"police violence" meaning in All languages combined

See police violence on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} police violence (uncountable)
  1. police brutality Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-police_violence-en-noun-7FefBlBA Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Law enforcement, Violence
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          "text": "19 December 2014, Paul M Farber in The Guardian Online, Die-ins demand that we bear witness to black people's fears that they'll be next\nConvened largely by black youth activists, well-attended marches against police violence in dozens of US cities are convincing displays of growing dissent – but the related acts of urgent public mourning are tools of moral indictment, not just protest. Activists are staging their own deaths because speaking out against systemic racism no longer feels like enough."
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