Sentences with phrase «white police»

Similarly, the African - American community won't change the way white police officers view African - American males.

More than half of the names listed were shot by white police.

During a concert White police officers are seen pushing Black audience members off the stage.

Mr. de Blasio rankled police unions and rank and file cops after he expressed sympathy for anti-police brutality protests that broke out after grand juries failing to indict white police officers in the deaths of black men in Staten Island and Ferguson, Mo..

Nekima Levy - Pounds, president of the Minneapolis chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, compares the city's mostly white police department to «an occupying force» when its officers go into black neighborhoods.

It kicked off in July 1967 when white police raided a peaceful party, brutally arresting the blacks in attendance.

«Detroit» depicts the violence and anger, triggered by heightened racial tensions, between the city's largely black population and mostly white police force.

The movie's rattling centrepiece — the Algiers Motel Incident, portrayed here as an extended, horrific standoff between African - American civilians and a cadre of ferociously racist white police officers — is filmed with as much clarity and technical skill as anything Bigelow has ever made.

«I drove an old black - and - white police cruiser,» he says.

The shooting death of an 18 - year - old black man named Michael Brown by a 28 - year - old white police officer, and the weeks of protest that followed.

The decision comes at a time when racial tensions in the US are high after the Charleston massacre, arson attacks against several black - majority churches and several incidents of alleged white police brutality against unarmed black suspects in the past year.

Ferguson went into a series of riots in protest of how white police officers treat black men in their city.

I was pleased to see it on display at the press conference I watched last night, when the president spoke so eloquently about the flight of his friend, poor Skip Gates, and the indignity he had to endure from a racially insensitive white police officer.

There are some wonderful vignettes, such as the black boy straining to listen to the Cup Final commentary on a parked police car's radio, as typically arrogant white police officers try to swat him away.

«Public Safety continues to be a top priority in Buffalo, and these newly designed black and white Police vehicles are just another way we are improving the safety of our neighborhoods through increased visibility,» said Mayor Byron Brown.

Only now the primarily white police (like the NYPD) have added other minorities to list of people that they abuse.

Directed by Joe Roth, Freedomland is a thriller starring Samuel L. Jackson and Julianne Moore, about a woman whose young son is kidnapped as she drives through a predominantly black neighbourhood, and the extreme unrest that is generated when the predominantly white police spend far more resources trying to solve the case than they ever spend on crimes in which black people are the victims.

It also shows just how little the industry seems to care about the critical sentiment that has built up against Martin McDonagh's film in recent months, much of it directed specifically at Rockwell's Dixon, an ill - tempered white police officer with a fondness for beating up black suspects.

His uneasy alliance with Josh (Alex Russell), a morally conflicted white police officer, is the movie's thematic heart.

Much more, of course, was involved in the shooting than the racial composition of the schools attended by Wilson and Brown, but it is hard to shake the feeling that a lack of contact and understanding — outside of confrontations — between white police officers and black citizens lies at the heart of this and too many other tragic encounters.

PARKS, Gordon White police officer standing between two black protestors, 1963 8 7/8 x 12 3/8 inches Gelatin silver print

Behind the visual sumptuousness lie tragic events, present here in shaky black - and - white police footage.

How many times have black men armed with assault rifles carried out sniper - style attacks on white police officers?

Wall text lets you know that this refers to Bill Cosby's Fat Albert character — and thus addresses the rise and fall of his career — but also acknowledges that the piece stands as an uncomfortable reminder of how we are «confronted almost daily» with news of African Americans being killed by white police officers who typically go unpunished.

Hundreds of people gathered throughout central North Carolina Tuesday night in response to the decision in Ferguson, Missouri to not indict white police officer Darren Wilson in the fatal shooting of black 18 - year - old Michael Brown.

Made in 1992, a year that saw widespread and painful rioting following the acquittal of white police officers in the beating of Rodney King, the work was dedicated by the artist to the people of South Central Los Angeles.

Brown was killed by Wilson in an altercation last year, which began the most recent national conversation about young black men being shot by white police officers.

The verdict comes about three years after rioting broke out in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson when an unarmed black teenager was shot dead by a white police officer.

For example, Starbucks opened a store in Ferguson, Missouri two years after the community was rocked by the death of Michael Brown, a black and unarmed teenager who was killed by a white police officer in 2014.

Since the killing of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, last August, the calls to monitor law enforcement officers» use of force has spread rapidly.

St. Louis has been struggling with racial tension that threatened to divide its residents after violence broke out in 2014 after the fatal shooting of a young black man, Michael Brown, by a white police officer in Ferguson, a northern suburb.

The plaintiffs detailed a series of «militaristic displays of force and weaponry,» including being shot with rubber bullets, tear gassed, beaten and arrested during demonstrations following the shooting of the black teen by a white police officer.

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.

Both play a vital role in shaping my view of the Ferguson incident and other incidents similar to Ferguson around the country in which young African - American males are dying at the hands of white police officers.

We shouldn't be surprised that masses of incensed residents of black Ferguson marching peacefully through their own streets in protest of sub-human treatment would trigger abject fear in the hearts of Ferguson's nearly all white 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.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is undertaking one of the biggest challenges of his year - old mayoralty after a Staten Island grand jury declined to indict a white police officer in the death of an unarmed black man, Eric Garner.

Asked about the complication for Donovan's candidacy of the Garner case, in which the grand jury's decision not to bring charges against a white police officer for the chokehold - related death of an unarmed black man sparked protests and significant unrest in NYC, Walden said:

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.

In a boiling decade when the civil rights movement was in full swing and police were clashing with African - Americans across the nation, Lindsay believed the NYPD needed a Civilian Complaint Review Board to serve as a check on their power and show the public, particularly minorities, that a white police force could be held accountable by unbiased people outside the department.

Despite the controversy Mr. Donovan courted in December when a grand jury voted not to indict a white police officer in the death of Garner, a black man, the district attorney is still relatively popular in the borough and with party insiders, sources say.

Mr. Schneiderman's proposal, coming days after a Staten Island grand jury failed to indict a white police officer in the death of Garner, a black man, was received warmly by many minority elected officials.

«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.

The lack of an indictment, which came on the heels of a Missouri grand jury not indicting a white police in the shooting death of unarmed black teen Michael Brown, set off a wave of protests in New York City and across the country.

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.