brutality

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Ryan Coogler launched his career with an indie look at police brutality in America.

From Barron's • Mar. 16, 2026

The author is also refreshingly clear-eyed in criticizing the brutality of the Paul Kagame regime in Rwanda, for instance, and commendably avoids the usual endorsement of any autocrats who produce high growth.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026

Like Marge, they refute brutality and rally against it.

From Salon • Feb. 7, 2026

The department’s civilian oversight panel voted unanimously during Tuesday’s meeting that the shooting that killed 30-year-old Linda Becerra Moran, whose case has galvanized police brutality activists, was “out of policy.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2026

The worship of Dionysus was centered in these two ideas so far apart—of freedom and ecstatic joy and of savage brutality.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton