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Sunday, 20 November 2011

Suppressing Nonviolent Dissent

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An anthology of police brutality at encampments across America.

Suppressing nonviolent dissent. Photo by Adrian Kinloch.

Veterans assaulted with truncheons, women dragged through the streets by their hair, grandmothers pepper sprayed in the face, peaceful protestors bludgeoned while sitting. Sound like something authorities in Egypt, Tunisia or Syria would order and condone? Think again. It's happening here in the US.

Officer deploys chemical agent on University of California, Davis (UC Davis) students without any provocation other than sitting peacefully on the ground, with their arms linked. 


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