Sentences with phrase «says police used»

THE BRONX — A New York State assemblyman from The Bronx says police used excessive force against him as he tried to soothe a tense situation between officers and community members in Morrisania and then lied about it to the press.

Judge Ratushny said the police used «the spectre» of criminal charges to try to uncover her confidential sources and cast a chill over the entire media.

Not exact matches

Police used pepper spray to subdue some protesters and a section of a state highway was shut down because of the demonstration, but had since reopened, Keller said.

There's no good that could come out of police using force against indigenous peoples and others who are protesting,» said DeCarlo, who is also a former police chief.

«We can use whatever force necessary to maintain peace,» said Jason Ziegler, police chief in Mandan, North Dakota, near Cannon Ball, in a statement Monday.

The officer also said that the metric itself was not a useful tool — if police had been using Facebook's geolocation tool to track down protesters, it's unlikely that protesters would voluntarily check in at Standing Rock.

Illinois State Police are among those approved for use of drones, or unmanned aircraft, as the state police prefer tPolice are among those approved for use of drones, or unmanned aircraft, as the state police prefer tpolice prefer to say.

High - grade military explosives used to build the bomb were sent by air cargo from Turkey as part of a plot inspired and directed by the militant Islamic State group, police Deputy Commissioner National Security Michael Phelan said in August.

Police said «minimal but necessary force» was used to remove a United customer from a plane in what has become a public relations disaster for the company.

Those using Telegram for illicit purposes say they view Telegram as a platform that offers increased anonymity compared to other alternatives, and one that isn't as heavily policed when it comes to removing groups and channels focused on sharing pirated or illegal material.

Police took a person into custody and later said the package had been «rendered safe using a robot» before the building across the street from Parliament Hill was reopened.

Concepts like this can become sensational and immediately everyone is against police using drones, but we need to have this conversation,» says Smith.

While not all drone use cases by police are bad, Stanley says the potential for civil rights infringement or injury does exist.

Smith says his customers have been asking about how drones can be used in police work, but Taser does not have a drone product in the pipeline.

Though Shyy declined to explain in detail the particular methods San Francisco police use for fear of compromising the department's investigations, he did say that the prevalence of smartphones today has made forensics increasingly critical.

The police made the discovery after a 17 - year - old girl escaped the house in Perris, about 70 miles east of Los Angeles, and used a cellular phone she had found in the house to call them, the Riverside County Sheriff's Office said in a statement released online.

The Metropolitan Police said in a statement that it relies on the Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE), a 1984 piece of legislation, to back up its use of such devices.

«If someone says: «hey, I have a picture of someone assaulting another person, and committing a hate crime,» that's great,» said Sgt. Sean Whitcomb, the spokesman for the Seattle Police Department, which used social media to help identify the pilot of a drone that crashed into a 2015 Pride Parade.

During a time when the American public is debating whether police departments are becoming too militarized, using advanced weapons training inside prisons may not provide the best optics for the public, and can antagonize inmates as well, Minor said.

Police and medical officials, though, said that exhaustion from overwork was probably to blame, while a United Nations labor agency pointed to the possibility that chemicals used to treat fabrics could be responsible.

«The legislation that failed to pass — it got support from 55 senators — would have provided a mental health initiative with more resources, greater ability for the Santa Barbara police to intervene — to use the sheriff's word — to have professionals trained in diagnosing and detecting this kind of derangement,» Blumenthal said.

Police raided the Hong Kong offices of taxi - hailing service Uber on Tuesday and arrested five drivers for the «illegal use of vehicles for hire», policePolice raided the Hong Kong offices of taxi - hailing service Uber on Tuesday and arrested five drivers for the «illegal use of vehicles for hire», policepolice said.

«As a city, we should say in that letter that we are not going to allow our city to continue to utilize either the listservs or the Nextdoor if they continue to engage in this,» she said, explaining that city departments such as Oakland police, which posts on the site, would need to stop using it to make a statement.

