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Facebook removed two posts from Higgins in 2020, after he wrote he would "drop any 10 of you where you stand", referring to any armed protesters that might attend a Louisiana demonstration against police brutality.

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By the time the truth came out, Emmett had been dead for fifty-three years and the photographs taken of him in the casket made White America see the brutality it often ignored or denied.

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And she said Maduro's "criminal regime must be held accountable" for its "brutality," including holding thousands of "political prisoners" behind bars.

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Mexican authorities denied allegations of brutality and said that at least 60 police officers were injured.

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"The problem has been the speed and the brutality of the process. In six months, we are experiencing a process that should have taken over a decade" or more, he said.

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