Sentences with phrase «where police killed»

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 alert.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued an executive order last year that authorized Schneiderman to investigate cases where police killed unarmed civilians and cases where «there is a significant question as to whether the civilian was armed and dangerous at the time of his or her death.»

The executive order enables the attorney general to step in and supercede county district attorneys in cases where police kill an unarmed civilian or in cases where there are questions about whether the civilian who was killed was armed or dangerous.

Cuomo's feud with de Blasio appears to be helping insulate him from backlash he has faced from police unions for signing an executive order giving the Attorney General the ability to act as special prosecutor in cases where police kill unarmed civilians.

Not exact matches

ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters)- Panicked callers to 911 during June's mass shooting in Orlando told police of buildings hit by stray bullets and wounded friends stuck inside the gay nightclub where a gunman pledging allegiance to Islamic State killed 49 people.

Similar disparities affect Minneapolis, near the tiny city of Falcon Heights where Philando Castile was killed by a police officer during a traffic stop on July 6.

Authorities said the suspected shooter, 64 - year - old Stephen Paddock of Nevada, appeared to have killed himself before police stormed his 32nd - floor Mandalay Bay hotel room, where they say he fired a high - capacity weapon on people below at a country music festival.

A spokesperson for then - New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the mayor «does not support any game where you earn points for killing police officers.»

This statistic rang true as I turned on my computer Saturday evening, scrolled through my Twitter feed, and saw #Ferguson, #MikeBrown, and other references to a police shooting where an unarmed teenager was killed in suburban St. Louis.

New footage from the scene where unarmed 12 - year - old Tamir Rice was shot and killed by police shows Rice's 14 - year - old sister running up minutes after he was shot, only to be...

New footage from the scene where unarmed 12 - year - old Tamir Rice was shot and killed by police shows Rice's 14 - year - old sister running up minutes after he was shot, only to be knocked to the ground by police officers.

This is the neighborhood where Clark was killed by police.

A 3 - year - old Rogers Park boy was hit and killed Sunday by a car that crashed through a fence and drove into a back yard where he was playing in the 7400 block of North Paulina Street, police said.

Actions against protesters included «unlawful killings and beatings by police during protests and house - to - house operations», HRW said, adding there were at least three cases where women alleged police had raped them.

City Councilmen Peter Koo (R - Flushing) and Peter Vallone Jr. (D - Astoria) held a rally for greater police presence in Flushing at the James A. Bland Community Center at 133 - 36 Roosevelt Ave., across the street from the Mobil gas station where Pakistani immigrant Nadeem Khan was killed July 25.

The order appoints the state attorney general as a special prosecutor in cases where unarmed suspects are killed by police, or when there is a question about whether a suspect was armed or not.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has appointed the state attorney general as a temporary special prosecutor to over see cases where a civilian is killed by a police officer.

Lawrence is accused of killing his daughter at Labrador Hollow, partially burning her body, and then dumping it in Syracuse's Inner Harbor, where police recovered the toddler's body on Feb. 23.

But he has never had the courage of his convictions, first voicing his contempt of Rajiv Gandhi for banning the book in a context where Indian citizens were being killed in police firing, then apologizing to the Iranian regime for writing it, only to recant once again when his contrition wasn't deemed to go far enough.

Three district attorneys have joined Rensselaer County District Attorney Joel Abelove in challenging the constitutionality of an executive order Cuomo signed two years ago allowing the state attorney general to intervene in cases where unarmed civilians are killed during confrontations with police.

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.

The latter plaque recognized the governor for signing an executive order last June that made state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman the special prosecutor for all cases where a police officer kills a possibly unarmed civilian, which Mr. Sharpton called «the only national model» for handling deaths at the hands of local law enforcement.

Suffolk police, the FBI and other law enforcement agencies responded to suspected gang killings by beefing up their presence in Central Islip, Brentwood and other Long Island communities where MS - 13 is active.

After the governor's proposals to elevate the threshold of adult criminality to 18 years and to create a special monitor to review cases where a grand jury decides not to indict a police officer for killing a potentially unarmed civilian failed to make headway in the State Senate, Mr. Cuomo rolled out a pair of executive orders.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo mentioned the Garner case when he appointed Attorney General Eric Schneiderman as a special prosecutor to handle cases where unarmed civilians are killed by police.

