Sentences with phrase «unarmed man»

Mr. Sharpton's comments, coming on the heels of multiple instances of police killings of unarmed men of color around the country, were met with applause from the crowd — and from the dais, which was packed with elected officials including Mayor Bill de Blasio, Congressman Charles Rangel, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, city Comptroller Scott Stringer and state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli

First let's take a look at the definition of the word Realpolitik: Politics based on practical and material factors rather than on theoretical or ethical objectives Under that definition there are two possible reasons: Avoiding a situation where European soldiers / border guards shoot unarmed men, women and children Helping prevent further destabilization...

Cuomo said the order was necessary because there is a «crisis of confidence in the criminal justice system» following several high profile cases in New York City and across the country where police have killed unarmed men.

Or what if the «apparently unarmed man» was about to trigger a remote bomb detonator?

Immediately, I discovered that two more young unarmed men had been killed by police.

Add these locations and names to the long list of young black unarmed men (and women) who are racially profiled and injured or killed at the hands of Police Departments around the country.

The meeting comes in the wake of a grand jury decision in Ferguson, Mo., not to indict police officer Darren Wilson in the killing of unarmed man Michael Brown.

A day after a Brooklyn jury convicted NYPD Officer Peter Liang of manslaughter in the killing of public housing resident Akai Gurley, Mayor Bill de Blasio defended the kind of routine stairwell search that precipitated the 28 - year - old unarmed man's death in 2014.

And admittedly, the opening is gripping, as KPA soldiers round up crying women, beat unarmed men and gun down parents in front of their children.

Police Officers Shouldn't Shoot Unarmed Men A Hispanic man in the Los Feliz district is in critical condition after being shot by Los Angeles Police department officers.

«swatting» prank led to fatal shooting of unarmed man: wichita police.

Am I legally able to use my own firearm to use lethal force against the officer to protect the apparently unarmed man?

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.

Scenario 2 — You use your gun to «protect» your wallet A) You just killed an unarmed man.

A Glen Ellyn police officer involved in the controversial shooting death of an unarmed man in April helped rescue an Addison man from a burning vehicle Tuesday in Lombard.

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.

Chinese - American activists, angered by last week's conviction of former NYPD Officer Peter Liang for the fatal shooting of an unarmed man, are seeking a candidate to run against Brooklyn District...

The former rookie cop convicted in the 2014 shooting death of an unarmed man in a housing - project stairwell dodged prison Tuesday — as his victim's angry kin warned that «justice...

Former NYPD Officer Peter Liang, who dodged prison time for fatally shooting an unarmed man, must now determine how to spend his 800 hours of community service as lawyers on...

A former NYPD officer facing up to 15 years in prison for the accidental shooting death of an unarmed man should get home confinement and probation instead of jail time,...

An NYPD Police Academy instructor has been stripped of her badge and gun over allegations that she failed to properly teach lifesaving techniques — resulting in two cops standing by and doing nothing after one shot dead an unarmed man, sources said Tuesday.

The aunt of the unarmed man slain by former cop Peter Liang slammed Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson for his recommendation of no jail time during a protest Thursday, saying,...

RED HOOK — A group of Red Hook residents is rallying to support the family of an unarmed man who was shot and killed by a police officer last week.

The court has ruled on the public advocate's powers in four other cases since then, and it affirmed Green's right to sue in another public - records case, after then - mayor Rudy Giuliani released the juvenile criminal records of an unarmed man who was shot by police.

Richard Haste, a New York police officer facing dismissal for his actions in the fatal shooting of an unarmed man in the Bronx, expressed remorse at his disciplinary trial on Friday, but said his actions were justified.

A uniformed New York City police officer shot and killed an unarmed man after a car chase that began in the Bronx ended with a foot pursuit and a confrontation in a wooded area of Yonkers just off the Saw Mill River Parkway, the authorities said.

Brooklyn DA Ken Thompson has recommended no prison time for Peter Liang, the former NYPD officer who shot and killed an unarmed man in Brooklyn in November 2014.

Chinese - American activists, angered by last week's conviction of former NYPD Officer Peter Liang for the fatal shooting of an unarmed man, are seeking a candidate to run against Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson next year.

An unarmed man died yesterday after being struck twice by officers» Tasers in the city of Oneida, Oneida City Police Chief Paul Thompson said.

The ex-partner of former NYPD Officer Peter Liang, who was convicted of manslaughter in the shooting death of an unarmed man, was fired Friday, police said.

Reacting to the police shooting death of an unarmed man in a Brooklyn housing project on Thursday night, City Councilman Jumaane Williams said a new strategy announced by NYPD commissioner Bill Bratton that would remove rookie cops from crime - ridden patrols has not been implemented.

BROOKLYN — Family and friends of Akai Gurley, the unarmed man fatally shot by a rookie NYPD officer last November, are marking the one - year anniversary of the Brooklyn father's death with a march and rally Friday evening.

Cuomo authorized the AG's Office to investigate all unarmed citizen deaths involving police in 2015 following a public outcry after a grand jury in Staten Island declined to indict the police officer involved in the death of Eric Garner, an unarmed man whose arrest was captured on cellphone video.

BROOKLYN — The rookie NYPD officer who fatally shot an unarmed man inside a Pink Houses stairwell in November has been indicted by a Brooklyn grand jury.

Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson on Wednesday recommended that former NYPD Officer Peter Liang not be sentenced to prison for the fatal shooting of an unarmed man 16 months ago.

Over the summer, Police Officer Daniel Pantaleo, 29, killed Eric Garner, 43, an unarmed man selling loose cigarettes, outside a Staten Island bodega.

Last week, NYPD Officer Peter Liang, 27, shot Akai Gurley, 28, an unarmed man in the stairwell of the Pink Houses in East New York.

An unarmed man was trying to escape a pistol whipping when he was fatally shot in the back by Buffalo police last May after being dragged from his car, according to a new lawsuit filed by his mother seeking unspecified damages.

The ex-partner of former New York Police Department Officer Peter Liang, who was convicted of manslaughter in the shooting death of an unarmed man, was fired Friday, police said.

The rookie cop who gunned down an unarmed man in a pitch - black stairwell made a deadly mistake — and then never got help for his victim, Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson claimed on Wednesday.

Laverne Dobbison, whose son Tamon Robinson, was struck and killed by undercover cops that had pursued the unarmed man suspected of stealing paving stones while he was on foot from their police car, said she was there to help.

He also said that there should have been a moment of silence for Garner and Mike Brown, who was killed by police in Ferguson, Mo., as well as Akai Gurley, an unarmed man who was accidentally killed by a rookie police officer in Brooklyn.

EAST NEW YORK — A rookie police officer fatally shot an unarmed man late Thursday in a «pitch black» Pink Houses stairwell as his girlfriend, whom he had been visiting, watched in horror, officials and a witness said.

Mayor Bill de Blasio addressed the overnight shooting of an unarmed man in Brooklyn's Pink Houses, a New York City Housing Authority complex.

As many are focused on the grand jury's decision in the police shooting of an unarmed man in Missouri, New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton tonight shot down «inflammatory rhetoric» in the wake of a police shooting in Brooklyn.

Two Buffalo police officers have been cleared of wrongdoing in the shooting death of an unarmed man who was trying to flee the scene following a traffic stop in May of 2017.

Former NYPD Officer Peter Liang, who dodged prison time for fatally shooting an unarmed man, must now determine how to spend his 800 hours of community service as lawyers on both sides of the case begin their appeals.