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The hearing comes after the city agreed to have federal monitors observe the department, a move stemming from the settlement of a police-brutality and corruption case in 2002.
Oakland Police Struggle to Serve Bobby White 2011
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In a Jan. 15 column, Bozell slammed Alexander's poetry as having appeal "only for a snobbish elite," mostly because she once used the words "genitals" and "buttocks" in the same poem and "wrote that the Rodney King police-brutality case in 1991 was somehow akin to blacks in professional sports."
Terry Krepel: Right-Wing Media Becomes Obama Hate Central 2009
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After the riots following the Rodney King verdict, some Chicago leaders worry about a possible blowup over a longstanding police-brutality case.
Fear Of Fury 2008
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A series of ugly police-brutality cases besmirched Giuliani's crimefighting record and alienated blacks and Hispanics.
Growing Up Giuliani 2007
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As if to prove its inevitability, the Newark riot began with an ordinary police-brutality incident against a man with an ordinary name: John Smith, driver of Cab 45, in the employ of the Safety Cab Company.
A Special Supplement: The Occupation of Newark Hayden, Tom 1967
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Some of this plays out in courtrooms in real time, as lawyers and jury consultants, armed with laptops and smart-phones, seek clues about whether a would-be juror would side with a homeowner in a product-liability case, say, or with a cop in a police-brutality suit.
Reuters: Top News 2011
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Fraternal Order of Police leaders complained that morale sagged under Weis, and he drew ire for wholesale command changes he made soon after taking office and his controversial handling of a police-brutality case.
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Some of this plays out in courtrooms in real time, as lawyers and jury consultants, armed with laptops and smart-phones, seek clues about whether a would-be juror would side with a homeowner in a product-liability case, say, or with a cop in a police-brutality suit.
Reuters: Top News 2011
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Plaintiff in police-brutality case appeals to state Supremes
The Athens NEWS :: Athens, Ohio's only locally-owned newspaper :: Home Bethany Williams 2010
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Plaintiff in police-brutality case appeals to state Supremes
The Athens NEWS :: Athens, Ohio's only locally-owned newspaper :: Home Jim Phillips 2010
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