Sentences with phrase «unarmed civilians at»

Headlines about the shooting deaths of unarmed civilians at the hands of police are seemingly never - ending, and Jay Coles is engaging with this subject matter in his powerful, necessary and hype - worthy YA debut, Tyler Johnson Was Here.

The proposal falls short of calls by Attorney General Eric Schneiderman that he be given power to investigate the deaths of unarmed civilians at the hands of police.

MANHATTAN — Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is asking Gov. Andrew Cuomo for the power to investigate the death of unarmed civilians at the hands of police in order to address a «deep crisis of confidence in some of the fundamental elements of our criminal justice system.»

NEW YORK — Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman released the following statement June 23, on Governor Cuomo's announcement that he would appoint the Attorney General's office to investigate deaths of unarmed civilians at the hands of the police:

Because Thevenin was not carrying a weapon, the case could have fallen under a relatively new governor's order, empowering the attorney general to review any death of an unarmed civilian at the hands of police.

Not exact matches

According to The Wall Street Journal, body cameras have become a $ 1 billion industry since the deaths of Brown, Eric Garner, and other unarmed black civilians at the hands of police officers.

At least 20 unarmed men were executed by Syrian troops in Damascus, according to opposition activists, as the government said Monday that the country's chemical weapons were secure and would never be used against civilians.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued an executive order last year that authorized Schneiderman to investigate cases where police killed unarmed civilians and cases where «there is a significant question as to whether the civilian was armed and dangerous at the time of his or her death.»

The latter plaque recognized the governor for signing an executive order last June that made state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman the special prosecutor for all cases where a police officer kills a possibly unarmed civilian, which Mr. Sharpton called «the only national model» for handling deaths at the hands of local law enforcement.

I also asked Heastie if he's concerned about the governor's increased reliance of late on his executive powers to circumvent the Legislature on key policy issues like a minimum wage increase for the state's fast food workers and creation of a special prosecutor to handle cases in which unarmed civilians die at the hands of law enforcement officers.

Assemblyman Tom Abinanti is taking state AG Eric Schneiderman's call for temporary power to investigate unarmed civilian deaths at the hands of police officers one step further.

Schneiderman's directive instructs the district attorneys to investigate when an unarmed civilian dies at the hands of law enforcement or when there's a «significant question raised» as to whether that was the case, as each D.A. determines is «appropriate under the circumstances until such time as you are directed otherwise in writing by the Special Prosecutor.»

The Green Party has called for a negotiated, peaceful resolution to the conflict that establishes full rights and security for all Israelis and Palestinians, with an immediate end to all violence directed at unarmed civilians.

The Democratic attorney general spent last week going back and forth with the state's district attorneys over an executive order that Schneiderman investigate instances in which an unarmed civilian dies at the hands of police, essentially supplanting the local prosecutor.

As Democrats focus on deaths of unarmed black civilians in police incidents, the death of a Mount Vernon woman was referenced at the convention.

Cuomo's order, issued in the wake of the national uproar over last summer's deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., and Eric Garner in Staten Island, hands the responsibility for the investigation of unarmed deaths of civilians at the hands of police to the attorney general's office, which would also handle any resulting prosecutions that emerge.

The rights body accused military operatives of gunning down unarmed civilians before a march to mark the anniversary of the 1967 Biafran declaration of independence, stressing that based on visits to hospitals and mortuaries, at least 17 were killed and nearly 50 injured in Onitsha alone.