Sentences with phrase «where unarmed suspects»

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.

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.

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Police patience and de-escalation are sorely needed in our overpoliced society where I have witnessed a police officer yelling his head off at a driver who had apparently innocently misundertstood re-routing instructions, another police officer smirkingly and condescendingly repeating to a scared man on the ground to «shut up» (here is how my teacher Jun Yasuda would respond to being told to «shut up»), and police on video using excessive force right up to fatally shooting unarmed suspects who pose little to no harm.