Sentences with phrase «use of lethal force by»

In the wake of this tragedy, Chief Bill Blair engaged former Supreme Court Justice, Frank Iacobucci to conduct an independent review of the use of lethal force by the Toronto Police Service.

He has been accused of glorifying and encouraging the use of lethal force by police, and once caused a big stir when saying on video that some police have told him they go home and have great sex after killing someone on the job.

Not exact matches

More precisely: does the Constitution sanction the private use of lethal force, and if so, how can that understanding be squared with the unalienable character of the rights bestowed upon us by the laws of nature and nature's God?

Beijing says 19 people died in the riots, but the Tibetan government in exile says hundreds were killed by Chinese troops use of lethal force.

The use of excessive and lethal police force against people of color is a persistent problem nationwide and we must recommit ourselves to building a more just city and society where all people, regardless of color, are treated equally by law enforcement.

«From SWAT raids to simple calls and even visits to wrong addresses, we are seeing more and more incidents of officers using lethal force against a family pet, despite the fact that no officer has ever been killed in the line of duty by a dog,» said director Michael Ozias.

The exhibition features a new series of Black Lives Matter paintings conceived by the Richmond, Va. - born artist in response to the Michael Brown and Eric Garner killings and the rallying of communities across the United States in protest of police use of lethal force on unarmed black men and youth.

As usual, the «reasonable person» test would be applied by the judicial system, potentially in an adversarial court trial, to determine whether your use of lethal force was justified.

Z v United Kingdom (2002) 34 EHRR 3 put it succinctly: «A requirement of promptness and reasonable expedition is explicit... a prompt response by the authorities in investigating a use of lethal force may generally be regarded as essential in maintaining public confidence in their adherence to the rule of the law.»

In its first publication on the matter, this 6 - pp backgrounder by James Jay Carafano says autonomous technologies «may well be a defining characteristic of future generations of military systems» and endorses current US policy, which it interprets as reserving the use of lethal force for human operators.

Wareham addressed Russia's desire for a working definition and affirmed that «by retaining meaningful human control over the use of lethal force in each individual attack we can in effect prohibit the use of fully autonomous weapons and thus achieve a preemptive ban.»