A Hong Kong police senior inspector, Bruce Hung, said undercover police officers had used a mobile phone app to hail five cars and arrested the drivers after being driven to their destinations.

«Using the geolocation feature of the Pokemon Go app, the robbers were able to anticipate the location and level of seclusion of unwitting victims,» O'Fallon police Sgt. Bill Stringer said in a release.

Highlighting a dark side to its popularity, the game was used by four teens in Missouri to lure nearly a dozen victims into armed robberies, police and media reports said.

Besides hunting down would - be terrorists, the new laws could be used to stifle dissent, remove due process and lead to the creation of a secret police force, critics say.

Tempe police Sgt. Ronald Elcock said local authorities haven't drawn any conclusions about who is at fault but urged people to use crosswalks.

Police say 19 - year - old Nikolas Cruz used an AR -15-style rifle to gun down 17 people at the high school.

Some 600 computers used to «mine» bitcoin and other virtual currencies have been stolen from data centers in Iceland in what police say is the biggest series of thefts ever in the North Atlantic island nation.

Police said they tried to use negotiations tactics and chemical weapons to get the suspect to leave the building.

Police say Nikolas Cruz, a former student at the school who was charged with 17 counts of murder and 17 counts of attempted murder Wednesday, used an AR - 15 semi-automatic rifle in the shooting.

But the suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, told investigators that he and his brother, Tamerlan, 26, who was killed in a shootout with the police, ultimately decided to use pressure - cooker bombs and other homemade explosive devices, the officials said.

The two were caught buying cellphones using a fake ID and sending them to homes in Suffolk, police say.

There's been a «trend» of short - term rentals being used by sex workers unbeknownst to owners, police said, especially in downtown Vancouver.

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.

Police say gunmen attacked a Catholic Mass on the campus, using small explosives to draw worshippers out before shooting those who fled.

The Association of Chief Police Officers says they're only used in a small percentage of cases and with the full consent of the victim.

From the pulpit, Hall delivered the liturgy with a strong message to his faithful to call for action by their legislators to institute stricter laws banning access to semi-automatic rifles, such as the one police said the gunman used in Friday's massacre.

«About 4 million people above the age of 12 in the United States used an illegal drug in 1970, before we started the war,» says Jack Cole, a retired police officer and founder of the group Law Enforcement Against Prohibition.

Police said Brown had struggled with an officer, while eyewitnesses told CNN he had his hands up and did not to provoke the use of force.

I always ask a pacifist if he or she would be willing to live without a police department or whether if their own loved ones were threatened by say a man with a knife at their loved ones throat and they had a gun would they use it?

As The Washington Post notes, The lawsuit says, «Inexplicably, the Officers failed to contact any properly trained mental health counselors or make any attempt to use less than lethal force and ignored the established police protocols to make attempts to de-escalate the situation.»

Banks used three additional online identities - «Rylan,» «Rylan Butterwood» and «Rylan Harbough» - and police said they are concerned «there may have been more cases with other women.»

He said he'd trust police to use their discretion when arresting people for tight - fitting clothing, however...

Fishburn said that the task force had tried to use «expressive» language in dealing with sexuality — not sex, as it was invariably termed by the media — but that this language was converted by the secular media into a dualistic, simplistic and moralistic language that treated sexual relationships as if they were being entered on a police docket.

Police said they believed the Taiba mosque was again being used as a meeting point for extremists.

If you were to ask a group of Quakers or Mennonites whether it's OK for police or soldiers to use rubber bullets against rock - throwing children, you wouldn't be surprised if they said, «Absolutely not!»

«To continue to resist the making real of such an internationally credible police force, as many on the right in America have done, is more and more obviously a way of saying that now that we're in power we will use that power utterly for our own advantage.»

People used to use full - fat cream in their tea and / or coffee until the fats - police said it wasn't healthy for us.