Sentences with phrase «young unarmed black man»

Looking ahead: Protests will continue in Sacramento after another young unarmed black man was gunned down by police.

Not exact matches

The shooting of Michael Brown follows a long and unfortunate list of recent killings of young and unarmed black men... Oscar Grant, Trayvon Martin, Jonathan Ferrell, Jordan Davis just to name a few.

Has it made a difference or slowed the gunning down of young, unarmed black men who brandish mobile phones that officers mistook as firearms, resulting in six shots to the back?

But to many, the circumstances of Ferrell's death followed a distressingly familiar pattern, touching the rawest of nerves: another young, unarmed black man killed, his life seemingly deemed disposable.

Add these locations and names to the long list of young black unarmed men (and women) who are racially profiled and injured or killed at the hands of Police Departments around the country.

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN, NY — Peter Liang, the rookie NYPD officer found guilty of manslaughter last month for fatally shooting young, unarmed black man Akai Gurley in a dark East New York stairwell in 2014, may never see the inside of a jail cell.

«I was impressed with what Stephon's brother Stevante said that how proud he was of Sacramento, of his city, how people turned out and made this case a national one and brought attention because I think too often, our elected leaders, they will talk about things when it's a lot of children in a school, but when it's young black men of color who are being shot by the police unarmed... I think if we're gonna say black lives matter, we have to mean it, and we have to implement change,» she continued.

Starring John David Washington, Anthony Ramos and Kelvin Harrison Jr., the plot centers on the tight - knit community of Bed - Stuy in Brooklyn, where a young father witnesses the police shooting of an unarmed black man.

The wunderkind's previous two movies — 2013 Sundance darling Fruitvale Station, about the killing of Oscar Grant, an unarmed black man shot in the back by police while facedown on an Oakland subway platform; and 2015's Rocky reboot, Creed, about a young boxer who grows up in juvenile detention and learns to channel his anger in the ring — were both critical and box - office hits, leaving little doubt Coogler was up to the challenge.

When young father Manny (Anthony Ramos) witnesses the police shooting of an unarmed black man, the tight - knit community of Bed - Stuy is pushed to the brink in Reinaldo Marcus Green's Sundance Award - winning portrait of race, family and consequence.

A number of films touching on controversial subjects during the past year also made the cut including The Hunting Ground, about campus rape; 3 1/2 Minutes, 10 Bullets, about the shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white man in Florida; Going Clear: Scientology And The Prison Of Belief, an in - depth look at the Church of Scientology; Winter On Fire: Ukraine's Fight For Freedom, which chronicles the unrest in the Eastern European country; and He Named Me Malala, about the young girl who survived being shot in the head by the Taliban for being outspoken about her country's education system.

The most recent case to raise the issue of racial discrimination in the United States has been the Ferguson, Missouri shooting of an unarmed young black man, Mike Brown, by a white police officer.