Sentences with phrase «shooting deaths of police officers»

Based on the largely forgotten 2007 film starring Mark Wahlberg and the novel «Point of Impact» by Stephen Hunter, the series (executive produced by Wahlberg) was originally scheduled to debut in July but was postponed following the massacre at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, then again after the shooting deaths of police officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge.

At 3:30 p.m., Sharpton joins the family of Eric Garner to lay a wreath site of the shooting deaths of Police Officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos; Myrtle and Thompkins avenues, Brooklyn.

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 actual one millionth tree was planted in October, but the event around it was cancelled after the shooting death of Police Officer Randolph Holder.

Police officers confer while searching for three suspects in Tuesday's shooting death of a police officer near Fox Lake, Ill., about 50 miles north of Chicago.

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The powerful video portrayed, with frank brutality, the October 2014 death of 17 - year - old Laquan McDonald at the hands of a police officer who shot the teenager 16 times.

The shooting death of an 18 - year - old black man named Michael Brown by a 28 - year - old white police officer, and the weeks of protest that followed.

The shooting death of a 12 - year - old black boy named Tamir Rice by two white Cleveland Police Department officers.

Coral Gables police officers won't face charges for death of Aviel Gutierrez, who died in December 2016 after he was shot with a Taser stun gun during a bizarre confrontation.

Protests occurred again in September after a white former St. Louis police officer was acquitted in the shooting death of another black man in 2011.

-- «State senators condemn fatal police shooting of Stephon Clark,» by LATimes» Patrick McGreevy: «Lawmakers» tempers flared Monday as the California Senate adjourned in memory of Stephon Clark, an unarmed African American man who was shot to death by Sacramento police officers on March 18.

The man then got out of his «large vehicle,» stabbed a police officer to death and was then shot by police.

Police Officer Darren Wilson — who was recently cleared by a grand jury in the shooting death of unarmed teen Michael Brown — recently sat down with ABC News, telling George Stephanopoulos, «The reason I have a clean conscience is that I know I did my job right.»

A day after Davis was executed in Georgia for the 1989 shooting death of Mark MacPhail, an off - duty police officer, one contributor to The Daily Beast asked this question:

A Glen Ellyn police officer involved in the controversial shooting death of an unarmed man in April helped rescue an Addison man from a burning vehicle Tuesday in Lombard.

The comments come as lawmakers will be mulling potential changes to the state's criminal justice system in the wake of the Eric Garner decision as well as the shooting deaths of two New York City police officers.

The family of an off - duty parole officer who was shot and killed by a Canandaigua police officer says it plans to file a wrongful death lawsuit.

The family of Akai Gurley, the unarmed man shot and killed in a Brooklyn housing - project stairwell by a police officer last year, has filed a wrongful - death lawsuit against New York City.

A jury earlier this year convicted New York City Police Officer Peter Liang in the shooting death of Akai Gurley, a conviction that was condemned by some members of the city's Asian community.

Abelove's charges, unsealed in an indictment on Friday, stem from Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office accusing him of failing to notify state officials after the death of Edson Thevenin, who was shot by a Troy police officer in 2016.

The US Justice Department has cleared a Ferguson, Mo., police officer of civil rights violations in the shooting of Michael Brown, a black teenager whose death set off racially charged and sometimes violent protests last year.

The Metropolitan Police today admitted making a «mess» of the aftermath of Mark Duggan's death and promised to be much quicker in talking to relatives of people shot by officers in future.

Mr. Thompson is now in the spotlight after grand juries failed to indict police in the cases of Garner and Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. because he empaneled a grand jury to decide whether a unarmed Brooklyn man shot to death by a police officer last month should be indicted.

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.

The extraordinary seizure was part of an ongoing probe by the attorney general into Abelove's controversial handling of a case in which a Troy police officer was cleared in the April 2016 shooting death of a DWI suspect.

The two officers were shot --» assassinated,» as the mayor and police commissioner put it — through the window of their patrol car by 28 - year - old Ismaaiyl Brinsley, who posted on social media that he was out for revenge for the police - related deaths of unarmed black men, Eric Garner and Michael Brown.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office was granted the authority on Monday to investigate the shooting death of Delrawn Small, who was shot to death on July 4 by an off - duty New York City police officer in Brooklyn.

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.

