The Times also cited chilling examples where the presence of a loaded concealed weapon helped escalate an angry encounter into tragedy.
K. Lee Johnson, a 28-year-old musician and producer for Big East Entertainment in Harlem, has had an angry encounter with the special units.
A picture caption on Monday with an article about the trial of the former presidential candidate John Edwards referred incorrectly to a witness who testified that an angry encounter involving Mr. Edwards's wife, Elizabeth, was "all a little unnerving".
It also fits with research that suggests a person who routinely carries a firearm in a vehicle is more likely to trigger an angry encounter than to keep the peace.
Meghan Bigelow, 41, was taking her three sons to the dentist for a routine visit when she somehow became involved in an angry encounter with another driver in a black Toyota Corolla, according to the Denver Post and the Westminster, Colo., police.
Researchers at Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health, building on previous work in Arizona, found that people who often traveled in a vehicle with firearms were more likely to make an obscene gesture or follow another driver after an angry encounter in traffic.
Referee Craig Thomson sent off Celtic defender Virgil van Dijk and United's Paul Paton in an early angry encounter.
Legislators from both main parties have been forced to quit, some in the face of angry public encounters with constituents whose sense of betrayal is personal.
Out of the entire set of respondents, only about 7 or 8percentt said that they were actually angry about encountering censorship.
He refused to participate in the debates, which were shown on little-watched cable channels, and he postponed a call-in show, perhaps because when he sent proxies to a town-hall-style meeting, they encountered angry constituents.
