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Tag Archives: violence
Police Brutality!
The incident was over in a matter of minutes. But two weeks after the beating of a black motorist by Los Angeles policemen was videotaped by an eyewitness, it had led to arrests, probes by local, county and federal organizations and a Justice Department review of law-enforcement violence across the nation
Races: War in Little Egypt
Violence is no stranger to Cairo , Ill., a decaying former riverboat port at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.
Brief History: Video-Game Violence
California doesn’t want its children to kill Zombies.
Man Of The Year: Lyndon B. Johnson, The Paradox of Power
Even if the television tube and a ubiquitous Texan had yet to be conceived, the President of the U.S.
Transcript: President Obama’s Remarks on Egypt
Good evening, everybody. My administration has been closely monitoring the situation in Egypt, and I know that we will be learning more tomorrow when day breaks
Tucson Tragedy: Is Gun Control a Dead Issue?
Like them or not, guns are as American as covered wagons and the infield-fly rule. The revolutionaries and pioneers who forged the nation and peopled its wilderness really did cling to their guns as tenaciously as they clung to their religion.
The Low Road to Protest
Bullets and rocks fly as truckers try to block new taxes It started out as a nationwide protest against higher fuel taxes and highway-user fees for trucks. But within hours, violence eclipsed the issues
A Brief History of the Uighurs
The violence that has claimed at least 156 lives in the western Chinese region of Xinjiang this week is rooted in long-standing grievances among China’s Uighur minority. The Turkic-speaking Muslim Uighurs were traditionally the dominant ethnic group in the region whose Mandarin name, Xinjiang, means simply “New Frontier” — perhaps a reflection of the fact that the region was only brought under Beijing’s control in its entirety during the 19th century rein of the Qing dynasty.
LABOR: Violence on the Picket Line
The milling picket lines, the fire hoses, the club-wielding police were all reminiscent of the bloody strikes of the 1930s.