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violence

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Popular videos depicted him driving a hamburger car down the freeway, speaking to police investigating a domestic violence call, and demanding a Big Mac from servers at Burger King.

He condemned Fuentes, saying he was “fomenting Jew hatred, and his incitements are not only immoral and un-Christian, they risk violence.”

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To lower crime for good, governments must invest in violence interruption programs, public education and access to mental health care — not just policing, said James Reid and several Democratic state legislators and local politicians.

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Poverty and hunger are forms of structural violence that stunt lives, limit upward social mobility and raise the odds that a hungry child will one day end up in prison.

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“That didn’t work and was what brought us to this situation of violence in Michoacán,” she said during her morning news conference.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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