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...riot areas in force, the killing pattern changed. Nine blacks were either shot by the officers or struck by gunfire from unidentified sources. Allen Mills, 33, was shot five times by police at a roadblock in the riot zone. The officers claimed Mills had threatened them with a knife. Blacks at the scene contended that Mills was unarmed and had been shot repeatedly in the back. Police claimed that Elijah Aaron had first shot at them, then was killed in the return fire by the officers. They said they shot Abram H. Phillips, 21, because he was armed and running...
...divorce that apparently triggered a 1979 outburst by former Marine Charles Pettibone. He went to the Santa Rosa office of Congressman Don H. Clausen and was distressed to find him out. He held a knife at a security guard's neck for two hours until FBI officers got him to surrender. Attorney Steinberg got Pettibone acquitted on the argument that a sense of helplessness had catapulted him back to his Viet Nam days, rendering him effectively "unconscious...
...Picassos, it becomes clear why his friends thought he had gone crazy, why the painter André Derain actually predicted that Picasso would hang himself behind the big picture. The painting is freighted with aggression, carefully wrought. The nudes are cut into segments, as though the brush were a butcher knife. Their look, eyes glaring from African-mask faces, is accusatory, not inviting. Even the melon in the still life looks like a weapon. The space between the figures is flattened, like a crumpled box: it was in this play of code between solid and void (one apparently as "tactile...
...Chic magazine photo shows a woman stabbing herself in the vagina with a butcher knife and cutting her breasts with scissors...
Both rape and porn are based on a view of women as sex-machines. Images of women as pieces of meat, ready for the butcher's knife, are common. Women's bodies are shown not whole, but in pieces--chopped up, without heads, brains, personalities...