Sentences with phrase «protest police action»

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When you see a black friend being pulled over by the police for no apparent reason, you serve as a real witness to this event, and you protest the action you see as unjust.

Actions against protesters included «unlawful killings and beatings by police during protests and house - to - house operations», HRW said, adding there were at least three cases where women alleged police had raped them.

«Their mindless actions not only caused criminal damage and undermined our protest, but caused injury to police officers, local government workers and fellow protestors - and, having subsequently seen some of the footage, the injuries could have been far worse.

Former Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke Jr. will keynote the New York State Association of Chiefs of Police's event at the Capital Center, 55 Eagle St., Albany and will be protested by Citizen Action members and their allies from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The means of protest seem to me less justified on this occasion, yet at the same time I would agree that the police action would also seem inappropriately disproportionate.

Protestors were out in force in Niagara Square Saturday afternoon, protesting actions of police officers around the country and locally.

Police are in advanced stages of preparation for what is expected to be a large London protest tomorrow against Israeli military action in Gaza.

Though it does not excuse or make sense of the police actions, one guess / hypothesis might be that they decided to act at that point to contain / besiege the various different protests taking place, without discriminating between them in any way.

Bratton also commended the New York Police Department for its «remarkable restraint» in the past several weeks of protests over police acPolice Department for its «remarkable restraint» in the past several weeks of protests over police acpolice actions.

Today's action marks the first police protest for five years, when 5,000 officers called for more flexible conditions and better pay.

Yesterday, we had a civil disobedience action, which ended in police brutality against all the teachers that were protesting and been pepper sprayed.

Your students are participating in a public protest; police actions, even at non-violent and permitted actions, your students can be at risk;

Thus, here the police action appears to strike the correct, fair and reasonable balance between the rights of the individual to protest peacefully and the wider interests of safeguarding order and protecting others.