Sentences with phrase «recent deaths of police officers»

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The deaths of Brown and Garner made national headlines, but according to a recent report by the FBI, there was an average of 96 cases per year, from 2006 to 2012, of a white police officer killing a black person.

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.

The New York City PBA has been at odds with Mayor Bill de Blasio in recent months over police tactics and criminal justice reform measures sought after the death of Eric Garner, an unarmed black man who died after a choke hold administered by a police officer.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo laid out a series of proposals for reforming the state's criminal justice system, in response to heightened tensions over the death of an unarmed Staten Island resident after an encounter with police, as well as the recent murder of two police officers

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday mourned the recent shooting deaths of police officers in New York, praising law enforcement for putting themselves in harm's way.

The heightened spotlight on the issue of police brutality comes on the heels of the recent deaths of African - American men at the hands of the police and the fatal shootings of police officers in Louisiana, Minnesota and Texas.

Her supporters say that's not credible.There has been an outcry in the US over this suspicious death in custody - just one of the many recent deaths of African Americans in custody or on the streets at the hands of trigger - happy local police officers.

Senate Republicans starting this month will hold a series of hearings on the issue, with Majority Leader Dean Skelos pledging to review whether elected officials helped create a negative atmosphere that ultimately played a role in the recent shooting deaths of two New York City police officers.

Cuomo himself in recent days has called for a series of criminal justice reforms as well as new police training following a Staten Island grand jury not issuing an indictment against Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the chokehold death of Eric Garner.

The woman's mother alerted police in Maryland to postings she believed Brinsley was making on an Instagram account, which included anti-police writings — several news outlets have tied Brinsley to posts saying he wanted to kill police officers in revenge for recent police - related deaths of unarmed black men Eric Garner in Staten Island and Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo..

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.

In recent weeks, Donovan has drawn the ire of some who are unhappy with a grand jury's decision not to indict a police officer in connection with the death of Eric Garner.

Daniela Porat walks Jay Moran of WBFO through her reporting on her recent story about the drowning death of Officer Craig Lehner while on a training dive with the Buffalo Police Department's Underwater Recovery Team.

The recent non-indictments of the officers who killed Eric Garner and Michael Brown, considered among the deaths of countless other black and brown men and women at the hands of police and extrajudicial incidents, calls for urgent and purposeful action to demand that such transgressions do not remain a permanent fixture within our nation.

By way of example, in the last year, he has been instructed in approximately 15 inquests including acting for the family in a recent inquest into the death of Mr Andrew Pimlott, who died in circumstances where a police officer fired a taser at him whilst he was covered in petrol.