The House cited the case of Bayelsa State, where it said the Joint Task Force and the police had killed four «innocent Nigerians» in the last two weeks.

Hoylman said in the 2014 shooting at the University of California at Santa Barbara, where six people were killed, relatives of the gunman reported their suspicions to police, but law enforcement authorities were unable to act.

The mother of three was killed on July 5 by a bullet that tore into the mobile police command where she was stationed in The Bronx.

That order appoints Attorney General Eric Schneiderman as special prosecutor in cases where a police officer kills an unarmed civilian, or there's question of whether the person was armed.

The appointment of a special prosecutor was prompted by a number of recent incidents where civilians were killed by police, including Eric Garner, a Staten Island man who police put in a choke hold after Garner was accused of selling illegal cigarettes on the sidewalk.

An armed man was shot and killed by a police officer during a shootout where at least four to five semi-automatic weapons were shot a total of 30 times.

The state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has already asked Gov. Andrew Cuomo for an executive order to empower the attorney general to investigate and, if warranted, prosecute cases where unarmed civilians are killed by police officers.

«A majority of Democrats, independents, voters from every region and race agree that the Attorney General and not local district attorneys should have authority in cases where unarmed civilians are killed by police officers, although Democrats, New York City voters, blacks and Latinos feel most strongly about this,» Siena College pollster Steve Greenberg said.

Another was organised at St Paul's Cathedral, where families of the victims will gather with fire, police and ambulance service representatives to celebrate the emergency service workers killed on that day in New York.

In the US, where Taser use is far higher and the police are generally more trigger - happy than our own, more than 460 people have been killed by the weapons.

Less than a block from the precinct station house where New York City Police Officer Brian Moore worked, a Queens street was renamed for the officer killed in the line of duty earlier this year.

In his State of the State address in January, Cuomo announced plans to introduce an independent monitor, such as a retired judge to review police cases where an unarmed civilian is killed and the case is not presented to a grand jury.

Among those discussed is allowing the release of evidence and testimony heard by a grand jury in cases where a civilian is killed by police.

His latest statements allude to dangerous loopholes that would authorize a special prosecutor for only one year and would fail to cover all cases where civilians are killed by the police or die in police custody.

Now, the leader of the Senate Democrats has a bill to create an «Office of Special Investigation» inside the Attorney Generals» office, to automatically review and possibly investigate police incidents where an unarmed citizen is killed.

He says in the 2014 shooting at the University of California at Santa Barbara, where six people were killed, relatives of the gunman reported their suspicions to police, but law enforcement authorities were unable to act.

Baton Rouge cops block an area near the scene where three police officers were killed Sunday.

District attorneys around New York are still trying to clarify a recent executive order from Cuomo that appoints the state attorney general as a special prosecutor in cases where unarmed suspects are killed by police, or when there is a question about whether a suspect was armed or not.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has proposed requiring that his office investigate any cases where civilians are killed by police, a measure the prosecutors believe goes too far.

The appointment of a special prosecutor was prompted by a number of recent incidents where civilians were killed by police, including Eric Garner, a Staten Island man who police put in a choke hold after Garner was accused of selling illegal cigarettes.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has appointed the state Attorney General as a temporary special prosecutor to oversee cases where a civilian is killed by a police officer.

The AG's report, which includes a vendor - prepared forensic analysis, found that prosecutors «can not disprove» that Troy police officer Randall French's fatal shooting of Edson Thevenin — who fled a DUI stop and crashed his car into a concrete barrier near the Collar City Bridge, where the killing occurred — was justified.

The night of the killings, Lynch led officers in turning their back on de Blasio, as the mayor and police commissioner walked through the hospital where the two slain officers were treated.

Thy include changes to the criminal justice laws, including raising the age from 16 to 18 to treat teenagers as adults in the court and prison system, and appointing a special prosecutor in police cases where an unarmed civilian is killed.

GLENVILLE — The state Attorney General's office will not investigate the circumstances surrounding an encounter last month where police shot and killed a local man they said accosted them with a knife during a bogus domestic dispute call.