Sentences with phrase «recent police killings»

Responding to the recent police killings of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling, this updated flag was a last minute addition to For Freedoms at Jack Shainman Gallery in New York (July 2016).

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.

These works about recent police killings will pair pictures of young black men in hooded sweatshirts with text that recalls police reports, questioning whether the text constructs our perception of its paired image or the other way around.

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.

«This perception is creating much of the current acrimony over the recent police killings of New York citizens,» Richard Condon, then the state's executive director of Criminal Justice Services, wrote.

Not exact matches

While crashing a vehicle into civilians recalls recent terrorist attacks, including one on a Christmas market in Berlin in 2016 that killed 12 people, German police and federal officials warned against jumping to conclusions about the incident on Saturday.

In the deadliest recent incident, a firefight erupted late Friday in the resort city of Mazatlan after a caller phoned police to report that an armed group had killed two men.

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.

We were cruelly reminded of that with the recent deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, two more black man killed in police incidents, this time in Louisiana and Minnesota.

The use of high - powered semiautomatic rifles in recent mass shootings, including by Cruz, police say, and in last year's killing of 58 concertgoers in Las Vegas, has sparked calls to reinstate the 10 - year ban on assault weapons that expired in 2004.

There are plenty to note in recent decades: Poland's Jerzy Popiełusko, beaten and drowned by thugs in his country's police force; his compatriot St John Paul, surviving an assassin's bullet in St Peter's Square and an attempted stabbing by a schismatic priest; Archbishop Oscar Romero, slaughtered while celebrating Mass, Pakistan's Shabaz Bhatti, Minister for Minorities in his country's government, killed by a gunman in Islamabad in 2011.

Not all evangelicals believed that Darren Wilson, a Ferguson, Missouri, police officer who killed unarmed teenager Michael Brown in August, should have been indicted in a recent grand jury hearing.

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.

It came as no surprise, that in the wake of the recent killing of Inspector Emmanuel Ashlevi while on duty by armed robbers who invaded the police station at Dome, a suburb in the Greater Accra Region, to free their colleagues who were held by the station awaiting trial, the religious unit of the Ghana Police Service has taken to the organization of prayer sessions for divine intervepolice station at Dome, a suburb in the Greater Accra Region, to free their colleagues who were held by the station awaiting trial, the religious unit of the Ghana Police Service has taken to the organization of prayer sessions for divine intervePolice Service has taken to the organization of prayer sessions for divine intervention.

He said the absence of techniques in crowd management by the Police Service is responsible for the recent mob killings in the country.

Clinton cited recent incidents of unarmed black men around the country being killed by police such as Freddie Gray in Baltimore, Tamir Rice in Cleveland and Garner, who she said was «choked to death after being stopped for selling cigarettes on the streets of our city,» in Staten Island.

The police on Monday said 46 people were killed during recent clash in some parts of Ile - Ife, Osun State.

Following the recent invasion and incessant killings in Lagos and Ogun communities by unknown gunmen, the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, CP, Fatai Owoseni says residents have lost trust in the country's police formPolice, CP, Fatai Owoseni says residents have lost trust in the country's police formpolice formation.

Uganda police say they have arrested a number of suspects over a recent spate of killings of women near the capital, Kampala.

«The Nigeria Police Force hereby implores members of the general public to disregard and discountenance the claim of plot by the IGP against the Senate President as a ruse, unfortunate and an attempt to divert Police investigation into the killings of more than Eleven (11) innocent people from kwara State and other States of the Federation in the recent past by the killer squad who operate under the guise of a cult group.

His comment was in response to the recent attack at the Kwabenya District Police Headquarters which led to the killing of a police offiPolice Headquarters which led to the killing of a police offipolice officer...

«The recent claim by the Senate that the reason for inviting the I - G is to brief them on the recent killings in some part of the Country is an afterthought which can be seen from the headings of their invitation letters», ACP Jimoh Moshood, police spokesman said in Abuja on Saturday,

The appointment of a special prosecutor was prompted by a number of recent incidents where civilians were killed by police, including Eric Garner, a Staten Island man who police put in a choke hold after Garner was accused of selling illegal cigarettes on the sidewalk.

