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...cops after a routine traffic stop. Although one of the officers was recorded shoving Jackson's head through a plate-glass window, a jury could not reach a decision as to whether this was an excessive use of force. During the 1970s, 16 blacks died as a result of choke holds administered by Los Angeles police. Police chief Daryl Gates defended the use of the procedure at the time, suggesting that blacks had some anatomical weakness that made them especially vulnerable to that method of restraint...
...area's most prominent blacks had virtually no ability to restore calm. Johnnie Cochran, a prominent lawyer who helped outlaw use of the choke hold, said, "It makes no sense, because they are destroying their own communities. I don't think there's anyone who can talk to these people now. They will only understand the measure of force, the National Guard or the police being assertive...
...dreams are made of. Early in his routine, Petrenko flailed his arms wildly to save a triple combination, then barely held on to a triple flip. From there he lost conviction, succumbing to his chronic habit of sagging in the final minutes. Wylie, by contrast, resisted his tendency to choke in major competitions and finally delivered a performance that enabled the judges to reward his brilliant artistry. A relative old man at 27, the gracious Harvard graduate capped his amateur career with the evening's only standing ovation...
...Choke"? The Crimson needs a collective Heimlich maneuver...
...practice, this means stupidities and double talk that would choke the honest among us. They are worth quoting from Army, the official mouthpiece of this crap. In Panama, they report, many PDF [Panamanian Defense Force] soldiers were "discarding their uniforms in an attempt to meld into the general population...