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Los Siete de la Raza (The Seven of the Hispanic Community) was the label given to seven young Latinos from the Mission District of San Francisco, California who were involved in a 1969 altercation with police that left one officer dead.
Police training and procedures on chokeholds and restraints are coming under fire. The officer who knelt on George Floyd's neck is facing felony second-degree murder charges. An officer in ...
Prude did not respond. Vaughn then pushed on his head with one hand for 45 seconds while the attending officers chatted. [6] Three minutes and ten seconds after the restraint began, one police officer remarked that he had been vomiting during the restraint and his chest compressions appeared to have stopped. [13]
The 1969 People's Park protest, also known as Bloody Thursday, took place at People's Park on May 15, 1969. The Berkeley Police Department and other officers clashed with protestors over the site of the park, using deadly force. Ronald Reagan, then-governor of California, eventually sent in the state National Guard to quell the protests.
The fire department didn't get there for an hour." The crowd was "humongous," he wrote, and it was the security team's job to "get the house out. We were commended for handling the situation ...
On June 24, 1969, Vivian Strong, a 14-year-old Black American girl, was killed in Omaha, Nebraska, United States, when a white police officer shot her in the back of the head without warning. The white police officer, and his Black partner, had been dispatched to the location because there were "juveniles breaking in." When they arrived at the ...
Several years before George Floyd, a black man, died after being placed in a controversial knee-on-neck hold by a former Minneapolis police officer, the NAACP began prodding the police department ...
March 25, 1969 () N.Y.P.D. is a half-hour long American police crime drama set in the context of the New York City Police Department . The program aired on the ABC network from 1967–1969 in the 9:30 p.m. night time slot.