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...example, officers left themselves vulnerable to friendly-fire accidents.) But criminal-justice professor and former cop Gene O'Donnell says it's "ludicrous" to expect this kind of arrest to be orderly. "I've seen many tapes about which the media is screaming, 'Look at this! It's brutal!' And I see it and I say, 'No, it's police work.' Police work is brutal, and nobody wants to own up to that." Then again, says Seymore, "I have not seen an incident such as this in Philadelphia that did not involve a person of color." For now, perhaps...
...King, as some have suggested. For one thing, King was pursued for speeding. Jones was allegedly driving a stolen car, ramming bystanders and possibly firing at police. "There are more dissimilarities than similarities," says Laurie Levenson, a Loyola Law School professor. "With Rodney King, it was deliberate, coordinated and brutal." The Philadelphia cops, by contrast, "look disorganized and scared. It's sort of like everybody piling on in the schoolyard...
...into negotiations with the IMF because a number of the would-be recipient countries are already at their debt ceiling. The Clinton White House is fond of win-win scenarios, in which there's a happy confluence between corporations making a profit and doing the right thing. But the brutal reality is there's no good-for-business solution to the AIDS crisis in Africa. Some 10 million Africans will die of AIDS in the next five years alone if it's left to the market to determine their fate, because there's simply no profit to be made...
Theodore J. Kaczynski '62, who was arrested in 1996 after killing three and injuring 16 in a string of mail bombings spread over 20 years, participated in an intensive, sometimes brutal, three-year psychological study while a Harvard undergraduate...
...acres, it's the largest prison in the U.S., with the lowest-paid guards, few of whom have graduated from high school. It's a place that Collier's magazine once called "the worst prison in America," where in 1951, in an effort to protest the brutal conditions, 31 prisoners sliced their Achilles tendons so they couldn't be sent to work...