Sentences with phrase «protest police killings»

Demonstrators surrounded a basketball arena in downtown Sacramento to protest the police killing another unarmed black man.

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Some said it seemed opportunistic and inappropriate at a time of national protests over police killings of unarmed black men.

Protests broke out in Charlotte last night after a local man was shot and killed by police under disputed circumstances.

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

The New York Liberty, Phoenix Mercury, Indiana Fever and their players were fined for wearing shirts during warmups in response to the recent deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, and five Dallas police officers killed during a protest rally.

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.

Citizens are routinely arrested by police on allegation of being «MASSOB or IPOB members» and killed secretly and buried in undisclosed shallow graves; likewise those shot and killed by soldiers and police while embarking on peaceful protests.

The balance sheet after three weeks of protests and police violence in Turkey is grim: four people were killed, more than 7,000 wounded, 11 lost their eyesight and several hundred detained.

The bodies of the elephants were found lifeless in the Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe, and police investigations suspect the park rangers carried out the brutal killings in protest for not being paid their wages.

Republican state and city lawmakers on Thursday protested the parole of Herman Bell, who was one of three men convicted of killing two police officers in 1971.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has been forced to withdraw claims it had made suggesting there were no CCTV cameras around the area Ian Tomlinson was killed during the G20 protests.

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.

As the rally wrapped up, Ms. Mallory also plugged Gathering for Justice and a protest scheduled for June 2 to honor Ramarley Graham, an unarmed black youth police killed in his Bronx home in 2012.

Families of those killed in police custody have invited campaigners against detention centres to join them in a protest in Whitehall tomorrow.

Protests and calls to support police departments reached a fever pitch this week following the killing of five Dallas police officers during a demonstration in that city.

His focus on broken windows policing — stopping smaller crimes in an effort to prevent larger ones — earned him the ire of many of those same activists who protested stop - and - frisk alongside the mayor, particularly after Eric Garner was killed when police tried to arrest him for selling untaxed cigarettes.

«I'm tired of police killing our people,» said Edwin Jain, 19, a Tufts University student protesting in New York.

With his fist in the air, Buffalo Common Council Member Ulysees O. Wingo Sr. silently protested the killing of unarmed black people by police in the country during the Pledge of Allegiance prior to yesterday's council meeting.

The protest, which drew nearly 500 people, came on the heels of the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, two black men who were killed in police - related incidents fewer than 24 hours apart earlier this week.

A gunman killed three police officers and wounded three others in Louisiana's capital, Baton Rouge, just days after the police shooting of a black man there sparked nationwide protests, one of which led to the massacre of five Dallas policemen.

Kenneth Thompson, the Brooklyn district attorney, solemnly unveiled a six - count indictment this afternoon against the NYPD officer who shot and killed Akai Gurley, striving to show the public his office was not pressured by the police protests that have roiled the city and nation over the last year.

The P.B.A., frustrated by a lack of progress on labor talks and a perceived lack of support from City Hall when protests broke out following a grand jury's decision not to indict any police officers for the death of Eric Garner, lashed out at the mayor in December after two officers were shot and killed while sitting in their patrol car.

For instance, in the protests of 30 — 31 May 2016, more than 5 personnel of the Nigeria Police were killed, while several soldiers were wounded, Nigeria Police vehicles were burnt down same as several others of the Nigerian Army that were vandalized.

The City Council opened its stated meeting Thursday with parallel protests over recent police killings of African - Americans, protests that sharply illustrated the different styles of a pair of black lawmakers from Brooklyn, both of whom insiders say aspire to lead the body after next year.

Union leaders have accused de Blasio of not being sufficiently supportive of police, and have said the drop - off in enforcement activity was due to low morale, a large number of protests throughout the city, and increased safety precautions following the killing of two officers in Brooklyn on December 20.

In the worst incident, 19 landless people were killed when police dispersed a protest near Marabá in the northern state of Para, a region notorious for its ruthless style of settling disputes.

The previous week, a police officer shot and killed an unarmed mother of two in what he claims was self - defense; in the aftermath, protestors have waged increasingly agitated anti-police protests.

But hey, let's let a group of excited young college students set cars alight after a game, that's A-Okay, but peaceful protesting of unarmed police killings where a COUPLE bad people take the opportunity to loot... well, it's a goddamn riot.

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The American artist Glenn Kaino recently visited Ferguson, Missouri — the town torn by protests after a white police officer killed Mike Brown, an unarmed black teenager, on 9 August — for a work he is due to unveil this weekend at his first solo show at the Kavi Gupta gallery in Chicago.

Capturing the Baltimore protests in response to the 2015 police killing of Freddie Gray, Devin Allen's photographs went viral on social media and gained nationwide attention from mainstream media.

NEWS In the wake of the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, nationwide protests against police killing unarmed Black men and youth reach Miami Dec. 5, shutting down I - 95 and blocking traffic in Midtown and Wynwood during Art Basel Miami Beach.

But on Thursday night, a version of that same flag, created by artist Dread Scott, flew in New York's Union Square as hundreds of people protested recent police killings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile.

This week has seen nationwide protests after two police killings were documented in graphic video: Sterling, who was shot and killed when officers responded to a disturbance call in Baton Rouge, and Castile, who was shot during a traffic stop in Falcon Heights, Minnesota.

First unveiled at Art Basel Miami Beach, this charcoal drawing depicts the Ferguson, Missouri, police force in riot gear during a protest over the killing of the unarmed black teenager Michael Brown.

Two works included in the exhibition attract particular attention — Henry Taylor's painting of Philando Castille, who was killed in his car by police gunfire; and a painting of Emmett Till by Dana Schutz, a white artist, which provoked protests and an international dialogue about who has the right to depict black bodies.

Benno Ohnesorg 2, found near the lower right - hand corner of the grid, depicts the shooting of Benno Ohnesorg, a German student who was killed by police in West Berlin during a protest of the Shah's visit to Germany in 1967.

In the grey drizzle of London, protest flyers were left littered at the feet of onlooking staff and police, leaving the pleas of the activists plastered to the pavement: «CARL ANDRE KILLED ANA MENDIETA — WHERE IS ANA MENDIETA?»

Aitken created the work based on the location where unarmed Michael Brown was shot and killed by police officer Darren Wilson, resulting in protests and riots, making it into a no - go zone for reporters.

The expansive 5000 square foot space exhibited juried work, after an open call for submissions for work that responds to the recent killings of unarmed black men by police officers and the protests that ensued.

The exhibition features a new series of Black Lives Matter paintings conceived by the Richmond, Va. - born artist in response to the Michael Brown and Eric Garner killings and the rallying of communities across the United States in protest of police use of lethal force on unarmed black men and youth.

Amid worsening economic conditions in the 1970s and 1980s, coal miners led some of the most dramatic protests as the state imposed martial law, with seven workers killed by strike - breaking police in a 1981 massacre at a Silesia mine.

A protest against a coal plant project two years ago in Sompeta in the eastern coastal state of Andhra Pradesh turned violent, with two farmers killed by police and several others wounded.

At least 640 land and environmental activists have been killed since the 2009 climate negotiations in Copenhagen - some shot by police during protests, others gunned down by hired assassins.

The unions called for strikes and protests to negotiate better work conditions some resulting in riots, especially the infamous Haymarket Riot of 1886, in which several Chicago police officers and workers were killed.

The International Day was proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in 1966, to coincide with the date in 1960 when police killed 69 people in Sharpeville, South Africa at a peaceful protest against apartheid laws.