Sentences with phrase «unarmed black man»

In one of her first major speeches as a presidential candidate, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today called for sweeping criminal justice reforms in the wake of the deaths of unarmed black men in police custody — most recently in Baltimore, plunging the city into days of unrest.
Race does connect them, in a way, but in one, we are trying to escape today's racial reality of driving while black and cops killing unarmed black men with no punishment, While in the other, we immerse ourselves in that reality.
Conversely, after the subsequent death of several unarmed black men in the following years, I was attending my church in LA, and each time, no mention or acknowledgment was made.
The Wednesday night vigil for Small came amid heightened tension across the country about police shooting unarmed black men.
The move comes in the wake of a spate of killings of unarmed black men by police officers around the country.
The dramatic encounter was captured on video and Garner's final words became the rallying cry for a national movement questioning the deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of police around the country.
Monday, the Los Angeles Police Department released their autopsy on the death of Ezell Ford, a 25 - year - old unarmed black man with a history of mental illness who was shot and...
Though the three - week trial was entangled in the furor over the death of Eric Garner on Staten Island, it never neatly fit the narrative of other police killings of unarmed black men around the country.
Brinsley posted on social media he was seeking revenge for the deaths of unarmed black men Eric Garner and Michael Brown.
MAGAZINE In the May issue of Modern Painters, artist Kambui Olujimi begins a series of dialogues with fellow artists about race, police brutality, and their experiences with law enforcement in the wake of the steady stream of national news stories about unarmed black men and youth being killed by police.
Looking ahead: Protests will continue in Sacramento after another young unarmed black man was gunned down by police.
Let's ignore that he was scared because unarmed black men keep getting gunned down by police so he freaked out.
Cuomo noted the local protesters who have taken strong exception to police conduct and the recent killings of unarmed black men nationwide.
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN, NY — Peter Liang, the rookie NYPD officer found guilty of manslaughter last month for fatally shooting young, unarmed black man Akai Gurley in a dark East New York stairwell in 2014, may never see the inside of a jail cell.
MAGAZINE Issue 117 of Transition: The Magazine of Africa and the Diaspora is covered by a compelling photograph titled «Umfundi» from the Afronaut series by Cristina de Middel, and features an interview with architect David Adjaye about his design for the new Cooper Gallery of African and African American Art at Harvard University, and selections from the journal's online forum discussing police killings of unarmed black men across the nation.
In Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric, published to justified acclaim last year, there's a short, stark stanza written in memory of the many unarmed black men such as Eric Garner and Michael Brown who have been killed by US police officers in recent years:
With the facts of Martin's death — and the numerous deaths of other unarmed black men by police — so well - known, it's sometimes hard to visualize the sheer enormity of their impact.
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.
The April death of 39 - year - old Donald «Dontay» Ivy, whom police chased and fatally Tasered, and the grand jury's decision Wednesday come after a string of high - profile deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of law enforcement.
NYPD Officer Richard Haste tomorrow will face a disciplinary trial at Police Department headquarters in Lower Manhattan for the February 2012 shooting death of Ramarley Graham, an 18 - year - old unarmed black man.
Clinton cited recent incidents of unarmed black men around the country being killed by police such as Freddie Gray in Baltimore, Tamir Rice in Cleveland and Garner, who she said was «choked to death after being stopped for selling cigarettes on the streets of our city,» in Staten Island.
The woman's mother alerted police in Maryland to postings she believed Brinsley was making on an Instagram account, which included anti-police writings — several news outlets have tied Brinsley to posts saying he wanted to kill police officers in revenge for recent police - related deaths of unarmed black men Eric Garner in Staten Island and Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo..
OVER THE PAST YEAR, visual artists have responded to the steady clip of national news stories about unarmed black men and youth being killed by police.
LIKE SO MANY OTHER AMERICANS, artist Titus Kaphar has been struggling with how to respond to the shooting of Mike Brown in Ferguson, Mo., the choking death of Eric Garner in New York, and the countless other incidents involving police officers killing unarmed Black men and youth across the country.
«I think of them almost as audiences to the bizarre political theater we've been witnessing,» he says, suggesting not only the Presidential race but also the many horrifying deaths that ripped through the news last summer, including the Orlando and Nice massacres, and a string of unarmed black men shot by police.
Some said it seemed opportunistic and inappropriate at a time of national protests over police killings of unarmed black men.
The Tulsa, Oklahoma police department has released disturbing new video of officers shooting and killing an unarmed black man.
The shooting of Michael Brown follows a long and unfortunate list of recent killings of young and unarmed black men... Oscar Grant, Trayvon Martin, Jonathan Ferrell, Jordan Davis just to name a few.
Demonstrators surrounded a basketball arena in downtown Sacramento to protest the police killing another unarmed black man.
Slager is the white officer who shot an unarmed black man, Walter Scott, last year, which...
Do u mean, like when an unarmed Black man who had not committed any crime is murdered by a White or Near White Person in American.
Slager is the white officer who shot an unarmed black man, Walter Scott, last year, which further exacerbated tensions between law enforcement and many within the black community — basically a theme of 2015.
On Wednesday, a Staten Island grand jury announced its decision not to indict police officer Daniel Pantaleo, who put an unarmed black man in a chokehold that resulting in the man's death.
His death, and the subsequent killings of unarmed black men and women at the hands of the police, have lifted the conversation on race out of black households and onto the national stage.
Now consider the five unarmed black men killed by police in the last month: Michael Brown, and Ezell Ford, and Eric Garner, and John Crawford III, and Dante Parker.
The Sacramento Kings and the Boston Celtics took the court on Sunday wearing black T - shirts supporting Stephon Clark, an unarmed black man who was shot and killed in his own Sacramento backyard last week.
But to many, the circumstances of Ferrell's death followed a distressingly familiar pattern, touching the rawest of nerves: another young, unarmed black man killed, his life seemingly deemed disposable.
It helped that Ferguson was a hot news story, and people felt a sense of impotent rage over the shooting of yet another unarmed black man.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is undertaking one of the biggest challenges of his year - old mayoralty after a Staten Island grand jury declined to indict a white police officer in the death of an unarmed black man, Eric Garner.
The New York City PBA has been at odds with Mayor Bill de Blasio in recent months over police tactics and criminal justice reform measures sought after the death of Eric Garner, an unarmed black man who died after a choke hold administered by a police officer.
Asked about the complication for Donovan's candidacy of the Garner case, in which the grand jury's decision not to bring charges against a white police officer for the chokehold - related death of an unarmed black man sparked protests and significant unrest in NYC, Walden said:
Former NYPD Officer Peter Liang apologized today to the domestic partner of Akai Gurley, the unarmed black man whom he was convicted this year of fatally shooting.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said that he is «disappointed» by a Brooklyn jury's decision to acquit an off - duty cop who fatally shot an unarmed black man in a Brooklyn road rage shooting last year.
An NYPD officer was reportedly indicted on multiple charges, including manslaughter, in the November shooting death of an unarmed black man in the darkened stairwell of a housing project.
Federal prosecutors began presenting evidence to a grand jury in Brooklyn in the death of Garner, an unarmed black man who died after being placed in a chokehold by a white police officer in Staten Island in July 2014, according to a person briefed on the matter.
More broadly, the push for grand jury reform began last year, after a Staten Island grand jury declined to indict a New York City police officer in the choke hold death of an unarmed black man, Eric Garner.
As District Attorney, Thompson was involved in the prosecution of former NYPD officer Peter Liang, who fatally shot Akai Gurley, an unarmed black man, in a housing project stairwell in 2014.
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.
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