Sentences with phrase «protests over police»

Ferguson and Baltimore had gained widespread attention for the large and violent protests over police shootings of black men.

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

Friday: Questions for Delaine Eastin, protests over a police shooting in Sacramento, #DeleteFacebook and the weekend's gun marches.

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

That desire — to create a safe space for civil discussion — is a common concern for educators in a period dominated by social media echo chambers, protests over policing, and growing distrust of government among both young people and adults.

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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.

Police said that due to fears of violent protest over the deadly Israeli military campaign in the Gaza Strip, they would bar men under the age of 50 from Jerusalem's flashpoint Al - Aqsa mosque for what are usually packed prayers on the last Friday of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan.

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.

Whenever McKenna gets arrested following peaceful occupation - style protests on government property, the police are on his side, the magistrates let him go as soon as possible, and now over 200 other church leaders have also risked arrest as his movement has taken off.

It seems to me, nevertheless, that he suffered, at the hands of the BBC This World programme in particular, and the media in general, a profound injustice, and that this injustice was made possible only because it fed into a narrative which Catholics have endured over recent years for the most part without protest, so great has been their numb horror at the seemingly endless procession of abusive clergy who have been dragged from the shadows by police and media.

Things got awry before the meeting ended as some officials of the police and NSCDC were said to have opened fire on some of the workers after an argument over the protests.

Nate Silver had a great piece in the Times over the weekend, looking at how clashes with police seem to have driven mainstream media coverage of the Occupy Wall Street protests (a classic example of the principle of «if it bleeds, it leads»).

Tragedy struck in Lafia, the Nasarawa State capital today (Friday) as some men of the Nigeria Police and the Nigerian Security Civil Defence Corps opened fire on some of the protesting workers of the state who gathered over non-payment of their salaries.

What began as a localised protest over a shopping centre and the demolition of the Gezi Park in Istanbul's central Taksim Square turned into a nationwide conflagration in response to the inciting rhetoric of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the unfettered police brutality unleashed upon peaceful protestors.

The High Court, presided over by Court of Appeal judge, Justice Dominic Dennis Adjei, ruled that it was improper for police officers desiring to stop a street protest, to obtain an injunction from the Circuit Court.

The pro-opposition pressure group had had running battles with the police over its decision to hold street protests in support of calls for the compilation of a new voters» register.

Also published on HuffingtonPost Nate Silver had a great piece in the Times over the weekend, looking at how clashes with police seem to have driven mainstream media coverage of the Occupy Wall Street protests (a classic example of the principle of «if it bleeds, it leads»).

The case, along with a police shooting in Missouri of teenager Michael Brown that led to no charges of a local police officer there, led to a series of protests in cities around the country and a debate over police tactics as well as calls to reform the criminal justice system.

In April 2015, Blake and State Senator Gustavo Rivera, along with liberal activist Groups, blasted the police for shoving and arresting activists in demonstrations seeking to express solidarity with protests in Baltimore, Md. over the mysterious death of black civilian Freddie Gray while in police custody.

The Nigeria Police Force, NPF, on Monday debunked reports that that policemen attached to the Presidential Villa, Abuja protested over unpaid allowance since 2015, stressing that...

Okoroba community in Nembe Local Government Area of Bayelsa State has protested police arrest and continued detention of its six indigenes over alleged case of murder.

He called the shooting death of the cops the «direct spinoff» of anti-police-brutality protests that the sympathetic mayor had allowed to take over city streets, blamed marijuana — which, thanks to the mayor, you can now carry a larger quantity of without getting locked up — for a spike in murders, has proudly declared stop - and - frisk isn't going away, and has repeatedly broken with the mayor on the subject of how many more cops the city needs (the mayor has said none, the police commissioner now says at least 1,000).

The protest ended around midnight without incident, but over the weekend demonstrators clashed with police, with three members of the security forces reported to have been seriously hurt on Friday.

On Oct. 30, 2008, days before the election, Lyman and Mesley organized a protest in front of the Albany County Judicial Center and criticized Soares over a judge's decision to set bail for a man accused of pointing a gun at two Albany police officers.

