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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 ...
On Thursday, June 5, 1969, there was an alleged fight between two men that Indianapolis police officers were called to break up. [3] [1] When the police officers arrived, "a group of twenty people attacked the officers". [3] The officers were slightly injured, and in the conflict, one of their revolvers and badges were stolen. [3]
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]
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 ...
Law and Order is a 1969 documentary film directed, written, shot, produced and edited by Frederick Wiseman. It was Wiseman's third film after Titicut Follies (1967) and High School (1968). [ 1 ] The films were among the earliest examples of direct cinema by an American filmmaker.
The officers included Christian Dedmon, Hunter Elward, Brett McAlpin, Jeffrey Middleton and Daniel Opdyke of the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department and Joshua Hartfield, a Richland police officer.
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.