Authorities refused to arrest the soldier; instead, officers threatened the parents with punishment if they did not accept a cash bribe to keep quiet.
Instead, Officer Thomas Bennett said he called investigators to report only that Mr. Avila had been needlessly stripped after a struggle with officers.
On Capitol Hill, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a New York Democrat, put forward a draft bill that would break the usual chain of command inside the military for cases of sexual abuse, taking responsibility for the decision on the way they are handled away from commanders and giving them instead to lower-rank officers with special training on the prosecution of criminal offences.
Why we shouldn't see your smile, your care, your open arms instead of those dark officers with black boots and buckles.
"Instead he came toward the officers with that hammer".
And when several hundred protesters chanted from across the street toward the Ferguson police headquarters on Friday night, there was only a thin blue line of about 15 officers, with sidearms instead of rifles, staring back.
Instead, he merely emphasized that Highway Patrol officers, with the backing of the National Guard, would be at the ready should anyone try an attack.
At credible fear interviews — a crucial step in the asylum process in which an immigration officer asks questions to determine whether an immigrant's fear of returning home is genuine — mothers reported being unable to answer basic questions and instead pleading with officers for information about their kids.
The administration's new policies do not provide officers with new options or increased flexibility, but instead order officers not to enforce laws".
Across Tehran on Saturday, major intersections that had been filled with protesters last summer were filled instead with police officers in riot gear, witnesses said.
