Sentences with phrase «when gang violence»

He and his five siblings were raised in South Central Los Angeles at a time when gang violence and hip - hop music were becoming touchstones of black culture.

The task force brought down several gang members at a time when gang violence was prevalent in certain city neighborhoods.

Not exact matches

A catechist and mother of three small children described her prayer for peace when the terrible violence had only recently broken out: «I prayed to God for peace; in my fear for my children, I asked him that all the evil men in the different gangs would kill one another off.»

The fans that don't like him now are the ones that complain about the violence of football, or are invested in Dupree and / or Tomlin, or percieve the Steelers as a sort of street gang / mafia as in for life or blood out when the reality is it's just another large corporation that you and I happen to love.

During an era when gun and gang violence is at its peak, Kelley's play serves as a powerful reminder that we — all of us — have so much work still ahead.

«When a portion of your population glorifies violence, money, and is hostile to any form of authority» = that is the American motto — and not really at all specific to gangs.

The shootings were a depressing replay of the deadly violence that overshadowed J'ouvert last year, when Carey Gabay, a former aide to Gov. Cuomo, was caught in the crossfire between rival gangs and killed.

The two became friends in 2003 when Connellan, a Syracuse police sergeant, headed the Syracuse Gang Violence Task Force.

One of those acts of violence during J'Ouvert last year took the life of Carey Gabay, staffer to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who was celebrating his Jamaican heritage, his widow said, when he was fatally injured in an unrelated gang shooting near the Ebbets Field apartments in Crown Heights.

Crows: Episode Zero Where: Roxie Theater, 3117 16th St., 415-863-1087 When: June 5, 9 and 11 Why: Based on Hiroshi Takahashi's comic books, Miike's Crows is a fast - paced exercise in style, blissfully divorced from reality as it depicts the frenetic, manga - inspired violence that ensues when rival high - school gangs battle for supremWhen: June 5, 9 and 11 Why: Based on Hiroshi Takahashi's comic books, Miike's Crows is a fast - paced exercise in style, blissfully divorced from reality as it depicts the frenetic, manga - inspired violence that ensues when rival high - school gangs battle for supremwhen rival high - school gangs battle for supremacy.

The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (R for violence and pervasive profanity) Denzel Washington stars in this remake of the 1974 action thriller as the veteran NYC subway dispatcher who saves the day when a gang threatens to execute the passengers of hijacked train unless paid a mammoth ransom within an hour.

Arriving in Okinawa with a group of raw recruits and older, experienced gangsters, Murakama discovers he is being set up, as members of his gang are killed off — in an office bombing and a frenetic, daring restaurant shoot - out; when Kitano's camera is still and silent, the outburst of violence is at once solemn and devastating.

Just when we were ready to give up on Spike Lee, wouldn't you know he'd reassert his relevance with a decent inner - city drama decrying the gang violence in Chicago?

When he closed a number of underperforming schools during his tenure as CEO of Chicago Public Schools, many displaced students were moved into similarly low - performing schools, and worse, inadvertently exposed to gang violence.

When I tell people, they immediately presume there was gang violence involved, but he's a catcher in a baseball team and someone took a dodgy swing.