Government-backed thugs routinely attack dissidents, and recent protests over a toxic spill that killed vast numbers of fish led to beatings and arrests by the police.
Steven Sater's book and lyrics are based on Frank Wedekind's much banned and censored play of 1891, in which the suppression of teenage erotic desire leads to beatings, abortion and suicide.
Baby serves as Farouk's bagman and Tyrone's accomplice, activities that lead to arrests, beatings, even murder.
The kids witnessed their father's drinking and drug use lead to escalated beatings that would, at times, end with their mother being unconscious".
Soon S.N.C.C. reinforcements arrive and racial tensions lead to murder, demonstrations, beatings and jailings.
A disillusioned idealist (Danny Glover) tries to deal with his angry son (Vicellous Reon Shannon), who allies himself with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee as tensions lead to murder, demonstrations, beatings and jailings.
Ultimately, she says, it was the theocracy that led to her beatings that also helped her survive them.
But in 1941, as the Nazis arrive, the community's deep-seated anti-Semitism leads to rape, beatings, torture and eventually the rounding-up of the Jewish population into a barn which is burned to the ground.
Mr. Colby writes of a mid-19th-century malady called "Combustivism," whereby "men and women alike would forget who they were, what they did for a living, who their spouses and children were and would more often than not set out on violent rampages that led to arson, beatings and property damage".
But more seriously, Tosh's brutally blunt, wickedly satirical rants, as well as his ganja habits, led to innumerable beatings by the police, more than once approaching the point of death – a tragic resistance fighter's accolade that Tosh shares with Nigeria's postcolonial liberation musician Fela Anikulapo-Kuti.
