Examples of brutality in a Sentence

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Recent Examples on the Web Protests against the bill swelled throughout the summer as reports of police brutality against demonstrations and authorities’ initial unwillingness to withdraw the bill fueled further protest demands. — Molpasorn Shoowong, NBC News, 1 July 2022 Since the death of Patrick Lyoya, numerous protests have taken place in Grand Rapids, a city with a long history of police brutality against Black residents. — Essence, 15 June 2022 Led by the Equal Justice Initiative, the soil from these locations is housed at an exhibit at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Alabama, which showcases brutality against Black people in America, including slavery and incarceration. — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 June 2022 The series confronted hot-button topics head-on with stories centered on racial and cultural divides, including the use of the N-word, the election and presidency of Donald Trump and police brutality against Black people. — Maggie Shannon, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2022 There’s a non-graphic incidence of child brutality against Joan in the beginning of the book that, although horrifying, Stringfellow uses to lay the groundwork for the long-term growth and redemption of both Joan and the perpetrator. — Leah Tyler, ajc, 21 Mar. 2022 One of the group’s first acts was to organize a patrol to monitor allegations of police harassment and brutality against Native Americans who had settled in Minneapolis. — Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2022 These were the years of Trumpism, of unashamed white-supremacist politics, of unending police brutality against Black people. — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2021 However, several years prior in 2017, Blank had vetoed a request to include a plaque that would describe Lincoln’s brutality against Indigenous peoples. — Sylvia Goodman, chicagotribune.com, 28 Oct. 2021 See More

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