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How to use the word bystanders in a Sentence?

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It was a large response not only from all the public safety agencies, police, fire, as well as the bystanders to rescue those that were initially injured.

Belvidere Fire Chief Shawn Schadle

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If a bullet cost $ 5,000, there ’d be no more innocent bystanders.

Chris Rock

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The evidence of abuse would have been buried with Tony Mitchell but for the bravery of a lone corrections officer who made a video of what really happened to Tony and shared one of them. And, they fired her for exposing the truth of this abuse, there needs to be a federal statute requiring bystanders to report inmate abuse and providing statutory whistleblower protection to those who do. I sent a letter to the jail before we filed this case telling them to preserve all of their electronic recordings – if they have destroyed them then I can only imagine the horrors they have hidden.

Jon Goldfarb

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The silence by players and the league allow violence to continue, particularly in high risk all-male groups where group loyalty is engrained, instead the league should empower players to speak out as active bystanders and allies in the prevention of violence.

Jacquelyn Wiersma-Mosley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Democrats spent the summer living a lie, pretending to be innocent bystanders in slick television ads while they worked with Joe Biden to trash Republican Senate candidates economy and raise Republican Senate candidates taxes.

Steven Law

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Discharging a gun in a public place is a serious offense that could have ended with tragic consequences not only for the person targeted but also for innocent bystanders visiting Hollywood, my office conducted a thorough review of the evidence in this case and determined that the addition of a special firearm allegation was warranted.

George Gascón

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In a republic, there are no bystanders, there are no spectators.

Liz Cheney

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Overwhelmingly, it has been gratitude from the female athletes walking out, as well as many parents and bystanders thanking us, high-fiving us.

Annabelle Rutledge

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Anytime that there's guns involved, the danger to innocent bystanders is extremely high.

Executive Police Chief Matt Slinkard

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Our own research has shown pretty conclusively that hitting a punching bag increases the likelihood that Ryan Martin will aggress against real people, including innocent bystanders.

Brad Bushman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The parents and bystanders did a really fantastic job, they got us coming really quickly and allowed the little one to have the best possible chance, even as paramedics this is an incredibly rare and tragic event to get called to.

Tom Holland

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The bystanders are really the heroes here, they banded together, saved Caleb's life and got the driver stopped and under control.

Bob Ingelhart

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

All of these officers were potentially at risk from Brown's operation of the vehicle, brown threatened the life and safety of the officers on the scene and any possible civilian bystanders, giving a reasonable officer a compelling reason to end the encounter.

District Attorney Andrew Womble

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Foot pursuits put everyone involved at risk, the officers, the person being pursued and bystanders, we have to do better, and I charge the superintendent with bringing to me a policy that recognizes how dangerous this is. We can't afford to lose more lives.

Lori Lightfoot

Found on CNN
3 years ago

So long as they're bystanders, they just keep their heads down, which is probably the best move, politically.

Liam Donovan

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Even as anarchists mindlessly tear up American cities while attacking police and innocent bystanders, we Republicans do recognize those who work in good faith towards peace, justice and equality, in fact, it was Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, Dwight Eisenhower, who said democracy is a system that recognizes the equality of humans before the law.

Daniel Cameron

Found on CNN
3 years ago

When the police arrived, Anthony Prate was taken into custody and is currently being held in CookCounty Jail without bond. Daniels grisly death has put the spotlight back on the bizarre events leading up to the death of Anthony Prate first wife, Bridget Prate, who died in 2011. CHICAGO TODDLER UNHURT AS FATHER AND ANOTHER MAN DIE IN GUNFIRE EXCHANGE In that incident, Anthony Prate claimed Anthony Prate overheard Anthony Prate wife talking to another man and said they were plotting to kill Anthony Prate. Anthony Prate dialed 911 and demanded that both Anthony Prate wife of nearly 20 years and the man she was talking to be arrested. When authorities arrived, Bridget Prate told them it had all been a big misunderstanding and the officers left. Anthony Prate was charged with first-degree murder in the Nov. 23 death of Anthony Prate girlfriend Malgorzata Daniel, a 48-year-old nurse who authorities said was stabbed 30 times in her home. ( Cook County Jail) Less than a week later, she was dead. Police found Bridgets crumpled body under the dashboard of a car that crashed while Prate was driving. Anthony Prate told the police that Anthony Prate wife had unbuckled Bridget Prate seat belt to look for Bridget Prate purse and a water bottle just seconds before Anthony Prate lost control of the vehicle, crossed over the center line, and hit an oncoming car and a tree before coming to a stop. When paramedics arrived, three bystanders had surrounded the car while Anthony Prate attempted to give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to Anthony Prate wife. Bridget Prate didnt have a pulse and Bridget Prate wasnt breathing. One of the bystanders said Anthony Prate, who had suffered only minor injuries, looked frantic and shocked.

Chicago Tribune

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Illinois law has long held felons accountable for any foreseeable deaths that occur during the commission or attempted commission of a' forcible felony.' This includes the death of innocent bystanders in addition to the deaths of co-felons.

State Attorney Michael G. Nerheim

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We believe there can be no bystanders, no one on the sidelines of this, particularly in our hemisphere.

Mike Pence

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

There was something chivalrous about Joe Biden saying, you know, if Joe Biden said that and we were in high school I ’d take Joe Biden out back and I ’d kick Joe Biden butt, i thought, Joy Behar know, there’s something about that. Because Joe Biden was also speaking at an event where Joe Biden was encouraging men to stick up for women, not be just bystanders. So I don’t know.

Sunny Hostin

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Thank God that guy is alive and not hurt. It’s just a miracle that no one else was really injured. And that nothing else really happened - no fire or bystanders standing by.

Photographer Zak Bartleet

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Since it seems nearly everyone has a phone on them nowadays, it’s rare that someone would have to run off to use a landline and leave someone clinically unstable alone, at the very least, a cell in every hand has helped bystanders activate emergency medical services more rapidly.

Timothy Plante

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The release of the Presidential Policy Guidance is long overdue, and we are gratified that the administration has agreed with us that much of it should finally be made public, we hope that the administration's decision to release this critical document reflects a broader commitment to make the lethal drone program more transparent. In that spirit, the administration should also release the legal memos that are the foundation for the program, basic information about those killed in past drone strikes, and detailed investigative files relating to strikes that killed bystanders.

Jameel Jaffer

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I hope that people do not take these types of situations into their own hands, luckily, only the suspect was hurt, but there are situations where innocent bystanders could’ve been hurt as well.

Sherley Wagnac

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

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