Sentences with phrase «protests against police brutality»

New mortgages were up 26 % in the resurgent Maryland city located an hour outside the nation's capital, which continues to bounce back from years of high unemployment and last year's much publicized protests against police brutality.

This incident led to numerous protests against police brutality and Grant has since become something of an icon of martyrdom.

Mr. Cuomo, reacting to the mass protests against police brutality that have convulsed the country since grand juries failed to indict police officers in the deaths of black men in Staten Island and Ferguson, Mo., argued that «today, sadly, too many people are questioning if the blindfold is still intact or does the justice system now see black and white or black and blue or rich and poor.»

The deal between the speaker and the police commissioner also comes as protests against police brutality roil around the country.

Police precincts across NYC are reportedly calling off their planned annual festivities because they can't afford to take officers off the street while protests against police brutality continue to crop up almost nightly.

Garner's last words became a rallying cry for protests against police brutality across the country.

More than 100 people were arrested and 21 police officers were injured during protests against police brutality in Minnesota on Saturday night going into Sunday morning.

Papa John's founder John Schnatter, who stepped down as CEO at the end of last year, had blamed falling sales on the NFL's failure to resolve the raging controversy over players taking a knee during the national anthem, in order to protest against police brutality.

Also, it's funny you talk about people seeing «my side» when you and the rest of your ilk can't even answer a simple question of how Colin should've protested against police brutality instead of how he actually went about it.

Quentin Tarantino has recently found himself at the center of controversy — again — after he went to a protest against police brutality and made some comments that angered police officers and has resulted in an ever - spreading boycott by police unions and organizations across the country.

The suit was filed on behalf of an anonymous officer with the Baton Rouge Police Department who was injured in July 2016 during a protest against police brutality.

Not exact matches

Or when Colin Kaepernick and other NFL athletes took a knee during the national anthem in protest of police brutality against people of color.

The most recent Twitter bout started when Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said he would bench any players who chose to «disrespect the flag» — presumably referring to some players» recent protests against racist police brutality, which they've demonstrated by kneeling during the national anthem.

The last 24 hours had seen football players, coaches and even team owners kneeling in solidarity during the national anthem in protest of police brutality against black people.

Now, removed from Kaepernick, who is on the outside looking in, with his stance distorted by arguments cowardly trying to look away from the original issue — claiming he kneeled against things that he didn't — and with the spotlight pointed at Trump rather than police brutality, the NFL has decided to protest without really protesting anything.

With protests breaking out around the country against police brutality, Hakeem Jeffries introduced a bill to ban police chokeholds, the irresponsible practice which led to the death of Eric Garner last year.

Also at 6 p.m., People's Power Assembly and Black Lives Matter activists hold a rally and protest in solidarity with Charlotte, NC, uprising against protest brutality and to «demand an end to police attacks and reprisals against protesters there,» Harlem State Office Bldg, 163 West 125th St., Manhattan.

We've also worked together on front - line campaigns, including living wage campaigns, pipeline protests, and struggles against police brutality, environmental racism, coal trains and fracking towers.

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