violence

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nounextreme force, intensity

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For instance, Facebook’s policy on groups tied to violence practically contradicts itself.

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People in that city are still arguing, months later, over whether those people were supporting protesters, supporting police, simply trying to incite violence, or some combination thereof.

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This makes me think of these groups that used to work on domestic violence in India.

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This summer’s unrest comes after years of failure by democratic institutions to respond to police violence.

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If social-media companies do not act swiftly to stop calls for violence against protesters, the situation can only get worse.

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Lawrence Grandpre, the research director with Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle, a Baltimore activist organization, cautions against overstating the role of underpolicing in the rise in violence.

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That means not only is the DHS neglecting to screen these children for their risk of becoming victims of violence and trafficking, but the DHS is also placing these children with strangers who are themselves potentially dangerous people.

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In Denmark, for instance, calls to emergency domestic violence shelters more than doubled in mid-March, and remained high through the end of spring.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTERS ARE FILLING UP AND CITIES ARE LOOKING TO HOTELS FOR HELPANNALISA MERELLISEPTEMBER 2, 2020QUARTZ

He can’t stop the violence because for years he’s fomented it.

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They have been driven north in large part by the ravages of civil wars in the latter years of the last century, and more recently, gang-related violence.

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