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Beware the ease of blaming Chauvin alone. While he is a blunt instrument of police brutality and racism, he could never flourish in a police agency that lived up to its mission statement. – Bob Bennett	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The official declaration confirms what all could see in the video. Irvo, while facedown and handcuffed at his wrists and shackled at his ankles, was not permitted to breathe. For over 11 minutes, the ten officer/hospital defendants pushed down hard on every part of Irvo’s body until he was limp and lifeless, we cannot continue to treat the mentally ill with such brutality. – Ben Crump	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Irvo Otieno had an illness. Irvo Otieno should have been doctored to, not treated with brutality. – Al Sharpton	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The Iranian government needs to end its systemic persecution of women and allow peaceful protest. The United States will continue to voice our support for human rights in Iran and hold those who violate them to account, mahsa Amini was a courageous woman whose death in Morality Police custody was yet another act of brutality by the Iranian regime’s security forces against its own people. – David Dee	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Mahsa Amini was a courageous woman whose death in Morality Police custody was yet another act of brutality by the Iranian regime's security forces against its own people, we condemn this unconscionable act in the strongest terms and call on the Iranian government to end its violence against women and its ongoing violent crackdown on free expression and assembly. – Janet Yellen	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The military's willingness to forcibly disappear the country's high-profile civilian leader reveals the brutality that lesser-known political prisoners face. – Elaine Pearson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The Myanmar military junta's unjust conviction and sentencing of Aung San Suu Kyi is part of its methodical assault on human rights around the country, the military's willingness to forcibly disappear the country's high-profile civilian leader reveals the brutality that lesser-known political prisoners face. – Elaine Pearson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
What we are seeing is the brutality and ferocity with which this war is being carried out by the troops, generally mercenaries, used by the Russians, in reality, the Russians prefer to send forward Chechens, Syrians, mercenaries. – Pope Francis	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
It's not just the brutality of taking away a woman's right to her body... but it also, if you read the opinion... basically says there's no such thing as the right to privacy. If that holds... mark my words : They are going to go after the Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage. – Joe Biden	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We certainly saw people on the streets of Kyiv, evidence of the fact that the battle for Kyiv was won, but that’s in stark contrast to what’s going on in other parts of Ukraine, in the south and the east, where the Russian brutality is just horrific. – Antony Blinken	Found on Reuters 1 year ago
I think the world has continued to be shocked by the level of atrocity, the level of violence, the level of brutality, that Russia's forces have engaged in against the Ukrainian people. I think that will necessarily maintain this level of consensus within the international community, there is no sense that these countries are preparing to move on, to look the other way, and in fact, every time we gather, there is renewed horror, there is renewed condemnation, there is renewed determination to continue to see to it that our Ukrainian partners have what they need. – Ned Price	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I'm not walking anything back. The fact of the matter is, I was expressing the moral outrage I felt toward the way Putin is dealing and the actions of this man, which is just brutality. – Joe Biden	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This is driving a fury across the European Union within the public as to why can’t we stop this, they want people held to account for the decisions taken and the brutality that we have seen. – Simon Coveney	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Well, certainly we’ve all been shocked by the brutality that we continue to witness day in and day out, these attacks that we’ve seen most recently appear to be focused directly on civilians. – Lloyd Austin	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
If in fact an American journalist was killed, it is a shocking and horrifying event, it is one more example of the brutality of Vladimir Putin and his forces. They’ve targeted schools and mosques and hospitals and journalists. And it is why we are working so hard to impose severe consequences on him and to try to help the Ukrainians with every form of military assistance we can muster to be able to push back against the onslaught of these Russian forces. – Jake Sullivan	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
He’s trying to be nice … That really I think goes wrong when you talk about the other big missed opportunity which was Mr. Fund the Police, can we just talk as adults? Does anybody in good faith think that the problem with police brutality in this country is that the police aren’t funded enough? – Elie Mystal	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Breonna Taylor, like Sandra Bland and other Black women, are often relegated to the back row as the emphasis is typically placed on the systemic racism and brutality that Black men face, this is why Breonna Taylor is an icon. Sandra Bland reminds us that we need to #SayHerName and that all Black life matters. – David Stamps	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The word is inextricably linked with violence and brutality on Black psyches and derogatory aspersions cast on Black bodies, no degree of appropriating can rid it of that blood-soaked history. – Neal Lester	Found on CNN 2 years ago
At one point in time, we weren't police officers, we were just citizens, seeing incidents like George Floyd, that affected us just as regular citizens alone. We've seen a lot of police brutality videos and I know that I would never want to see my face on anything like that. – Baltimore Police Officer Jaslyn Koger	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We strongly condemn the arbitrary conditions of their detention, which reflect the brutality with which the military junta treats journalists. – Frontier Myanmar	Found on Reuters 2 years ago
We are going to be the generation that dismantles systemic racism once and for all, now and forever, we are going to be the generation that calls a halt to police brutality and gun violence once and for all, now and forever. – Yolanda Renee King	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The couple who spoke against the worthless corona protocol in Delhi yesterday have real guts, rest of the people under brutality are spineless and mute spectators and those who are saying against those couple are morons. – Rameshh Shanegar	added by anonymous 3 years ago
And people of color continue to experience brutality and being pepper-sprayed, even killed at the hands of law enforcement, and it's got to stop, one of the things I am looking into is whether there might have been a pattern of misconduct -- of police misconduct, either by these officers specifically or more broadly within the department. – Daunte Wrights	Found on CNN 3 years ago
And people of color continue to experience brutality and being pepper-sprayed, even killed at the hands of law enforcement, and it's got to stop, one of the things I am looking into is whether there might have been a pattern of misconduct -- of police misconduct, either by these officers specifically or more broadly within Windsor Police Department. – Daunte Wrights	Found on CNN 3 years ago

Beware the ease of blaming Chauvin alone. While he is a blunt instrument of police brutality and racism, he could never flourish in a police agency that lived up to its mission statement.

