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This is a list of people reported killed by non-military law enforcement officers in the United States in 2002, whether in the line of duty or not, and regardless of reason or method. The listing documents the occurrence of a death, making no implications regarding wrongdoing or justification on the part of the person killed or officer involved.
2023-05-24 Shari Vincent (44) Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: Shortly after a pursuit, Vincent was shot by a U.S. Marshal after she allegedly produced a gun. [19] 2023-05-24 Scott MacDonald Des Plaines, Illinois: Scott, who was mentally disturbed, was shot in a hallway at an apartment building when he came at an officer with an axe. [20] 2023-05-24
Joseph Spencer (22) White Provo, UT [21] [22] [23] 2021-03-15 Stephen James Hughes (62) White Temple, PA [24] 2021-03-14 Marvin Scott (26) Black Texas (McKinney) Scott died in law enforcement custody at a corrections facility. An independent autopsy determined the cause of death as asphyxiation by physical restraint. [25] [26] [27] 2021-03-14
El Salvador: Enacts Law for a Life Free of Violence against Women (Ley Especial Integral para una Vida Libre de Violencia para las Mujeres). [244] Afghanistan: In 2010 and 2011, the Afghan Supreme Court issued instructions to courts to charge women with "running away" as a crime. This makes it nearly impossible for women to escape forced marriages.
Lipsky, 63 N.E.2d 642 (Ill. 1945), the Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, did not allow a married woman to stay registered to vote under her birth name, due to "the long-established custom, policy and rule of the common law among English-speaking peoples whereby a woman's name is changed by marriage and her husband's surname becomes ...
Signed into law by President Warren G. Harding on September 22, 1922 The Cable Act of 1922 (ch. 411, 42 Stat. 1021, " Married Women's Independent Nationality Act ") was a United States federal law that partially reversed the Expatriation Act of 1907 .
Luxembourg: A new educational law gives women access to higher education, and two secondary education schools open to females. [41] Portugal: Civil offices open to women. [42] Portugal: Legal majority for married women [42] (rescinded in 1933). [43] Taiwan: In Taiwan from 1911 to 1915 foot binding was gradually made illegal. [44]
The demand for women's suffrage [24] emerged as part of the broader movement for women's rights. In the UK in 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft wrote a pioneering book called A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. [25] In Boston in 1838 Sarah Grimké published The Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Women, which was widely circulated. [26]