brutality
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The first “Harold & Kumar” film frequently lampoons police brutality and sticks up for its marginalized characters at every turn.
From Salon • Apr. 18, 2026
Ryan Coogler launched his career with an indie look at police brutality in America.
From Barron's • Mar. 16, 2026
Paradoxically, at virtually the same time, the many stage adaptations of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1852 novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” which dramatized, or melodramatized, the brutality of slavery, were an enduring sensation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 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
Unless people are forced to confront their lies, their brutality, their wrongness, how are they supposed to put things right?
From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon
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