Sentences with phrase «when white police»

Monsters And Men writer / director Reinaldo Marcus Green stopped by Deadline's Sundance Studio, along with cast members John David Washington, Kelvin Harrison Jr. and Anthony Ramos to speak about the film's perspective on the racial aftermath when a white police officer wrongfully shoots a neighborhood street hustler.

Forging this kind of relationship created such a sense of trust that when the white police officer who trained me killed a young African - American male in an incident that was ruled to be a justifiable shooting in the mid 90s, there was no finger - pointing between the African - American community and the police department.

Not exact matches

The verdict comes about three years after rioting broke out in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson when an unarmed black teenager was shot dead by a white police officer.

Nekima Levy - Pounds, president of the Minneapolis chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, compares the city's mostly white police department to «an occupying force» when its officers go into black neighborhoods.

Even ESPN Films has delved into the Simpson saga in 2010, when it produced a nearly hour - long 30 for 30 documentary, called June 17, 1994, about the day police chased Simpson and his white Ford Bronco on Los Angeles» 405 freeway.

The decision comes at a time when racial tensions in the US are high after the Charleston massacre, arson attacks against several black - majority churches and several incidents of alleged white police brutality against unarmed black suspects in the past year.

So when I see Brown's corpse amid reports that he was shot by a representative of both the historic (white) and vocational (police) power structure of our country, I hope you will find it more than understandable if I cry foul.

I was pleased to see it on display at the press conference I watched last night, when the president spoke so eloquently about the flight of his friend, poor Skip Gates, and the indignity he had to endure from a racially insensitive white police officer.

The most stark difference comes in when considering that 13 percent of white Americans say they have any fear of police brutality, compared to 56 percent of black Americans, 29 percent of Hispanics and 28 percent of Asian - Americans.

White privilege is being able to lawyer up when arrested by the police.

We're introduced to Dom and his little sister, Mia (Jordana Brewster), who run a beat - up lunch counter when they're not drag racing through the streets of L.A. Undercover police officer Brian (Paul Walker), sent to investigate a string of truck robberies that Dom may or may not be involved in, is immediately distracted by Mia, who serves him tuna sandwiches on white bread with the crusts cut off.

I only see two Lazio fans cross into Roma territory, and when Roma fans spot them, they pound the poor blue - and - white scarf - wearers to the ground, setting off a rush of helmeted police who disperse the crowd.

One in particular is son of Kenneth Chamberlain Sr who was killed by the White Plains Police Department while answering a call when Chamberlain inadvertently trigger his Life Aid medical alert necklace, while he was sleeping, four years ago.

In a boiling decade when the civil rights movement was in full swing and police were clashing with African - Americans across the nation, Lindsay believed the NYPD needed a Civilian Complaint Review Board to serve as a check on their power and show the public, particularly minorities, that a white police force could be held accountable by unbiased people outside the department.

Despite the controversy Mr. Donovan courted in December when a grand jury voted not to indict a white police officer in the death of Garner, a black man, the district attorney is still relatively popular in the borough and with party insiders, sources say.

«There is something profoundly wrong when African - American men are still far more likely to be stopped and searched by police, charged with crimes and sentenced to longer prison terms than are meted out to their white counterparts.»

After a Staten Island grand jury failed to indict a white NYPD officer in the death of Garner, a black Staten Islander, last year, critics in political and academic circles charged that local district attorneys, who often work closely with the police to prosecute crimes, are too close to law enforcement to consistently bring charges against them when they run afoul of the law.

Police say Justin Tavarez, who's a student at Skidmore College in upstate New York, took offense when he saw a white man dining with a black man and smashed a plate over the white man's head.

So it came as no surprise when Police Federation boss Steve White popped up on the airwaves this weekend saying terrorism means all front - line police officers should get a Police Federation boss Steve White popped up on the airwaves this weekend saying terrorism means all front - line police officers should get a police officers should get a Taser.

White plains Police Department is also the police department where police killed retired Correction Officer Kenneth Chamberlain Sr. when they responded to a life aide Police Department is also the police department where police killed retired Correction Officer Kenneth Chamberlain Sr. when they responded to a life aide police department where police killed retired Correction Officer Kenneth Chamberlain Sr. when they responded to a life aide police killed retired Correction Officer Kenneth Chamberlain Sr. when they responded to a life aide alert.

But Bloomberg's claim was refuted by science when the NYPD toxicology lab recently returned results that said the white powder in her purse was not an illegal substance, police confirmed.

Weeks earlier, when a grand jury decided not to indict a white officer in the chokehold death of Eric Garner, de Blasio told a crowd on Staten Island that he'd had to train his bi-racial teenage son Dante how to interact with police for his own safety.

O'Neill's comments come after Mayor Bill de Blasio himself defended his decision to appoint another white, Irish commissioner at a time when tensions between police and communities of color are in the spotlight.

«Some of our police officers are making race - based discretionary decisions on who they're going to arrest for low - level marijuana possession,» said Leroy Gadsden, the president of a branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Jamaica, Queens, and the chairman of the criminal justice committee for the statewide N.A.A.C.P. «Therefore, of course, if you're a young, black male, even a female, you're going to feel that you're being targeted when you notice that your white counterparts are not being arrested for the same thing.»

«Mr. Donovan has rejected multiple debates on Wall Street issues,» said Schneiderman spokesman James Freedland, «including one scheduled earlier this month in Syracuse, because he knows it must be hard to defend his hands - off approach to policing corporate corruption when New Yorkers are losing their homes and life savings due to white collar crimes.»

