Sentences with phrase «tension over policing»

The remarks were unmistakably set in the context of recent tension over policing issues in New York City involving the Bill de Blasio administration, the police department, and the communities most affected by controversial policing policies.

But it came at a time of heightened tension over the Police Department's tactic of stopping, questioning and sometimes frisking people in minority neighborhoods of the city.

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Suspected Death Threat Sent to Burgundy Winemaker French police are investigating a possible death threat sent to the home of a Burgundy wine union president, as tension in France grows over the use of pesticides in vineyards...

Racial tensions between the police and people of color have been boiling over in America as of late.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo laid out a series of proposals for reforming the state's criminal justice system, in response to heightened tensions over the death of an unarmed Staten Island resident after an encounter with police, as well as the recent murder of two police officers

Thus, at this moment Catalonia would be part of EU despite the political tension and despite the acts of sovereignty of Catalonia and despite the police and legal repression of the Spanish state over the Catalans.

Over the past few days I have been observing how Arab and Muslim passers - by are approached by border police for identification and questioning — undoubtedly a humiliating experience that increases ethnic tensions and shows that the government is taking action to control this difficult situation.

General News of Sunday, 13 May 2018 Source: Kofi Siaw Reports suggest the clashes due to police intervention, did not get fatal There is growing tension at Nkrukan in the Yilo Krobo Municipality of the Eastern Region over the installation of a parallel Chief.

Tensions have been rising for weeks over plans to devolve control over the police and courts back into local hands.

Mayor Bill de Blasio, center, is seated Police Commissioner William Bratton, left, and the Rev. Al Sharpton, during a round table discussion convened to ease tensions over the July 17, death of Eric Garner.

Garner's death brought into focus a central point of Mr. de Blasio's campaign: the increasing tensions between communities of color and the police over stop - and - frisk and instances of alleged brutality, which he vowed to ease.

The tension over the recall of the sacked Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme, Prof Usman Yussuf, increased this morning as men of the Nigeria Police Force took over the premises of the agency.

It's the first time Lynch has visited City Hall since tensions between the rank - and - file police union and the administration boiled over in the days following the officers» deaths.

Governor Andrew Cuomo had his father on his mind as he delivered a somber inaugural speech, that touched on strife over police tensions, poorly performing public schools and income inequality.

The resulting publicity and furor over what some see as a bad taste move on her part escalate tensions, with the community divided as Mildred continues to harass police chief William Willoughby (Woody Harrelson) and others in his department, including Officer Dixon (Sam Rockwell).

Contained entirely within the back of a police truck over one night in Egypt, shortly after a military coup overthrew the newly elected Muslim government, it brings together protesters on both sides of the conflict who must survive a night filled with tension both inside and outside their claustrophobic quarters.

Reflective of the tensions involved are the practical and constitutional arguments pressed with great vigor on both sides of the public debate over the power of the police to «stop and frisk» — as it is sometimes euphemistically termed — suspicious persons.

Initially people thought that the shooting of police suspect Mark Duggan had sparked community tensions that eventually boiled over.