“It is not better that all felony suspects die than that they escape. Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so. It is no doubt unfortunate when a suspect who is in sight escapes, but the fact that the police arrive a little late or are a little slower afoot does not always justify killing the suspect.” LittlesDoeFactsUseDiesForceDoubtFailingLateSightPoliceThreatKillingHarmNo DoubtJustifySuspectsOfficersUnfortunateFelonyDeadly Force Author:Byron White
“Any use of the names of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, in connection with any violence or killing of police, is reprehensible and against the pursuit of justice in both cases.” UseNamesJusticeCasesViolenceConnectionsPoliceKillingPursuitBrownEricPursuit Of Justice Author:Al Sharpton
“When you have an individual that is committed to killing someone else, you can`t expect a restraining order or the police to provide 24-hour protection.” OrderPoliticsIndividualHoursPoliceKillingCommittedProtectionRestrainingKilling SomeoneRestraining Orders Author:William Bennett
“I was getting money for showing one man killing another. Two lives were destroyed and I was getting paid for it. (On his 1968 photograph of the summary street corner execution of prisoner Nguyen Van Lem by South Vietnam's police chief, Lt. Col. Nguyen Ngoc Loan.)” MenTwoStreetsPaidPoliceSouthKillingPhotographCornersDestroyedChiefsOne ManPrisonerVietnamExecutionLoanVansGet MoneySummaryStreet CornersTwo Lives Author:Eddie Adams
“The police killings of unarmed African Americans has got to stop.” PoliceKillingAfrican AmericanUnarmed Author:Bernie Sanders
“He was in Poland to participate in the NATO conference, President [Barack] Obama did respond well to the back-to-back killings, as well as to the attacks on Dallas police officers that followed.” WellsPresidentPoliceKillingBarackOfficersConferencesPolice OfficerPresident Barack ObamaNatoPolandDallas Author:Julianne Malveaux
“From the first day I took the decision as President to defend my country. So, who killed ? That's another question. Actually, the terrorists have been killing our people since the beginning of this crisis two years and a half ago, and the Syrian people wanted the government and the state institutions and the army and the police to defend them, and that's what happened.” PeopleYearsFirstsHas BeensTwoCountryStatesGovernmentWantedPresidentDecisionHalfHappenedArmyPoliceCrisisInstitutionsKillingTerroristTwo Years Author:Bashar al-Assad
“When killings of black by policeman happen, there's the victim, there's the family, there are the police, there are the politicians, and there is the community. Everybody is affected. Everybody has a point of view. We really wanted to dig into that and get to know all these different people that are changed by it.” PeopleKnowsDifferentHappensWantedBlackCommunityViewsChangedPoliticianPoliceVictimKillingPoint Of ViewAffectedDifferent PeoplesPolicemen Author:Gina Prince-Bythewood
“Most of the things I'm talking about are essential human rights. I don't think it should be political to say that children should be able to have lunch at school when their families can't afford to feed them properly, or to say women should have access to basic health care, or that Muslims deserve equal protection under the law, or police shouldn't be killing black people and getting away with it - it shouldn't be a political thing to say. A lot of people on the right standing behind Christian values should be standing with us, because equality is a basic tenet of Christianity.” PeopleThinkingChildrenCareSchoolChristianPoliticalValuesBlackChristianityEqualDeservePoliceKillingHuman RightsProtectionHealth CareGet AwayBlack People Author:Zoe Kazan
“There was a courtroom scene where my son is convicted of killing Kevin Spacey's character. I find the bloody T-shirt and realize my husband did it. I get up the courage to take the shirt and send it to the police as evidence. I go out of the house for the first time. There was all this stuff I had to do that became quite truncated, because they slimmed down the movie. I understand the American Beauty is brilliant without all that stuff, but for me, personally, it was hard to see all that go.” CharacterHouseRealizingSonSceneHusbandEvidenceFirst TimePoliceKillingBrilliantShirtsMy HusbandMy SonBloodyCourtroom Author:Allison Janney
“Multiple studies, including from the Justice Department, have shown that the guns used in homicides, including the killing of police officers, overwhelmingly tend to be small-caliber handguns. Moreover, gun ownership has increased over the past 20 years — the same period in which both the violent crime rate and the killing of police officers have been in decline.” YearsHas BeensPastUsedJusticeStudyCrimePeriodsGunPoliceKillingRateIncludingViolentDepartmentOfficersDeclineOwnershipMultipleOver The PastPolice OfficerHomicideHandgunsCaliberViolent CrimesCrime RatesGun Ownership Author:Radley Balko
“I am keeping an open mind to the possibility that police officers may be abducting and killing lone travelers from airports.” MindPossibilityPoliceKillingOfficersAirportsLoneOpenTravelersAbducting Author:Steven Magee