Sentences with phrase «white officer»

«You had two black officers who didn't draw their weapons and one white officer who [shot],» he says.

Since grand juries failed to indict white officers in Ferguson, Mo., and New York City in the deaths of Michael Brown and Garner, outraged protesters have taken to the streets nationwide and stoked tensions between police and the communities they are sworn to serve.

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.

The suit says Burks was often subjected to verbal harassment by white officers who made inappropriate comments about a photograph in Burks's cell of his girlfriend, who is white.

This infamous photograph of white officers attacking Walter Gadsden with a police dog was taken during the Birmingham, Alabama, riot in 1963.

This infamous photograph of white officers attacking William Gadsden with a police dog was taken during the Birmingham, Alabama Riot in 1963.

«You have mostly white officers patrolling a poor black neighborhood where they have no real nexus to the community, where there are high rates of complaints against the use of excessive force by police and the over-criminalization of the African American community,» Levy - Pounds said.

The same bigoted white officers will be policing the streets and routinely violating citizens» rights, particularly minority citizens, with few if any repercussions.

If our Westchester County Justice system can create an atmosphere guilt of Black officers but White officers continue to violate policies, then any young man, especially, a young black man does not have a chance for any real transparency of the law in Westchester County.

And if the idea of a Civil War - era white officer going to battle beside an all - brown army smacks of Glory, well, Zwick also directed Glory.

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.

The U.S. military recognized that minority officers were not afforded the same opportunities for career advancement as white officers, and addressed this by taking deliberate and targeted measures.

The primary story is based on based on the Algiers Motel murders: during the rebellion, on July 25, three young black men were tortured and killed by three white officers who were reportedly playing something they called «the death game» (pretending to kill suspects in order to get them to confess to crimes).

The Daily News has taken the racial angle on the shooting right away: Black cop killed by white officer: Horror in East Harlem as off - duty rookie is shot pursuing suspect;

The Hollywood Reporter broke the news yesterday that that duo will be teaming up for the film version of «Black Klansman,» the true story of Ron Stallworth, a Colorado Springs, Colo. - based detective who managed to rise through the leadership ranks of the KKK in 1978, largely by phone and correspondence, and by sending a white officer in his place for any meetings.

Such calls having been growing across the country since the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown, a black teenager, by a white officer in Ferguson, Mo., in 2014.

Slager is the white officer who shot an unarmed black man, Walter Scott, last year, which...

Slager is the white officer who shot an unarmed black man, Walter Scott, last year, which further exacerbated tensions between law enforcement and many within the black community — basically a theme of 2015.

Jason Stockley, a white officer, killed Anthony Lamar Smith in December 2011.

From June through Labor Day, Captain Ransom Pingree Kelley, resplendent in blue and white uniform and white officer's cap, sails out of Maine's Boothbay Harbor, Christmas Cove and Pemaquid Beach with boatloads of tourists in bathing suits and Bermuda shorts.

White officers can and should be replaced by women and / or minority officers if the white guys refuse to change.

The move came in a letter that Schneiderman sent to Cuomo Monday and was sparked by the decision of a Staten Island grand jury not to indict a white officer in the chokehold death of a black man, Eric Garner.

Grand juries declined to indict the white officers in both instances.

Mr. Dinkins, during his visit, walked a beat with officers in the 120th Precinct after a news conference heralding a decline in overall crime, but he also got a frosty reception from some white officers, Mr. Steisel said.

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.

In rolling out the program in December — just days after a Staten Island grand jury decided not to indict a white officer in the chokehold death of an unarmed black man — NYPD commissioner Bill Bratton said the devices would alter police interactions.

Advocates echoed Mr. Lancman's urgency, arguing the Right to Know Act and the chokehold ban are just as needed now as they were the day a grand jury declined to indict the white officer who killed Garner.

The white officers declined,» the police commissioner said.

Users of the popular dating site In realistic video simulators, white officers were more hesitant to fire at black suspects, and shot unarmed whites three times more often.

Washington stars alongside Adam Driver, who plays the white officer who stands in for Stallworth during face - to - face meetings.

Even though Stallworth was black, he managed to become head of his local KKK chapter by pretending to be a white supremacist via phone or written correspondence; when his presence was needed, Stallworth recruited a white officer to take his place.

The movie centers around the true events in the 1978 Colorado Springs, where an officer pretends to be a white supremacist over the phone and send a white officer in his place for in - person meetings.

He sent a white officer in his place for any in - person meetings.

When his presence was required, the officers sent a white officer in who doubled him and became highly regarded within the organization.

Trouble still finds Collin when he's alone, however — he watches a white officer kill an unarmed black man at an empty intersection, then has a nightmare about facing the shooter in court.

Even worse are Terrence Howard's earnest Colonel Bulard, fighting for recognition from the white officers in charge («You want us to go away.

By pretending to be a white supremacist over the phone and sending a white officer (Adam Driver) in his place for in - person meetings, he was able to become the head of the local KKK chapter and sabotage their activities from within.

Rake, a white officer, who tries to be fair, finds out that his bigoted brother in law, Dale, a member of the Klu Klux clan, has set out to help his clan fix that problem.

Yet the more compelling expression in the photograph is not the smugness of the white officer but rather the pride of the arrested men's faces.