This hint of connection between them is later made concrete when, at the demonstration, the two are complicit in an act of defiance — throwing a cobblestone at a policeman, badly injuring him — and must skip town for the night.
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Guy Lodge,
Variety,
27 Oct. 2026
Walter Kale / Chicago Tribune A policeman scans the roof of the Cabrini-Green housing project with a sniper scope on a rifle on July 17, 1970.
Like Kazakhstan, Indonesia has resources vital for AI and other technologies, such as nickel and copper.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
25 Oct. 2026
Tantalizing opportunities may be found in copper-oxide ceramics known as cuprates, but achieving them requires first understanding how the superconducting phenomenon emerges at relatively warm temperatures.
Indeed, the iconic image of the unarmed British bobby was a product of this trust.
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Mark Sappenfield,
Christian Science Monitor,
11 June 2026
The great theme of the recent Tory conference was providing reassurance—putting more bobbies on the beat, building more hospitals, raising the minimum wage and otherwise spraying money all over the place.
Looser, more dangerous In contrast, FHP’s new policy gives troopers great leeway.
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Brittany Wallman,
Miami Herald,
30 Oct. 2026
Oklahoma's Highway Patrol signed all of its troopers on to 287(g), giving their officers the power to stop a driver and potentially make an immigration arrest on state highways.
French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez said some 70,000 police officers and gendarmes would be deployed, along with helicopters, armored vehicles and water cannons.
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ELITSA GADEVA,
Arkansas Online,
24 Oct. 2026
Nearly 1,000 police officers and gendarmes were injured, the ministry said.
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