A Cleveland grand jury declined to bring charges in the death of Tamir Rice, a black youth with a toy gun who was shot by a white police officer 13 months ago.

The shooting death of a 66 - year - old mentally ill Bronx woman by an NYPD sergeant was condemned in swift and striking terms by both NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio and Police Commissioner James P. O'Neill, who said the officer had failed to follow the department's protocol for dealing with an emotionally disturbed person.

Democratic 2016 frontrunner Hillary Clinton supports a federal review of the Chicago Police Department following the shooting death of a black teenager by a white police ofPolice Department following the shooting death of a black teenager by a white police ofpolice officer.

The shooting death of a New York City police officer is fueling concerns of increased violence at an East Harlem housing project.

Investigators believe a struggle for a New York Police Department officer's gun led to the Tuesday shooting death of a man involved in a car chase from the Bronx into Westchester County, a law - enforcement official said.

The group linked those practices, which they say unfairly and unconstitutionally target communities of color, with Davis» death, as well as that of Jose Hernandez - Rossy, who was fatally shot by a police officer in Black Rock in May.

Cuomo also interjected himself into the rift between de Blasio and the city's police unions following the shooting deaths of two police officers against the mayor's wishes.

, concluded that the Troy Police Department's investigation into the death of Edson Thevenin — who, after fleeing a DWI stop, was shot seven times by an officer — was «deficient and incomplete.»

In mid-January, state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office, after extensive review, concluded that the Troy Police Department's investigation into the death of Edson Thevenin — who, after fleeing a DWI stop, was shot seven times by an officer — was «deficient and incomplete.»

Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton has called for a Justice Department inquiry into the death of Philando Castile, 32, who was shot and killed by a police officer during a traffic stop in Falcon Heights, Minnesota just two days after Sterling's death.

But many commentators have been dismayed with the reaction to the death of the 37 - year - old, who shot three people: his ex-girlfriend Samantha Stobbart, her new partner Chris Brown, and a police officer, David Rathband.

De Blasio offered another defense of the NYPD while also taking a shot at the «rhetoric of union leaders» — one of whom suggested the possibility of a work slowdown by officers after fallout over the death of Eric Garner last month in police custody.

The ten are standing trial for breaking jail on Sunday, January 21 in a move that led to the shooting to death of Kwabenya police officer Emmanuel Ashilevi, who is expected to be buried on Saturday, March 3.

The report covered 10 cases between 2009 and 2014 where the Civilian Complaint Review Board determined officers used chokeholds, but the office delayed the release of their 34 - page report by three weeks after the shootings deaths of the two police officers in Brooklyn last month.

Earlier this week Mr. Barron warned that violence could erupt in response to Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson's decision not to seek prison time for Peter Liang, the former police officer who was convicted of manslaughter in the shooting death of Akai Gurley.

In August of last year, shortly after NYPD officers shot to death an emotionally disturbed man in his apartment, City Council Member Jumaane Williams led an effort calling on Mayor Bill de Blasio to set up a task force to conduct a wholesale review of the police department's protocols in dealing with «emotionally disturbed persons,» or EDPs.

Two Buffalo police officers have been cleared of wrongdoing in the shooting death of an unarmed man who was trying to flee the scene following a traffic stop in May of 2017.

The P.B.A., frustrated by a lack of progress on labor talks and a perceived lack of support from City Hall when protests broke out following a grand jury's decision not to indict any police officers for the death of Eric Garner, lashed out at the mayor in December after two officers were shot and killed while sitting in their patrol car.

Two days after a Staten Island grand jury voted not to indict a white police officer in the death of Eric Garner, a spokesman for the family of Akai Gurley, a Brooklyn man shot and killed by a cop last month, called for the Brooklyn district attorney to charge the police officer with homicide.

The timing of Gurley's death comes at a particularly sensitive time for the department, which is bracing for possible demonstrations and protests in response to a decision from a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri, about whether to proceed with a criminal case against a white police officer who fatally shot an unarmed teenager.

After praising the NYPD for maintaining order during New York City - based protests following the news that a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri, did not indict a white police officer in the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager, de Blasio said there is «a great sensitivity» to ensuring emergency vehicles are not blocked during marches.

Following the shooting death of two police officers while sitting in their patrol cars in December, the number of arrests and summonses decreased dramatically.