The reality is that, when the victim is a rich, white, Conservative, police corruption represents a threat to our very democracy.

«My white boyfriend grew up in the suburbs and never had to experience dread when being talked to by the police if he was ever even approached at all.

The rest of «Freedomland» deals with what happens when the urban housing projects of Dempsy, N.J. — the town in which the alleged crime took place — are sealed off by the police of the neighboring, predominantly white town, Gannon, as a way of smoking out the perpetrator.

In 1994, when former football star O.J. Simpson was pursued by police down a Los Angeles freeway in a white Ford Bronco, everyone in America tuned in, then stuck around for more than a year to watch his arrest, trial, and eventual acquittal in October 1995.

When the nude body of a murdered woman washes onto the beach, a police inspector (Alberto Dalbés) and a reporter (Fernando Bilbao) focus their attention on the castle of Count Max Karlstein (composer Daniel White) and his niece (Britt Nichols, The Demons), a beautiful woman who appears to be wrestling with an ancestral curse.

Directed by Joe Roth, Freedomland is a thriller starring Samuel L. Jackson and Julianne Moore, about a woman whose young son is kidnapped as she drives through a predominantly black neighbourhood, and the extreme unrest that is generated when the predominantly white police spend far more resources trying to solve the case than they ever spend on crimes in which black people are the victims.

The movie, produced by Get Out director Jordan Peele, is about the real - life story of Ron Stallworth, the black police officer who went undercover in 1978 to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan — speaking on the phone to Klansmen and sending white officers in his place when face - to - face meetings were required.

When the police begin their investigation, it leads them to a foreigner dressed in white who arrived on plane with an American diving team.

When a friend is killed by the police, though, they commit to becoming real revolutionaries, and as their first act, they bust a noted radical, Dhari (Nathaniel Martello - White, in a terrific performance), out of prison.

When protests erupted in this community last year after the death of Michael Brown, and then later when a grand jury declined to indict the white police officer who shot the black 18 - year - old, Shawn Filer and Aniya Betts wanted to be part of the solutWhen protests erupted in this community last year after the death of Michael Brown, and then later when a grand jury declined to indict the white police officer who shot the black 18 - year - old, Shawn Filer and Aniya Betts wanted to be part of the solutwhen a grand jury declined to indict the white police officer who shot the black 18 - year - old, Shawn Filer and Aniya Betts wanted to be part of the solution.

A national debate on race was triggered last year when a black teenager was killed by a white police officer in nearby Ferguson.

«When I showed them photographs of «Colored Only» signs and police dogs and hoses being used against demonstrators, and then pictures of the KKK taken just a few years ago with young children in white robes, they understood the material in a far deeper way.»

White with red stripes, the test car drew plenty of attention, especially from police officers who appeared to squeeze the trigger on their radar guns just a little harder when we drove by.

Danny Rakestraw, one of the few white officers to sympathize with and support the department's fledgling black police force, is further conflicted when his brother - in - law, Dale, rallies the Ku Klux Klan to «save» their neighborhood from further encroachment by black families.

When the Ugandan police confiscated him, he was as white as paper beneath his hair from lack of sunlight, and two slashes in his groin oozed pus where he had struggled against the rope that tethered him.

Instead, the former San Francisco 49er launched a nationwide movement and global conversation surrounding things like racism, police brutality, discrimination, and white privilege when he was the first player to refuse to stand for the National Anthem prior to the start of a game.

Black Bomberman fleed when the police arrived, leaving his swag with White Bomberman, who was wrongly jailed.

Other works featured in LIVESupport include «Church State,» a two - part sculpture comprised of ink - covered church pews mounted on wheels; «Ambulascope,» a downward facing telescope supported by a seven - foot tower of walking canes, which are marked with ink and adorned with Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs) of the spinal column; «Riot Gates,» a series of large - scale X-Ray images of the human skull mounted on security gates and surrounded by a border of ink - covered shoe tips, objects often used by the artist as tenuous representation of the body; «Role Play Drawings» a series of found black and white cards from the 1960s used for teaching young children, which Ward has altered using ink to mark out the key elements and reshape the narrative, which leaves the viewer to interpret the remaining psychological tension; and «Father and Sons,» a video filmed at Reverend Al Sharpton's National Action Network House of Justice, which comments on the anxiety and complex dialogue that African - American police officers are often faced with when dealing with young African - American teenagers.

It noted that when somebody sprayed «fuck white art» on the door of nearby Nicodim Gallery, last October, 356 Mission attended a meeting with police over the alleged hate crime.

We're getting into a really slippery slope when we say who can take on what topic and what's off - limits, what can white artists talk about, what can a black artist, because on the flip side you have someone like Henry Taylor depicting Philando Castile, who was recently shot and killed by police, in a very large painting.

Background: Mr. Joel Debellefeuille, a Black man was driving his White wife and their son in a BMW to daycare in Brossard, a municipality in the South of Montreal, when the couple was intercepted for two police officers who made a U-turn and tailed the couple for eleven blocks, until they arrived at the daycare center.

Cintia Rosa focuses her practice on internal corporate investigations and compliance matters, leveraging her experience with criminal proceedings and white - collar crime from when she worked at the Brazilian Federal Police.

Balko notes a backlash against police militarization has been building in recent years, a promising development undermined by the fact American politicians tend to be outraged by this kind of thing when the other party controls the White House.

According to State Police she was driving a white BMW when she was pulled over around 11 pm while driving above the speed limit.