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Resolved by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President is authorized and requested to issue proclamations (1) designating May 15 of each year as Peace Officers Memorial Day in honor of the Federal, State, and municipal officers who have been killed or disabled in the ...
African Americans have significantly contributed to the history, culture, and development of Illinois since the early 18th century. The African American presence dates back to the French colonial era where the French brought black slaves to the U.S. state of Illinois early in its history, [3] and spans periods of slavery, migration, civil rights movement, and more.
Oscar Grant III was a 22-year-old African-American man who was killed in the early morning hours of New Year's Day 2009 by BART Police Officer Johannes Mehserle in Oakland, California. Responding to reports of a fight on a crowded Bay Area Rapid Transit train returning from San Francisco , BART Police officers detained Grant and several other ...
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Donald J. Guilfoil, a detective with the Suffolk County Police Benevolent Association, initiated the federal legislation to establish a National Police Memorial in 1972. . Representative Mario Biaggi, formerly a highly decorated police officer, then took up the cause and joined forces with U.S. Senator Claiborne Pell (D-RI) to establish the national memorial to honor all of America's fallen ...
Douglas, Chicago, IL: Leonard Crunelle, John A. Nyden 1927 All Wars Memorial to Colored Soldiers and Sailors: Colored soldiers and sailors: Philadelphia, PA: J. Otto Schweizer: 1934 Mothers of Gynecology Monument: Anarcha Westcott, Betsey, Lucy Montgomery, AL: Michelle Browder: 2021 The women were patients of J. Marion Sims. John Brown and ...
Two police officers were wounded and a suspect was killed in a shooting on Sunday morning near a park in Waterloo, Iowa. State Division of Criminal Investigation Special Agent Mike Krapfl said the ...
The Afro-American Patrolmen's League, now known as the African American Police League, was established in 1968 after Chicago police officer Edward "Buzz" Palmer witnessed the effects of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's "shoot to kill" order brought on by Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination and the increase of black uprisings that followed his death.