Why did a string of police officials resign in the months that followed?
(They have also manhandled and arrested reporters).The cause of the conflict is the latest in a string of police killings of unarmed black men across America.
Up ahead, I saw black cars pulled off the road and onto people's lawns, an ambulance, a television-news truck, limousines, a string of police motorcycles.
The surge in violence had started in 2005, and a string of police and military operations by his predecessor Vicente Fox had failed to stem the bloodshed.
In one case, the department acknowledged that a string of police missteps had led to the May 16 death of a Harlem woman when officers mistakenly raided her apartment and threw a concussion grenade inside.
Stung by accusations of abuse, corruption and cover-ups, the Miami Police Department is under intense scrutiny by federal prosecutors and the department's own investigators, who are reviewing a string of police shootings in recent years.
At news conferences and in pulpits across the city, the mayor's political foes seized on the melee as further evidence of what they described as the mismanagement of a police department that they contended was losing the faith of New Yorkers, especially in minority areas, after a string of police-involved shootings of unarmed men.
A string of police blunders led two members of the force's elite armed unit, CO19, to open fire with their guns just 1cm to 8cm away from De Menezes' head as another officer pinned him into a seat on an underground train at Stockwell station.
Nearly a dozen current and former Miami police officers have been charged with planting evidence and covering up their actions in a string of police shootings that killed three people, including a 73-year-old man who died in 1996 in a barrage of 123 bullets, the authorities said today.
Muhiyidin d'Baha, an organizer with the Charleston chapter of Black Lives Matter Charleston, said the mass shooting echoed church bombings from the civil rights era and followed a string of police shootings that has captivated the nation since the killing of an unarmed 18-year-old last summer in Ferguson, Missouri.
