When Mr. Bratton became police chief here, in October 2002, the police force was demoralized after the beating of Rodney King, the subsequent riots and the discovery of a renegade unit that had been planting evidence.
This interview occurred just a few days ahead of Freddie Gray's murder at the hands of police, and subsequent riots in Baltimore, in April 2015.
That statement was significant coming from LA, where the relationship between police and communities of color has been notoriously antagonistic following the 1991 beating of Rodney King and subsequent riots.
MC has historic implications in India, where Muslim men were targeted for violence based on their circumcision status during the Hindu fundamentalist, anti-Muslim pogroms of 2002 and subsequent riots [ 177].
After eight years, the existential question still haunts many Danes: were the Mohammed cartoons worth the lives of the 200 plus that died in the subsequent riots of 2006?
Deputies threatened to charge us with the murders of those killed in the subsequent riots, including that of Chicano journalist Ruben Salazar.
The state court acquittals of the Los Angeles Police Department officers in the beating of Rodney King and the subsequent riots led to Congress granting the DOJ the power to sue police departments for a pattern or practice of constitutional violations.
The trial will determine whether alleged police failures after the 2004 death in custody of Mulrunji Doomadgee and subsequent riots were racially discriminatory.
As the recent U.S. Justice Department report on Ferguson has shown, the shooting of Michael Brown and the subsequent riots did not occur in a vacuum: systemic racism and revenue-oriented policing set the stage.
Baltimore has seen a lot of bad press lately because of the Freddie Gray tragedy, the subsequent riots, recurring gang violence, and questionable law enforcement practices.
