Sentences with phrase «white officers who»

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 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.
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.
«You had two black officers who didn't draw their weapons and one white officer who [shot],» he says.
Washington stars alongside Adam Driver, who plays the white officer who stands in for Stallworth during face - to - face meetings.

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Nicole Wong, who previously served as the White House's deputy chief technology officer, said tech companies would be reluctant to create a database of jihadists videos, even if it could be kept current enough to be relevant, for fear that repressive governments would demand such set - ups to pre-screen any content they do not like.
Lester Holt reports on Officer Bobby White of the Gainesville Police Department, who used his fame from a 2016 viral video to help police around the country better connect with the communities they serve.
That includes Kevin Harrington, a managing director of Thiel Capital, who joined the National Security Council, and Michael Kratsios, the chief of staff for Thiel Capital, who took the reins as deputy chief technology officer at the White House.
John Powell, who has been with Help - U-Sell for 28 years and is currently the Chief Development Officer, advises that you think beyond the black and white of your budget.
They were spoken by a white student who was waving a baton — similar to the kind a police officer might carry.
The video comes after several other shootings of unarmed black men by white police officers, and has drawn outrage online for how police treated Harris, who died shortly after at the hospital.
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.
In contrast the HEROISM of the WHITE Police Officer who took NINE bullets to save lives at theat temple is a real American patriot.
Since the shooting of unarmed black teen Michael Brown — and lack of indictment of the officer, who is white — sparked massive protests in Ferguson, the news has featured a seemingly constant stream...
Where Maunsel White participated in the celebrations as a city official, it is not difficult to imagine, and certainly fits logically within the time frame that Maunsel White sauce was first concocted (which is dated by two different accounts to have been either 1849 or 1850) that the alleged traveler from Central America story perpetuated in McIlhenny family lore was actually a soldier returning through the port of New Orleans from the Mexican - American war to a festive reception in June of 1847, being honored and greeted by a prominent former military officer who was also a city commissioner.
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.
The film is subtle in its appreciation of Mandela's abiding greatness: his popular and personal touch, showing how he insisted on having white protection officers among suspicious black ones and in keeping on the white civil servants who had served his white predecessor and who feared the sack from their new black president.
White House physician Read Adm. Ronny Jackson, who withdrew his nomination to lead Veterans Affairs, will not return as Trump's personal doctor, and will be replaced by Sean Conley, a Navy officer who has filled in for Jackson over the past month.
Federal prosecutors began presenting evidence to a grand jury in Brooklyn in the death of Garner, an unarmed black man who died after being placed in a chokehold by a white police officer in Staten Island in July 2014, according to a person briefed on the matter.
Other honorees include African - American world heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson, who was sentenced to jail time for his relationship with white women, and Detective Omar Edwards, a police officer who was fatally shot chasing down a man who broke into his car.
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.
«The world saw an African - American man in Staten Island die,» Cuomo said, specifically referring to Eric Garner, the Staten Island man who died after being placed in a chokehold while he was arrested by a white police officer.
Court records obtained by the AP show Richmond University Medical Center has agreed to pay $ 1 million to the family of Eric Garner, a black man who died after being placed in a chokehold by a white NYPD officer.
A Cleveland grand jury declined to bring charges in the death of Tamir Rice, a black youth with a toy gun who was shot by a white police officer 13 months ago.
Nearly a year after the federal Justice Department declined to bring civil rights charges against a white police officer who fatally shot a black college student in Pleasantville, Westchester County in 2010, the victim's family has agreed to a $ 6 million settlement, a lawyer for the family announced.
Not only has DA DiFiore failed to indict to the officers who killed his father, she also justified their racial actions by saying that White Plains Police calling his father the «N - word» (which should have classified it as a hate crime) was just a tactic to distract him.
Washington (CNN)- An unidentified man who jumped the White House fence on Tuesday was apprehended by uniformed Secret Service officers who approached him with guns drawn.
