Word: arresting
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...again. Biko, the 31-year-old leader of the Black People's Convention--the political arm of his black-consciousness movement--was regarded by many as the Malcolm X of South Africa's liberation struggle. He died in a police cell of brain injuries, naked, 24 days after his arrest. A magistrate delivered the three-minute verdict that no one could be found criminally responsible. Jimmy Kruger, then Minister of Justice, declared that Biko's death "leaves me cold." Many others, however, were left in a blazing fury of rage. The murder set off a barrage of condemnation and marked...
...jury trial was, in Jennifer's view, a "massacre." "It was like a movie," she says. "They butchered him on the stand." Found guilty of theft--despite the fact that both the ideas and notebooks were his--Taborsky was given a year's suspended sentence, a year under house arrest and 15 years' probation. And, the judge ordained, he was forbidden to use or profit from his notes or his invention...
...also described the wide variety of racially motivated social injustices she has experienced and witnessed, including the mass killings of blacks, the false accusation of murder against her husband, and her own unlawful arrest...
...meet these demands, Simpson has liquidated almost everything he owned before his arrest in June 1994: condominiums in New York City and California; property in Mexico; his 50% interest in a string of HoneyBaked Ham franchises; even his Ferrari Mondial and the infamous Ford Bronco. What he hasn't sold outright he has mortgaged to the hilt: he borrowed $3 million against his Rockingham home and used a Warhol serigraph of himself as security for a loan he took from his children's estate. He has tapped his homeowner's insurance to pay for his defense in the civil trial...
...confrontation with police to date started on Sunday, when a standoff with riot police on a bridge degenerated into a widespread beating of protesters that continued through the night. Police chased students through the streets, into stores and university buildings, beating them and dragging some of them away for arrest. At least 80 were reported injured. Casualties ranged from pro-democratic leader Vesna Pesic to cameramen from APTV, Reuters Television and CNN. Draskovic said he was chased by police and shots were fired at his car as he fled. "Tonight, a crime was committed against the people of Belgrade," said...