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The US Justice Department has cleared a Ferguson, Mo., police officer of civil rights violations in the shooting of Michael Brown, a black teenager whose death set off racially charged and sometimes violent protests last year.
http://www.nystateofpolitics.com/ Not exact matches
Police said that due to fears of violent protest over the deadly Israeli military campaign in the Gaza Strip, they would bar men under the age of 50 from Jerusalem's flashpoint Al - Aqsa mosque for what are usually packed prayers on the last Friday of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan.
In the wake of last week's violent protest by alt - right groups in Charlottesville, more tech companies have disavowed relationships with extremist groups.
However, his opinion is vastly different from the man whose statue was the center of recent violent protests in Charlottesville last year: Robert E. Lee.
Last year during Lent, suicide bombings at two churches in Lahore's Youhanabad neighborhood sparked violent protests from Christians angry at their government's lack of protection.
Protests during the one - year anniversary of the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson turned violent after police say two groups of people exchanged fired late last night.
the last part (violent protest is stupid) can be construed a number of ways and using historical revolutions as examples has its limits.
De Blasio, a Democrat, has faced criticism from the Italian - American group after he named a blue - ribbon panel last month to examine the city's controversial monuments and other «symbols of hate» in the wake of violent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, over a statue honoring a Confederate leader.
The rally tonight, which lasted several hours and never seemed to attract more than 50 people at a time, was relatively subdued, a stark contrast to the violent protests that roiled Ferguson last week after a Missouri grand jury voted not to indict a white police officer for shooting to death the 18 - year - old Brown.
First Second Books» Editorial Director (and web cartoonist with «Sailor Twain») Mark Siegel noted that in the four ongoing web - based comics he's helped to launch, the most exciting element of publishing digitally has been seeing a unique reader community whose feedback affects the comics creation rise around each project including the Iranian comics «Zahra's Paradise» whose serialization was in part inspired by the role Twitter played in shaping news coverage of the violent election protests that rocked the country last year.
The last report to trigger nationwide protests was the violent death of the student Özgecan Aslan in 2015.
It has turned violent, too — I'm thinking of the Charlottesville protests in August last year.