconduct Judge Theresa Baca awarded $ 4.25 million to the family of a man fatally wounded by an Albuquerque Police Department officer in 2009 and criticized the department's training methods as «designed to result in unreasonable use of deadly force.&Police Department officer in 2009 and criticized the department's training methods as «designed to result in unreasonable use of deadly force.»

A police officer can use deadly force to effectuate an arrest based on a reasonable belief that a suspect has committed a felony involving the risk of physical harm or death to others (murder, manslaughter, kidnapping, rape or burglary) or if there is substantial risk that the suspect was dangerous to the point that he may cause serious physical harm or death to someone if the arrest were delayed.

In Illinois, the Illinois Wrongful Death Act allows victims to sue for a number of different actions that include police misconduct or use of deadly force.

Also this week: A judge says voters will decide the future of Washington's law on prosecuting police who use deadly force, Governor Inslee proclaims on HBO that Washington state has «the best weed in the United States,» and Alaska Airlines says no more goats or frogs — but maybe pigs — allowed on its flights.