Sentences with phrase «which unarmed civilians»

It's the first time Schneiderman's office has empaneled a grand jury to investigate a sitting district attorney since Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed an order in 2015 giving the attorney general authority to intervene in cases in which unarmed civilians are killed during confrontations with police.

Rensselaer County District Attorney Joel E. Abelove filed a civil complaint in state Supreme Court Wednesday that seeks to overturn an executive order Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed two years ago giving the state attorney general the authority to usurp local district attorneys in cases in which unarmed civilians are killed during confrontations with police.

The attorney general's probe marks the first grand jury investigation of a sitting district attorney by Schneiderman's office since Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order in 2015 giving Schneiderman authority to intervene in cases in which unarmed civilians are killed during confrontations with police.

Rensselaer County DA Joel E. Abelove filed a civil complaint in state Supreme Court that seeks to overturn an executive order Cuomo signed two years ago giving the state attorney general the authority to usurp local district attorneys in cases in which unarmed civilians are killed during confrontations with police.

Cuomo signed the order after Abelove challenged an executive order last July giving the attorney general jurisdiction to investigate incidents in which unarmed civilians are killed during encounters with police.

I also asked Heastie if he's concerned about the governor's increased reliance of late on his executive powers to circumvent the Legislature on key policy issues like a minimum wage increase for the state's fast food workers and creation of a special prosecutor to handle cases in which unarmed civilians die at the hands of law enforcement officers.

The attorney general's office has authority under an executive order signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2015 to enter cases in which unarmed civilians are killed during confrontations with police.

A state Supreme Court justice has thrown out a petition by Rensselaer County District Attorney Joel E. Abelove that sought to undo the state attorney general's power to take over cases in which unarmed civilians are killed by police.

ALBANY — The Republican - led Senate finance committee on Wednesday declined to vote a bill out of committee that would allow the attorney general to investigate cases in which an unarmed civilian is killed during an interaction with police.

The Democratic attorney general spent last week going back and forth with the state's district attorneys over an executive order that Schneiderman investigate instances in which an unarmed civilian dies at the hands of police, essentially supplanting the local prosecutor.

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In his final test, which simulated a school shooting, he shot an unarmed civilian, and he was shot multiple times by the active shooters and even law enforcement, who mistook him for the bad guy.

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.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman on Monday asked Governor Andrew Cuomo for the power to investigate and prosecute cases in which police kill unarmed civilians.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, a Democrat, asked Governor Andrew Cuomo in December for the ability to investigate cases in which police kill unarmed civilians.

During his annual State of the State speech, Cuomo, a Democrat, announced a seven - point program to address criminal justice reforms, which included an independent monitor to investigate cases when unarmed civilians are killed by police.

Schneiderman's staff is looking to see if it falls within the guidelines of a July 8 executive order by Gov. Andrew Cuomo which requires the attorney general's office to investigate all police - involved deaths of unarmed civilians, sources told the Daily News.

Abelove is the first county prosecutor to face charges after Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2015 approved an executive order that gave Attorney General Eric Schneiderman special prosecutor powers in cases in which a law enforcement officer causes the death of unarmed civilian.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office on Thursday released its first report on his office's role in reviewing, investigating and prosecuting cases in which police kill unarmed civilians.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo last year signed an order that required the AG's office take over as special prosecutor for cases in which a police officer shoots and kills an unarmed civilian.

The organization, of which Schneiderman had been a member before his resignation, has had a prickly relationship with Cuomo over the governor's 2015 executive order that gave Schneiderman the authority to intervene as a special prosecutor in cases involving fatal encounters between police and unarmed civilians.

Cuomo took on Raise the Age as part of a slate of criminal justice reforms in 2015, which included the establishment of a special prosecutor for cases in which police kill an unarmed civilian.

Cuomo's order, issued in the wake of the national uproar over last summer's deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., and Eric Garner in Staten Island, hands the responsibility for the investigation of unarmed deaths of civilians at the hands of police to the attorney general's office, which would also handle any resulting prosecutions that emerge.

Jeffries presented Cuomo with an award marking Cuomo's Executive Order 147, which appointed the attorney general as a special prosecutor in all cases of police killing unarmed civilians.

The court's second ruling ended a suit by the Legal Aid Society, which had sought the release of the disciplinary records from the Civilian Complaint Review Board of one officer in particular: Daniel Pantaleo, who had placed Eric Garner, an unarmed black man, in a chokehold moments before he died on a Staten Island sidewalk in July 2014.

Fryer said that after the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., and other recent cases in which police killed unarmed black civilians, Fryer felt he had to know more.

Snyder's booth will include over a dozen works, including the important «Peace Poster» (1971), which deals with the 1968 My Lai massacre in Vietnam, when US Army soldiers were responsible for the killing of almost 500 unarmed civilians.