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(Gun shots) Since 2012, the world has witnessed the killings of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Sandra Bland, Tamir Rice and literally countless other unarmed black citizens at the hands of the police, who frequently walk away with no punishment at all.
In consideration of these victims and the several times that even I, a law-abiding, Ivy League professor, have been targeted and harassed at gunpoint by the police.
What about judges, customs officers and police officers, who deal with liars on a daily basis?
I'm not a police officer or a social worker.
In many places you may be coerced into paying a bribe or even into having sex with a police officer to avoid arrest.
Police and prison guards in Cambodia, for example, have been documented subjecting sex workers to what can only be described as torture: threats at gunpoint, beatings, electric shocks, rape and denial of food.
Another worrying thing: if you're selling sex in places like Kenya, South Africa or New York, a police officer can arrest you if you're caught carrying condoms, because condoms can legally be used as evidence that you're selling sex.
How about if you're worried the police officer would rape you when he got you in the van?
I told the guy to leave or I'd call the police.
But during a police crackdown on sex workers and their clients, she was forced to work alone to avoid being arrested.
If you need their money, you need to protect your clients from the police.
You can see here that the police are confused about what to do with them.
They used the police instead of the army.
Most of us don't really know the difference, do we, between a sheriff and local police and the FBI.
Because a raid at your workplace, a chance encounter with local police could change the course of your life forever.
And hours later, I was standing topless and barelegged in front of the police, having the cuts and bruises on my naked body photographed for forensic evidence.
In Wisconsin, a defendant was sentenced to six years in prison for evading the police.
In August of 2014, protests broke out in Ferguson, Missouri, after the killing of an African-American teenager by a white police officer, under murky circumstances.
What this means is that, if the police seize an iPhone and it has a password, they'll have a difficult time getting any data off of it, if they can do it at all.
So if the police seize an Android phone, chances are, they'll be able to get all the data they want off of that device.
As they end up failed by the education system, they're on the streets where they're vulnerable to violence, police harassment, police brutality and incarceration.
The man who murdered my brother turned himself in to the police shortly after the murders, saying he killed three kids, execution-style, over a parking dispute.
The police issued a premature public statement that morning, echoing his claims without bothering to question it or further investigate.
So those of you who recognized the first group of names know that these were African-Americans who have been killed by the police over the last two and a half years.
And everywhere, the awareness of the level of police violence that black women experience is exceedingly low.
There's police violence against African-Americans, and there's violence against women, two issues that have been talked about a lot lately.
Police violence against black women is very real.
The level of violence that black women face is such that it's not surprising that some of them do not survive their encounters with police.
Black girls as young as seven, great grandmothers as old as 95 have been killed by the police.
He got the police in Ghana to show up with a crane and threaten to board the ship, and it wasn't until the navy officers drew their weapons that they called off the operation.
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