brutality

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This idealized view is also far more sympathetic than modern perceptions of other medieval events, including the Crusades, which are now linked with coercion and brutality.

From Science Daily

Some countries, including the United States and Qatar, have opposed the rehabilitation of ties with Assad, citing his government's brutality during the conflict and the need to see progress towards a political solution in Syria.

From Reuters

Then there’s a Black girl named Keesha, who is trying to get her own story line and level up from being a forgettable Blackground character, forever stuck in slave narratives and police brutality stories.

From New York Times

It represents the climax of Richter’s quest for a creative response to the Holocaust, and a conclusion to decades of wrestling with the question of how much horror and brutality art can, or should, show.

From New York Times

Police brutality: Seven California Highway Patrol officers were charged with involuntary manslaughter in the 2020 death of a man in custody in Altadena, The Associated Press reports.

From New York Times