Against this backdrop, the police are searching for a balance between the public's constitutional right to demonstrate and the need to keep the streets open, the trains running and the convention operating without interruption.
Istanbul, the tale of a father identifying his murdered son, becomes particularly poignant against the recurring backdrop of police brutality and a city with one of the country's highest homicide rates.
With historic lows in killings as a backdrop, Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck on Tuesday ordered dozens of extra officers be deployed to South L.A. neighborhoods that saw surges in shootings and homicides beginning last weekend and spilling into the early part of the week.
It remains to be seen if all of this grittiness, for want of a better word, will make the game compelling, adding layers of shade to Jack's story, or feel crass against a real-world backdrop of police officers making wrong decisions in the heat of the moment.
The Black Lives Matter movement arose, in a proximate sense, against the backdrop of targeted police brutality.
Almereyda's update of Cymbeline's plot of warring royals and family conflicts is set against the backdrop of corrupt police and biker gangs.
Sex and soccer provided the backdrop of a disturbing police investigation.
As she spoke into the camera against a backdrop of firetrucks and police cars, WCBS's Jennifer McLogan was phoning in what she could see.
His interviews, and warnings of the EU's imminent collapse, are often conducted against a backdrop of footage of police suppressing anti-austerity riots.
