brutality
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Ryan Coogler launched his career with an indie look at police brutality in America.
From Barron's • Mar. 16, 2026
Anyone lampooned with a scintilla of brutality knows that an appearance can temporarily inoculate against accusations of humorlessness.
From Salon • Mar. 6, 2026
The author is also refreshingly clear-eyed in criticizing the brutality of the Paul Kagame regime in Rwanda, for instance, and commendably avoids the usual endorsement of any autocrats who produce high growth.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026
The department’s civilian oversight panel voted unanimously during Tuesday’s meeting that the shooting that killed 30-year-old Linda Becerra Moran, whose case has galvanized police brutality activists, was “out of policy.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2026
Maybe they knew their own gift of imagination colored too rosily the poverty and brutality of their lives and made them able to endure it.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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