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How to use the word unarmed in a Sentence?

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Why do we want to see the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act passed ? Because then Pool Harris have to think twice before Pool Harris beat Tyre Nichols. Pool Harris think twice before Pool Harris shoot at someone unarmed.

Al Sharpton

Found on CNN
1 year ago

People from around the world watched the videotape of a man – unarmed, unprovoked – being beat to death by officers of the law, you thought that no one would respond. You thought no one would care. Well, tomorrow the Vice President of the United States is coming to his funeral.

Al Sharpton

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The (Chinese) response is so far divorced from reality that it is fictional. An unarmed, airliner-sized aircraft does not aggressively turn into a nimble armed fighter.

Robert Hopkins

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The 135 is an unarmed aircraft. Why does the PLAN consider it necessary to intercept carrying missiles when the intent was to visually identify the aircraft? Doing this is potentially dangerous and could lead to a major and tragic incident.

Peter Layton

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Officer Lucas ' was acquitted in rural Hunt County Texas by an all white jury, at the time of Officer Lucas ' murder Officer Lucas ' [ Price ] was unarmed and did not pose a threat to any one.

Lee Merritt

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I am all for increasing foot patrols, however, unarmed security ambassadors can only supplement, not replace, sworn police officers, most of the residents and businesses I have heard from are opposed to cutting the sheriff’s budget.

Lauren Meister

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

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added by unochickie
1 year ago

Such excessive use of lethal force against an unarmed civilian is unacceptable. i felt very angry when I saw the video, I do not know where to go with all this anger.

Ghada Sabateen family

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This is not a cop found guilty of murder for using his knee to pin down a person for nine minutes as he gasped for air, this is not a cop found guilty of manslaughter for intentionally drawing his firearm and shooting across his partner to kill an unarmed woman as she approached his car. This is a cop who made a tragic mistake. She drew her firearm thinking it was a Taser, and ended up killing a young man.

Hennepin County Judge Regina Chu

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We rely on officers to follow their training and to deescalate situations; instead, in just eight minutes, Officer Cha elevated a nonviolent encounter to one that took Sean Moore’s life. Sean Moore was unarmed and at his own home when Officer Cha shot him twice.

Chesa Boudin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It was objectively unreasonable for officers to have applied this level of force on my sixteen-year-old client, he was cooperative, surrendered, unarmed, non-resisting, compliant, and non-threatening. This conduct is universally unacceptable in any society.

Wesley Ouchi

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There is no army greater than an unarmed united people defending a country.

Wesley D'Amico

added by WesleyD'Amico
2 years ago

My heart was broken. Here is this young man — another young man — that’s just killed, unarmed and killed. It made me question, ‘Why is this becoming a thing?'.

Gwendolyn Berry

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I walked the streets, everybody was walking and protesting, and you could just feel the tension, my heart was broken. Here is this young man — another young man — that’s just killed, unarmed and killed. It made me question, ‘Why is this becoming a thing?'.

Gwendolyn Berry

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I promised them that when I came amongst them, I would come unarmed. There were times when it was extremely tense in the streets and they were threatening to kill a black cop. Yet I volunteered to be there, to stand with them, when you take your oath to protect and serve the people, those are the risks that you take.

Lacy Davis

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If you're shooting an unarmed child with his hands in the air, it is an assassination. as a mom, this is not something Adeena Weiss-Ortiz want children to see.

Lori Lightfoot

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It's just so unconscionable and unbelievable... that within 10 miles(of) the trial regarding the killing of George Floyd is taking place that a police officer would yet again kill another unarmed Black man, if ever there was a time in America where the police should be on their greatest behavior.

Ben Crump

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed

William Shakespeare

added by ValidVibes
3 years ago

A handful of people, blacks, something under 20 in the course of a year are unarmed or killed by police and 6,000 killed by other blocks, and yet we only hear the names of those taken by police.

Bob Woodson

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Jacob Blake, while actively resisting, arms Jacob Blake with a knife, it's absolutely incontrovertible that Jacob Blake was armed with a knife during this encounter. ... All the discussion that Jacob Blake's unarmed contradicts even what Jacob Blake Jacob Blake has said multiple times.

Michael Graveley

Found on CNN
3 years ago

There's video that the family understands exists, that after seven minutes of him laying motionless on the ground, they did put him in handcuffs, so we're demanding that the other police bodycam video be released so the world can see that they continued to show disrespect to unarmed Black people.

Ben Crump

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I was hit with a baton on my left arm right above the elbow, we were unarmed peaceful protesters and did not warrant this hate and brutality from The NYPD. We were standing up for the victims of police brutality at the hands of the police and specifically, The NYPD.

Ivonne Rayo

Found on CNN
3 years ago

They will be unarmed and assist with infrastructure protection and crowd movement, they will only be utilized if absolutely necessary and we appreciate their efforts to help in this important work.

Jay Insleeactivated

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The reasoning seems to be to show in the most significant way possible that the US is just not going to allow the continued violence—the rocketing of our bases, the killing of an American contractor, the attacks on shipping, on unarmed drones—without a very significant response.

Former CIA director David Petraeus

Found on CNN
4 years ago

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