Sentences with phrase «turn against the police»

And showing that the hunters have become the hunted as the Ibori case has turned against the Police, the BBC report added: «Last year, after repeatedly telling judges there was no evidence of police corruption, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) admitted they had found substantial material that supported the allegations.

Not exact matches

Within two months, in February 2015, Russian police turned up at the bank's Moscow office to investigate a fraud case against Lotus Capital, the broker with the accounts at Promsberbank.

The police generally turn a blind eye (Copts are systematically discriminated against in Egypt).

Unfortunately, we know that police are tempted, in turn, to employ their power in violent ways, chiefly against those guilty of crimes, but sometimes against the innocent.

A police constable - turned Anglican priest facing gross misconduct charges over the death of a musician has won a High Court ruling against a refusal to let him resign.

Although the judge's decision did not deal with whether or not the sexual abuse actually happened, this latest turn of events is something of a victory for SGM, whose legal strategy has been to first argue that the First Amendment gives pastors the right to discourage victims of abuse from reporting the crimes against them to police and second to argue that the case should be thrown out on technicalities, such as the statute of limitations.

A stream of penalties against the home side then helped to turn the tide and from a position of being 16 points behind, tries from Great Manchester Police's Chris and Police Service of Scotland's Russell McKeown, both converted by West Midlands Police's Chris Scott, made it a two point game at half - time.

The disorder began on Saturday when a protest against the shooting of 29 - year old Mark Duggan turned violent and two police cars were set alight.

Fears that Britain could turn into a «safe haven» for foreign criminals have intensified after peers spoke out against the government's plans to opt out of EU police and criminal justice measures.

Among other senior police officers, Brian Paddick, Andy Hayman and Tarique Ghaffur, former allies who turned against Blair when the internal politics of the Met became nasty, are excoriated at slightly excessive length.

Paradoxically, their dependence on their wider community for general security means they can not turn to the South African police when members of their own community commit acts of SGBV against them.

This evening those same Ministers did a series of hand - break turns and voted against each of the polices they had previously presented to the House.

A rally against gun violence today abruptly turned its fire on Police Commissioner Bill Bratton, as one advocate led several top - caliber elected officials in a salvo of attacks on the top cop's recent comments about hip - hop.

Those who shoot are told at every turn by the police to take every precaution against strangers discovering where firearms may be stored.

«You make Al Shaprton a close adviser, you are going to turn the police in America against you.»

The presence of the civil rights leader who has led national marches against police brutality for decades and is seen by critics as reflexively anti-police rekindled a debate about his track record on public safety at a time when his ally, Mayor Bill de Blasio, is seeking to burnish his bonds with police officers, large numbers of whom turned their backs on him at two police funerals last December.

Criminal charges against a sitting district attorney are rare, but Spota and his office have been under scrutiny for years, and the indictment was the latest turn in a federal investigation that has transfixed Long Island and led to the downfall of the county police chief, James Burke.

De Blasio credited Dinkins with turning the tide against high crime by negotiating a deal with Albany to allow the city to vastly increase its police force.

The first is there is no question that Three Billboards, even though told through the eyes of someone who isn't American, sizzles with what we're going through in terms of our anger at Trump, anger at how America has turned out, anger at inaction against police brutality, anger at the status quo.

But it turns out that I am woefully out of date: according to The Language Police, the sensitivity guidelines for one major publisher warn against paying too much attention to figures like Harriet Tubman (along with Martin Luther King, Jackie Robinson, and George Washington Carver), because they are «acceptable to the European - American establishment.»

«With recurring events such as police brutality against people of color, the mistreatment of Native Americans, and of course, the election my art has taken a political turn,» she wrote.

The Alabama police had used German shepherd dogs against African - American protestors (images of which were used by Andy Warhol and, more recently, Kelley Walker) but they also turned fire hoses against crowds of peaceful black school children with spray powerful enough to strip paint from a wall.

In December, 2010, accusations against falsified presidential elections brought rise to a wave of peaceful protests throughout the country, which were, in turn unmercifully retaliated against by police and government forces.

A protest against a coal plant project two years ago in Sompeta in the eastern coastal state of Andhra Pradesh turned violent, with two farmers killed by police and several others wounded.

It isn't as funny as Jaymi's post Cyclist Argues Against Bike - Lane Police Fine In Hilarous Video; it just shows lots of people following most of the rules, being polite, yielding to cars turning right, and not even swearing at the truck blocking the bike lane, just riding around it.

Justice Moldaver then turns to what is described as practical considerations for law enforcement and the administration of justice, at paras. 183 - 6, suggesting that (a) the disclosure of text messages received by a complainant could be challenged by a sender who is alleged to have abused the complainant and thus exposes vulnerable complainants such as children, people with mental disabilities and the elderly (b) the increased need for warrants could strain police and judicial resources in an overburdened criminal justice system and (c) at the trial stage, these repercussions could complicate and prolong proceedings where defendants have standing to challenge searches conducted against collateral targets in large prosecutions.

If the communications had been elicited by the police investigation, Ghomeshi's counsel Marie Henein would have had considerably less leverage for undermining the State's case against her client, which turned entirely on the credibility and reliability of the two complainants.

In more serious cases, if enough evidence is found through the investigation, the information discovered may be turned over to police for formal criminal charges to be laid against the accused.

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According to police, Stephen Paddock, 64, fitted 12 of his weapons with bum stocks, turning semi-auto rifles to automatic fire guns, which in themselves are against the law in the US.