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...Plainfield, N.J., 50 people demonstrated outside police headquarters, charging that a policeman beat Uriah Hannah, a 14-year-old black. Last Sunday Hannah and his friends were playing with a remote-controlled toy car on a sidewalk near his home. A motorist stopped short at the spot where the boys were playing, and a police cruiser ran into the rear of his car. Hannah's parents, whose older son allegedly committed suicide in police custody last year, charged that the officer jumped from his car, accused the teenager of obstructing traffic and at one point tried to choke...
...greater numbers every year since 1980. Though the number of officers killed nationally has fallen from 104 in 1980 to 66 in 1989, that is partly the result of wider use of bulletproof vests. "It used to be that arrested suspects got right into the patrol car," sighs Boston policeman John Meade, who heads the department's bureau of professional standards. "Now they put up a fight. Weapons suddenly turn up. Just like that, everything explodes...
...protesters fought back with trash cans, paving blocks ripped from the sidewalks and even furniture from open-air cafes. As the crowd swarmed toward the Serbian parliament building, a 17-year-old boy, Branivoje Milinovic, was killed by police gunfire; more than 100 other people were injured, and a policeman later died of head wounds. The federal army, commanded by a largely Serbian officer corps, deployed tanks and armored personnel carriers at Serbia's request, in what Croatian prime minister Josip Manolic called "an act against the constitution...
...order, where diverse nations are drawn together in common cause to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind: peace and security, freedom and the rule of law." But Bush's overall emphasis was on what British imperialists used to call "the white man's burden" -- America's mission as world policeman. His language and attitude sounded remarkably similar to the "pay any price, bear any burden" ethos that John Kennedy formulated in his Inaugural Address...
...think the U.S. should be playing the role of world policeman, fighting aggression wherever it occurs...