– Bob Bennett

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The official declaration confirms what all could see in the video. Irvo, while facedown and handcuffed at his wrists and shackled at his ankles, was not permitted to breathe. For over 11 minutes, the ten officer/hospital defendants pushed down hard on every part of Irvo’s body until he was limp and lifeless, we cannot continue to treat the mentally ill with such brutality.

– Ben Crump

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Irvo Otieno had an illness. Irvo Otieno should have been doctored to, not treated with brutality.

– Al Sharpton

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Iranian government needs to end its systemic persecution of women and allow peaceful protest. The United States will continue to voice our support for human rights in Iran and hold those who violate them to account, mahsa Amini was a courageous woman whose death in Morality Police custody was yet another act of brutality by the Iranian regime’s security forces against its own people.

– David Dee

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Mahsa Amini was a courageous woman whose death in Morality Police custody was yet another act of brutality by the Iranian regime's security forces against its own people, we condemn this unconscionable act in the strongest terms and call on the Iranian government to end its violence against women and its ongoing violent crackdown on free expression and assembly.

– Janet Yellen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The military's willingness to forcibly disappear the country's high-profile civilian leader reveals the brutality that lesser-known political prisoners face.

– Elaine Pearson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Myanmar military junta's unjust conviction and sentencing of Aung San Suu Kyi is part of its methodical assault on human rights around the country, the military's willingness to forcibly disappear the country's high-profile civilian leader reveals the brutality that lesser-known political prisoners face.

– Elaine Pearson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What we are seeing is the brutality and ferocity with which this war is being carried out by the troops, generally mercenaries, used by the Russians, in reality, the Russians prefer to send forward Chechens, Syrians, mercenaries.

– Pope Francis

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It's not just the brutality of taking away a woman's right to her body... but it also, if you read the opinion... basically says there's no such thing as the right to privacy. If that holds... mark my words : They are going to go after the Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We certainly saw people on the streets of Kyiv, evidence of the fact that the battle for Kyiv was won, but that’s in stark contrast to what’s going on in other parts of Ukraine, in the south and the east, where the Russian brutality is just horrific.

– Antony Blinken

Found on Reuters
1 year ago

I think the world has continued to be shocked by the level of atrocity, the level of violence, the level of brutality, that Russia's forces have engaged in against the Ukrainian people. I think that will necessarily maintain this level of consensus within the international community, there is no sense that these countries are preparing to move on, to look the other way, and in fact, every time we gather, there is renewed horror, there is renewed condemnation, there is renewed determination to continue to see to it that our Ukrainian partners have what they need.

– Ned Price

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I'm not walking anything back. The fact of the matter is, I was expressing the moral outrage I felt toward the way Putin is dealing and the actions of this man, which is just brutality.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This is driving a fury across the European Union within the public as to why can’t we stop this, they want people held to account for the decisions taken and the brutality that we have seen.

– Simon Coveney

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Well, certainly we’ve all been shocked by the brutality that we continue to witness day in and day out, these attacks that we’ve seen most recently appear to be focused directly on civilians.

– Lloyd Austin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If in fact an American journalist was killed, it is a shocking and horrifying event, it is one more example of the brutality of Vladimir Putin and his forces. They’ve targeted schools and mosques and hospitals and journalists. And it is why we are working so hard to impose severe consequences on him and to try to help the Ukrainians with every form of military assistance we can muster to be able to push back against the onslaught of these Russian forces.

– Jake Sullivan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

He’s trying to be nice … That really I think goes wrong when you talk about the other big missed opportunity which was Mr. Fund the Police, can we just talk as adults? Does anybody in good faith think that the problem with police brutality in this country is that the police aren’t funded enough?

– Elie Mystal

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Breonna Taylor, like Sandra Bland and other Black women, are often relegated to the back row as the emphasis is typically placed on the systemic racism and brutality that Black men face, this is why Breonna Taylor is an icon. Sandra Bland reminds us that we need to #SayHerName and that all Black life matters.

– David Stamps

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The word is inextricably linked with violence and brutality on Black psyches and derogatory aspersions cast on Black bodies, no degree of appropriating can rid it of that blood-soaked history.

– Neal Lester

Found on CNN
2 years ago

At one point in time, we weren't police officers, we were just citizens, seeing incidents like George Floyd, that affected us just as regular citizens alone. We've seen a lot of police brutality videos and I know that I would never want to see my face on anything like that.

– Baltimore Police Officer Jaslyn Koger

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We strongly condemn the arbitrary conditions of their detention, which reflect the brutality with which the military junta treats journalists.

– Frontier Myanmar

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

We are going to be the generation that dismantles systemic racism once and for all, now and forever, we are going to be the generation that calls a halt to police brutality and gun violence once and for all, now and forever.

– Yolanda Renee King

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The couple who spoke against the worthless corona protocol in Delhi yesterday have real guts, rest of the people under brutality are spineless and mute spectators and those who are saying against those couple are morons.

– Rameshh Shanegar

added by anonymous
3 years ago

And people of color continue to experience brutality and being pepper-sprayed, even killed at the hands of law enforcement, and it's got to stop, one of the things I am looking into is whether there might have been a pattern of misconduct -- of police misconduct, either by these officers specifically or more broadly within the department.

– Daunte Wrights

Found on CNN
3 years ago

– Daunte Wrights

Found on CNN
3 years ago

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