Cuomo noted the local protesters who have taken strong exception to police conduct and the recent killings of unarmed black men nationwide.

Omar Mateen killed 49 people and wounded 53 more in the deadliest mass shooting in recent US history, before being shot dead by police.

The recent killing of two police officers has only inflamed the rift that has grown exponentially worse since Garner, a 43 - year - old black father of six from Stapleton, was killed by a white police officer in Tompkinsville.

The call follows recent cases of crime recorded in the country with the latest being the killing of a Police Officer on duty last Sunday dawn...

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..

District attorneys around New York are still trying to clarify a recent executive order from Cuomo that appoints the state attorney general as a special prosecutor in cases where unarmed suspects are killed by police, or when there is a question about whether a suspect was armed or not.

Organizers pointed to recent instances in which individuals of color were killed by police officers.

The appointment of a special prosecutor was prompted by a number of recent incidents where civilians were killed by police, including Eric Garner, a Staten Island man who police put in a choke hold after Garner was accused of selling illegal cigarettes.

«The IGP has ordered deployment of three additional Police Mobile Force units to Taraba State to beef up security, prevent further attacks, arrest perpetrators and carry out a discreet investigation into the recent killings in Donga and Bali LGAs of Taraba state,» he said.

The Inspector General of Police, Mr Ibrahim Idris, has ordered the deployment of mobile police personnel to Kwara and Taraba States following the recent killings in the sPolice, Mr Ibrahim Idris, has ordered the deployment of mobile police personnel to Kwara and Taraba States following the recent killings in the spolice personnel to Kwara and Taraba States following the recent killings in the states.

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The Inspector General of Police, IGP Ibrahim K. Idris, on the 2nd of May, 2018 paid an operational visit to Birnin Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna State to assess the security situation as a result of recent killings of innocent people in the area.

The revelation came as a response to the question of what the military would do in view of the recent directive by President Muhammadu Buhari to the military and the police to stop the recurrent killing of innocent villagers by armed Fulani militia.

23 January 2018: Inspector General of Police (IGP), David Asante - Apeatu, summoned to Parliament over the recent killings of police offPolice (IGP), David Asante - Apeatu, summoned to Parliament over the recent killings of police offpolice officers.

Recent events have brought this bias to the fore, where Black Americans are more than twice as likely as White Americans to be killed during encounters with the police.

Because there had only been two mass killings in recent local history, Reinhard and others guessed the victims were either Germans executed by the Gestapo in April or May of 1945, or Soviet soldiers killed by the Soviet secret police during an uprising in the former East Germany in late June 1953.

For those without a photographic recall of recent news events, Grant was the unarmed, 22 - year - old Oakland man who, on the morning of January 1, 2009, was shot and killed by a police officer of the Bay Area Rapid Transit system.

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.

Fryer said that after the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., and other recent cases in which police killed unarmed black civilians, Fryer felt he had to know more.

Recent weeks have seen a Bugatti Veyron end up in a US salt lake and the Italian Police kill their Lamborghini Gallardo patrol car.

The sponsorship is in honor of Diesel, the police dog killed in service during the recent terrorist attacks in France.

In Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric, published to justified acclaim last year, there's a short, stark stanza written in memory of the many unarmed black men such as Eric Garner and Michael Brown who have been killed by US police officers in recent years:

On the occasion of Ugo Rondinone: I ♡ John Giorno, Luke Willis Thompson will discuss his recent work and screen his film Cemetery of Uniforms and Liveries, which uses the apparatus of Andy Warhol's Screen Tests to picture two young Londoners each with a maternal relative who was killed by the Metropolitan police.

Christopher Y Lew, one of the curators of the exhibition at the Whitney notes that Shultz made the work in response to the number of African Americans killed in by US police in recent years.

In the series of works on paper Tell Me Your Thoughts on Police Brutality Miss «Spank Me Harder», 2015, Kara Walker conflates different eras, idioms and attitudes to explore racism, its symbols and legacy from the American Civil War to very recent killings and assaults that have fuelled the Black Lives Matter campaign.

Dread Scott's banner, outside the Jack Shainman Gallery in Manhattan, is a reference to recent killings of black men by the police and was inspired by a flag that the N.A.A.C.P. flew on Fifth Avenue in 1936 in response to a lynching.

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