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WBEN)- Officers with the Buffalo Police Department have been wearing a black stripe with the number 2469 in white to honor Craig Lehner, who died on October 13 during a training mission with the department's Underwater Rescue Team.
The attorney general asked for the appointment shortly after a grand jury decided not to indict a white police officer who applied an apparent chokehold that a medical examiner said killed Staten Islander Eric Garner, who is black.
He pointed out that the woman was black and the police officer who killed her is white.
Former councilman and present marriage officer Edward G. White — a Republican who has gained experience as both a sheriff's deputy and a private investigator — defeated Joe Connally, a retired corporate executive and former Marine Corps sergeant.
But that was before the grand jury this week declined to indict NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo, who is white, in the chokehold death of Garner, who is black.
The timing of Gurley's death comes at a particularly sensitive time for the department, which is bracing for possible demonstrations and protests in response to a decision from a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri, about whether to proceed with a criminal case against a white police officer who fatally shot an unarmed teenager.
Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan, who unsuccessfully sought an indictment last year against a white police officer in the death of Eric Garner, a black Staten Island man, expressed pity for the grand jury involved in the case in his first radio interview since becoming the official GOP nominee to replace former Congressman Michael Grimm.
A Staten Island grand jury declined on Wednesday to indict a white police officer in the death of Eric Garner, who died in July as officers attempted to arrest him for allegedly selling untaxed cigarettes.
Ramarley Graham, who lived in The Bronx with his grandmother, was shot to death by NYPD Officer Richard Haste in February after he was chased from White Plains Road and East 228th Street to his home nearby by police who were investigating a report of a drug deal.
«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.»
Ramarley Graham, 18, was shot dead in The Bronx by NYPD officer Richard Haste in February after police who were investigating a report of a drug deal chased Graham from White Plains Road and East 228th Street to his home nearby.
Ramarley Graham, who lived in Wakefield with his grandmother, was shot to death by NYPD Officer Richard Haste in February after he was chased from White Plains Road and East 228th Street to his home nearby by police who were investigating a report of a drug deal.
The officer, Daniel Pantaleo, who is white, wrapped his forearm around Garner's neck and wrestled him to the ground to arrest him for allegedly selling cigarettes on a street corner on July 17, 2014.
They echoed Mr. Schneiderman's concerns and lamented the outcome of the Garner case, where a white police officer was not indicted despite placing Garner, who was black, in an apparent chokehold that many say led to his death in July.
LONDON, United Kingdom — When the white smoke finally appeared from the Burberry chimneys on who would replace Christopher Bailey as chief creative officer, even the deliberations of the Vatican conclave could not have provoked such a collective gasp of astonishment.
In Fruitvale Station, he plays Oscar Grant, a 22 - year - old who, in the early morning hours of New Year's Day 2009, was fatally shot in the back while being restrained by white BART police officers at a transit station in Oakland, Calif..
Kathleen Hepburn's Never Steady, Never Still, a meditative portrait of a mother's battle with Parkinson's while her son comes to terms with his identity, is nominated for Best Canadian Film along with two other exceptional first features: Cory Bowles» Black Cop, a timely satire about an African - Canadian police officer who fights back against entitled white citizens, and Antoine Bourges» Fail to Appear, a quiet and precise study of institutional systems of support available for those on parole.
, a timely satire about an African - Canadian police officer who fights back against entitled white citizens, and Antoine Bourges»
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.
Brian Cox plays Stryker, an ex-Armed Forces officer who uses the events that took place in the White House to push his plans to invade the school.
To cite only one example — which includes a spoiler — how likely is it that the racist white cop (Matt Dillon) who gropes a well - to - do black woman (Thandie Newton) while pretending to search her for weapons one night will be the officer who rescues her from a potentially fatal car accident less than 24 hours later, or that during the same time frame his partner will save her husband from being shot by another policeman?
The details of the incident are painfully similar to those of Michael Brown's killing in Ferguson: an unarmed black male killed by a white police officer, who was not charged with a crime or disciplined in any significant way after the incident.
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