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The bystanding 28-year-old woman was pronounced dead at the scene, the 31-year-old sedan-driving man was taken to the hospital in critical condition, and the driver and passengers aboard the bus suffered minor non-life-threatening injuries, the police said.

His installation, which reads as a stop-motion blur of activity, brings to mind Sylvia Plath’s line from “Elm”: “a wind of such violence will tolerate no bystanding.”

June 5 - Minneapolis bans chokeholds by police and requires bystanding officers to stop them.

June 5 — Minneapolis bans chokeholds by police and requires bystanding officers to stop them.

“I’d hate to be bystanding this on my own.”

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

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