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“Iza then held the victim at gunpoint and demanded the victim’s business partner transfer money to him, which the victim’s business partner did later that day.”

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The big rig, which was not hauling anything at the time of the chase, was finally reined by multiple unmarked vehicles and Fontana police at Beach Boulevard and Franklin Street just after 11 a.m., where two men inside the vehicle exited at gunpoint.

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She claims that she’s used the N-word only once to describe an incident that took place in 1986, when she allegedly was held at gunpoint by a Black man.

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But of course it’s not, especially when citizens and legal residents are being stopped at gunpoint and dragged from their cars.

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As a result, a number of American citizens found themselves physically assaulted and held at gunpoint until they could produce documentation.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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