The incident has been juxtaposed with the attempt by some Togolese to stage an unlawful protest in Accra, but were swiftly clamped down by the police at Nima over the weekend, and they are getting ready to put them before court today [Monday].

Men of the Abuja Command of the police had taken over the premises as early as 7 am Monday ahead of resumptions by workers who had however planned to stage another protest against Yussuf's recall.

Donovan's first visit to the Capitol came shortly after some national Republicans expressed concern over his role in the case of Eric Garner, following a grand jury's decision not to indict a white police officer in Garner's death, a decision that earned national attention and touched off protests across New York City.

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 leaders of the five police unions have been at odds with the mayor and police commissioner over what they see as a lack of support for officers during recent protests following the Eric Garner decision, the death of two detectives in Brooklyn and the wounding of two plainclothes officers in The Bronx.

The three have been at odds over the past few months, as the Council has protested police brutality and pushed ahead with proposed reforms, even after Lynch accused City Hall of having «blood» on its hands, and Bratton suggested members focus on showing «additional support» instead.

Against the backdrop of reported protest by Police officers over non-payment of allowances after the Ondo State governorship election, the Nigerian Police hierarchy disclosed last Night that allowances of Policemen who took part in last Saturday's governorship election, are being paid noting that those yet to get their allowances presented moribund account numbers.

«The report is entirely false and misleading, the members of the public are implored to discountenance and disregard it as no Police man went on rampage or protest on the street in Ondo town over non-payment of the election allowance.

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.

The man provided the girl with narcotics and alcohol, forced her into a bed and forced himself on her over the teen's protests, according to a police report.

The incident, along with others, helped sparked national protests over the way black men are treated by police.

A group of boys wore bras over their t - shirts to protest the incident, which spurred a parent to call the police out of concern that the boys were causing a «disruption» and making «inappropriate gestures.»

Our region, transforming now Middle East Annual Review looking at our achievements over the past year and illustrate some of the Fy17 highlights Read the In December 2010, a man in Tunisia burned himself to death in protest at his treatment by police.

A Sudanese asylum seeker perforated his small intestine after swallowing a ballpoint pen in protest over UK police wanting to deport him.

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.

The hacker cabal, Anonymous, who emerged in the wake of George «Geohot» Hotz» bitter legal feud over hacking the PS3's firmware, have promised their «movement does not end here» after a planned protest of Sony Center stores - which had the Japanese manufacturer hiring police forces for protection - ended up in embarrassment, with a scant few members sheepishly arriving for the proposed sit - in.

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.

Lawyers for the Tate pored over the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act before artist Mark Wallinger recreated a spectacular anti-war protest from Parliament Square, filling the stately Duveen galleries which mostly lie within the exclusion zone banning such demonstrations.

Amid all the blithe shopping and celebrating, you might not even notice that the country is in the midst of a wave of protests nationwide over the failure of a Staten Island grand jury to indict police in the fatal arrest of Eric Garner.

The curious case of a group of masked Chinese artists detained by police for a brief, spontaneous protest over pollution serves as a reminder of just how sensitive the issue remains for the authorities.

Within this body of work, Caycedo conceptually embeds an analogous, contiguous relationship of tactical constraint and crowd control, as exercised by police and military over group protests and public demonstrations.

Police have ended the occupation of Berlin's Volksbühne Theatre, taken over by activists last Friday to protest the gentrification of the city's spaces.

She started writing letters, embarking on a journey that brought her into a series of brutal confrontations with police and assorted thugs and finally to a leading role in the protest movement that erupted in December over election fraud.

Local protesters are refusing authorities» requests to reopen some to help alleviate the situation; they have set fire to four buses and have gotten into a number of scuffles with the police over the past few days.City officials are pinning the blame in part on the Camorra, the local mafia, which they argue benefit from the chaos caused by the protests.

When a Danish TV documentary revealed a recording of a police commander in Copenhagen urging his units over the radio to beat demonstrators, and press, during protests at climate talks one year ago, I was less surprised than I would have liked to be.

In 2007, members and supporters of Port Military Resistance engaged in a protest that included street battles with police over transporting military equipment between the port and Joint Base Lewis McCord.