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The graphic body-camera footage, which Rochester police released Sunday, left city leaders demanding answers for how a family disturbance call quickly escalated into a use of force against a young girl in obvious distress.

ROCHESTER POLICE HANDCUFFED AND PEPPER-SPRAYED A 9-YEAR-OLD GIRL, BODY-CAM FOOTAGE SHOWSJACLYN PEISERFEBRUARY 1, 2021WASHINGTON POST

We’ll watch the timing of a potentially moisture-starved disturbance moving through.

D.C.-AREA FORECAST: SHOWERS BY LATE AFTERNOON OR EVENING, THEN PERHAPS SOME SNOW SHOWERS SATURDAYA. CAMDEN WALKERJANUARY 15, 2021WASHINGTON POST

Sternbeck said members of the department's civil disturbance unit escorted the Capitol-related defendants out the secondary exit.

AFTER JUDGE ORDERS RELEASE FOLLOWING ARREST, D.C. POLICE ESCORT DEFENDANTS CHARGED IN U.S. CAPITOL-RELATED CASES AWAY FROM MEDIA, PUBLICKEITH L. ALEXANDERJANUARY 12, 2021WASHINGTON POST

We will not tolerate any disturbance on board our aircraft or at any of the airports we serve.

FAA WARNS OF JAIL TIME, FINES AS AIRPORTS AND AIRLINES PREP FOR UNRULY PASSENGERS AHEAD OF THE INAUGURATIONIAN DUNCAN, LORI ARATANIJANUARY 11, 2021WASHINGTON POST

Cells also already have a native capacity to keep DNA safe from environmental disturbances.

NEW RESEARCH COULD ENABLE DIRECT DATA TRANSFER FROM COMPUTERS TO LIVING CELLSEDD GENTJANUARY 11, 2021SINGULARITY HUB

The resulting disturbances observed in the 2-D sheets of material suggest that the quasiparticles are real.

2020’S SCIENCE SUPERLATIVES INCLUDE THE OLDEST, HIGHEST AND GROSSEST DISCOVERIESERIKA ENGELHAUPTDECEMBER 30, 2020SCIENCE NEWS

To avoid such disturbances in future elections, she said, she plans to put trained poll workers outside.

PISTOLS, A HEARSE AND TRUCKS PLAYING CHICKEN: WHY SOME VOTERS FELT HARASSED AND INTIMIDATED AT THE POLLSBY ADRIANA GALLARDO, MARYAM JAMEEL AND RYAN MCCARTHYDECEMBER 4, 2020PROPUBLICA

From his perspective, the lab and his friend — assuming they are completely isolated from all environmental disturbances — continue to evolve together quantum mechanically.

A NEW THEOREM MAPS OUT THE LIMITS OF QUANTUM PHYSICSANIL ANANTHASWAMYDECEMBER 3, 2020QUANTA MAGAZINE

That’s partly because qubits are highly sensitive, even to the mildest disturbances, like a glancing photon.

QUANTUM COMPUTING IS ENTERING A NEW DIMENSIONRHHACKETTFORTUNEDECEMBER 3, 2020FORTUNE

Ecological disturbance—whether from deforestation, natural disasters, or climate change—often puts both people and animals on the move.

THE FIGHT TO STOP THE NEXT PANDEMIC STARTS IN THE JUNGLES OF BORNEOBRIAN BARTHDECEMBER 2, 2020POPULAR-SCIENCE

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