Sentences with phrase «selling illegal cigarettes»

Criminal justice reform advocates say the strategy leads to the types of confrontations that Garner, who was being questioned for selling illegal cigarettes, faced.

Evoking memories of a more troubling era, the NYPD finds itself under mounting criticism over the death of a Staten Island man whom police were arresting for selling illegal cigarettes...

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 incident was caught on a controversial video in which Garner is seen being wrestled to the ground by officers for selling illegal cigarettes — before being heard saying «I can't breathe» nearly a dozen times.

Andrew Cuomo begins his second term in office amid strife over the police killing of Eric Garner, an unarmed citizen in Staten Island who was selling illegal cigarettes, and the murder of two 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 on the sidewalk.

Andrew Cuomo begins his second term in office amid strife over the police killing of Eric Garner, an unarmed citizen in State Island who was selling illegal cigarettes, and the murder of two police officers.

Not exact matches

«15 percent of cigarettes sold in NYC have illegal tax stamps, study finds.»

«Consumers may be unaware they are purchasing illegal cigarettes, since, at least in our study, clerks sold our investigators these cigarettes at full price,» noted Silver.

July 17, 2014, Eric Garner couldn't breathe when a police officer put him in an illegal choke hold after approaching him for illegally selling cigarettes.

Again, pro-pot proponents like to compare pot to alcohol or tobbacco, fair enough, but under the Excise Act, 2001 anyone who makes illegal sales of tobacco and alcohol is subject to possible imprisonment, and you'd better believe that if people were openly selling cigarettes and booze without a license, you can be sure they would be charged and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law (indeed provincial authorities are quite aggressive in prosecuting such persons).

But it's not illegal in any way, unlike a lot of the things that North Korea is doing today to generate funds: counterfeiting US dollars and cigarettes or selling wildlife and illegal drugs.