Sentences with phrase «shootings by police officers»

Think about a VR version of the night that Michael Brown was shot by a police officer in Ferguson, Mo..

As of now, all versions of Ginga, the official cartoon jaguar of the Rio Olympics, are in good health, but an actual jaguar, named Juma, was shot by a police officer during a segment of the torch relay in Manaus after it somehow escaped and then approached the cop aggressively.

Picture Diamond Reynolds calmly recording the aftermath of her boyfriend Philando Castile's shooting by a police officer during a traffic stop — and her daughter alongside her telling her to be strong.

Constance Malcolm is the mother of Ramarley Graham, who was unarmed when he was shot by a police officer who said he who thought Graham was reaching for a gun.

A twitter user Anioke Collins, said Biafrians were been shot by police officers at Igwuocha area of the state.

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.

The city has settled to pay $ 700,000 to a mentally disturbed Soundview man who was shot by police officers during an altercation in 2005.

Now, Academy - Award winning actor Forest Whitaker and Nina Young have decided to produce «Fruitvale,» the story of Oscar Grant, the 22 year old Black man fatally shot by police officers on a subway platform in Oakland, California.

Already in his first feature, Fruitvale Station — a dramatization of the last hours in the life of Oscar Grant III (Michael B. Jordan) before he was fatally shot by a police officer in San Francisco in the early hours of New Year's Day 2009 — Ryan Coogler was displaying a perceptive and compassionate treatment of race in America.

At 2:15 a.m. on January 1, 2009 in Oakland, Calif., an unarmed 22 - year - old black man was handcuffed on the metro platform of Fruitvale BART Station after ringing in the new year and then shot by a police officer.

There are no firm statistics, but consider the estimates: The Department of Justice says about 10,000 dogs are shot by police officers every year.

One early Sunday morning in August 2013, we received a phone call from our local animal shelter about a dog who had been shot by a police officer while he slept.

draws on the video Diamond Reynolds captured moments after her fiancé, Philando Castile, had been fatally shot by a police officer in July 2016 in Falcon Heights, Minnesota — an incident that sparked protests nationwide.

The former's book Monsanto: A Photographic Investigation is a powerful indictment of corporate power and ecological irresponsibility, while Thompson's 35 mm film, called Autoportrait, was made in collaboration with Diamond Reynolds, who broadcast on social media the moments following her partner Philando Castile's fatal shooting by a police officer in Minnesota.

The black - and - white film is a silent portrait of Diamond Reynolds, the Minnesota woman who in July 2016 used Facebook Live to broadcast the moments immediately after Philando Castile, her partner, was shot by police officer Jeronimo Yanez during a traffic stop.

Shot without sound, the film is freighted with political urgency: Its subject is Diamond Reynolds, who broadcast the dying moments of her partner, Philando Castile, on Facebook Live after he was shot by a police officer during a traffic stop.

Here is Henry Taylor's «The Times Thay Ai nt A Changing, Fast Enough», a chilling reminder of Diamond Reynolds» video that captured her fiancée Philando Castile's final moments after being shot by a police officer in July 2016.

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The verdict comes about three years after rioting broke out in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson when an unarmed black teenager was shot dead by a white police officer.

When Finch walked out the door to see why the police had shown up, he was shot and killed by an officer.

When Dao refused, United sent in Chicago Aviation police officers to remove him from the plane and the resulting cellphone video of the struggle shot by another passenger has turned into a PR nightmare for United.

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.

Alton Sterling, the Baton Rouge man who was shot by police on July 5, had peddled CDs for years and law enforcement officers would have known he was not a threat if they were more familiar with the area, local residents said.

Authorities in Baton Rouge last week thwarted a planned attack on police officers days after the shooting of Alton Sterling, a 37 - year - old black man who was killed by police in an encounter that was largely captured on video and raised widespread concerns about the officers» actions.

A man suspected of fatally shooting an off - duty police officer in a small Kentucky city was killed by law enforcement officials in Tennessee, authorities said Friday.

-- «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 plaintiffs detailed a series of «militaristic displays of force and weaponry,» including being shot with rubber bullets, tear gassed, beaten and arrested during demonstrations following the shooting of the black teen by a white police officer.

When Michael Brown was shot by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson on August 9, it looked like Ferguson, Missouri, was going to serve as just one more stop on the national tour of this classic drama.

On July 6, 2016, Americans were shocked by a live viral Facebook video of a woman begging the same police officer who shot her boyfriend to help him as he bled out in the front seat next to her.

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

The video comes after several other shootings of unarmed black men by white police officers, and has drawn outrage online for how police treated Harris, who died shortly after at the hospital.

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.»

They were shot and killed by police but not before seven people, including an officer, were hurt.

Three weeks after an unarmed Bell was shot 50 times by police officers in the early morning hours of his wedding day, African - American New Yorkers flooded 5th Avenue shutting down traffic in the middle of the Christmas shopping season.

New footage from the scene where unarmed 12 - year - old Tamir Rice was shot and killed by police shows Rice's 14 - year - old sister running up minutes after he was shot, only to be knocked to the ground by police officers.

Shaou was detained by ICE last September immediately upon finishing a three - decade sentence for shooting and wounding a police officer.

A Palestinian police officer shot the civilians «after identifying suspicious movements,» the spokesman said, citing information about the incident provided by Palestinian officials.

As The Post noted in a new analysis published last week, that means black Americans are 2.5 times as likely as white Americans to be shot and killed by police officers.

The same year the Nevada Wolfpack went 13 - 1 behind Kaepernick, a 7 - year - old girl named Aiyana Jones was shot to death by a police officer during a no - knock police raid on a house in Detroit, Michigan.

The team also wore t - shirts with «Change Starts With Us: Justice & Accountability» written on the front and the names of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile as well as the Dallas Police Department emblem on the back to honor and mourn the losses of two black men shot and killed by police and five officers killed on duty lastPolice Department emblem on the back to honor and mourn the losses of two black men shot and killed by police and five officers killed on duty lastpolice and five officers killed on duty last week.

In West Rogers Park, a man, believed to be in his 20s, was shot just after 5:30 p.m. in the 2300 block of West Pratt Avenue in what may have been a drive - by attack, said Chicago Police News Affairs Officer John Mirabelli.

Attorneys in a federal lawsuit filed by the widow of a Watervliet man who was fatally shot by a Troy police sergeant are seeking to unseal the minutes of a Rensselaer County grand jury that cleared the officer of wrongdoing.

A lawsuit filed by a labor union for the NYPD that seeks to block the release of footage from officers» body - worn cameras without a court order may have far - reaching implications for public access to videos of police incidents, including fatal shootings.

The review was prompted by the incident that took place in London in 1984 of the shooting of a British police officer by someone from within the Libyan Embassy in London.

Information reaching us indicates a police patrol team at Kintampo has allegedly shot and killed a fellow police officer by mistake, in a shootout with arm robbers.

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.

Newtown's police commissioners want Connecticut law changed so officers and others who responded to last month's deadly school shooting are covered by workers» compensation.

Brian Skinner, a Shenendehowa elementary school teacher, was shot and killed by police Friday night during an encounter that left a young officer, Stephen Janik, hospitalized with a gunshot wound to his abdomen.

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.

An Onondaga County grand jury has determined that the fatal shooting of a man by a police officer in Syracuse on Father's Day was justified.