Sentences with phrase «protesting police violence»

This is a tall order, especially in the time of Trump, who insists that blacks live in hell and wishes that (black) sons of bitches would get fired for protesting police violence.

He urged those protesting police violence and law enforcement officers and their supporters to come together and resolve their differences, seeing one another as human.

NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick made a lot of news last season when he protested police violence and racial injustice by sitting during the National Anthem before games.

On a day of protest throughout the NFL, both WNBA teams protested police violence and racism during the national anthem and commissioner Lisa Borders spoke about the importance of athletes sharing their opinions.

As we saw dozens of NFL players protest police violence and racism during the national anthem on Sunday, we are reminded that the NBA has a rule against that.

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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.

Paris witnessed burning cars, smashed shops and banks, and police attacked by masked and hooded left - extremist activists Monday as the May Day protests descended into bitter violence.

Believing he has been blackballed for his controversial on - the - field protests against police violence and systemic racism, Kaepernick's legal team has filed a grievance against the NFL, accusing league owners of colluding to prevent him from working in football anymore.

The only violence at that protest was perpetrated by the police against the protestors.

You can be a black player and protest police on black violence w / out belonging to BLM.

But most of the violence is that of the police who carry out orders to make the protesters, however nonviolent, pay a high price for their protests.

Subsequent protests in Washington, Quebec, Prague, and Geneva have been met by increasing police violence.

Before the game, it coalesced to schedule two days of conversations and protests during Super Bowl weekend — a conference Saturday, then a rally Sunday — centered on race, police violence, and the right to protest.

The generally peaceful international workers» day protest on May 1 has been marred in recent years by sporadic acts of violence and vandalism and police are working flat out to foil a repetition.

Several protests, led by the Let My Vote Count Alliance (LMVCA) which advocates for fair elections and a new voters registry, ended in violence when police shot rubber bullets and tear gas canisters into the crowd, beat protesters with horsewhips and batons, and arrested those who did not disperse.

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.

Protests in Ukraine began late last year with hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians taking to the streets to rally against corruption and police violence in the country.

Black and Rokita have tapped into an emotional and polarizing national argument that began when Kaepernick and other NFL players knelt during the national anthem to protest racial inequality and police violence.

Watch the new footage of police violence to emerge from the G20 protests, which has prompted a review of policing methods at demonstrations.

The first amendment claim is that local police were infringing on the speaker's first amendment rights by choosing not to control the violence of the protests.

In the opinion of CADA, election threats come in different forms and may include intimidation, registering minors and foreigners, multiple registration, etc. during voter registration exercise or targeting of election officials, intimidation or harassment of journalists, incitement to violence in the media or public, protecting, expanding, or delineating turf or «no - go areas», attacks on election rallies or candidates, intimidation of voters to compel them to vote or stay away, physical attacks on election materials such as snatching and destruction of ballot boxes, armed clashes among political parties, violent clashes among groups of rival supporters, vandalism and physical attacks on property of opponents, targeted attacks against specific candidates or political parties, attacks on rivals who have either won in elections or were defeated, violent street protests and efforts by armed police to maintain or restore order, tear gas, firing on protestors, attacks by protestors on property or the police, escalation and perpetuation of ethnic or sectarian violence.

Meinhof attends a protest against the state visit of the Shah of Iran, a protest that descends into violence and anarchy thanks to the heavy - handed tactics of the German police.

The day after huge student protests ended in widespread violence including an attack on a car containing Prince Charles, the assessment of the police response begins.

How can the police claim they have an order from above to come and disperse a peaceful protest, especially when there was no evidence of violence.

Police showed up to the protests in Guangzhou, but there was no violence, and the affair ended peacefully.

We see his influence in every protest against police violence, every picket that demands funds for public schools over cop academies, every lawsuit opposing Chicago's racist gang database.

Peaceful grassroots protests for racial equality were met with police violence, as when, in April, high pressure hoses and dogs were turned on students in Birmingham, Alabama.

Charged with the emotion, the powerful images in Time of Change: Civil Rights Photographs, 1961 - 1965 depict the struggle for justice and equality during a time of Freedom Rides, protests, marches, and police violence.

Artworks by 19 participating artists are at times playful and poignant, including: Jim Hodges's eerily captivating pink crystal skull, divided in two, forming a (broken) heart; Felix Gonzalez - Torres's poetic light strands and touching brass rings; Louise Bourgeois's hand - sewn couple merged at the belly; Ron Mueck's miniature yet monumental spooning couple; Juan Muñoz's wall - mounted men sharing a hearty laugh at each other's expense; Katharina Fritsch's fantastical octopus embodying fear, control, and helplessness; Yinka Shonibare MBE's headless ballerinas concealing revolvers behind their colorful skirts; and Maurizio Cattelan's slyly humorous pair of inverted police officers, which take on a new resonance in the wake of recent violence and protest.

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She merged 19th century landscapes with photographs of 2016 protests in the wake of police violence in Baltimore and Ferguson, Mo..

During a protest in April 2012, as she began assembling factory workers and residents, police arrested Omido and charged her with holding an illegal gathering and inciting violence.

Last football season, the NFL's San Francisco 49ers quarterback, Colin Kaepernick, famously took a knee during the national anthem as a silent protest against police violence against African - Americans.

And I really don't care if you agree with the guy's protest or agree with his point of view on police violence or not, it's about the most American thing you can do is exercise that right to protest.

Police say no one sustained serious injuries in the incident a day before a national walkout by students to protest gun violence in schools.