This time around, the event fell on the same day as Millions March, a massive protest against police brutality following the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner and the non-indictments of the officers that killed them.
Victorian England was shocked by the brutality of the massive police operation conducted under the pitiless eyes of a jeering crowd as a snow storm raged: out into the night they came to face the elements, emaciated, bright-eyed, singing, the remaining 20 men, 50 women, and 66 infants who now constituted the Children of God.
Brutal police force turned recent smaller protests in Brazil and Turkey into massive anti-government demonstrations much as the brutality of security forces on Tahrir Square two years ago strengthened protesters' resolve.
As news of the boy's death spread, the city's streets filled with mourners and protesters shouting anti-government slogans in a massive outpouring of grief and rage against police brutality and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's increasingly authoritarian government.
As news of his death spread, the city's streets filled with mourners and protesters shouting anti-government slogans in a massive outpouring of grief and rage against police brutality and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's increasingly authoritarian government.
The potential for trouble will stay around all weekend, but maybe outright brutality has been averted at the cost of massive police overtime.
But as long as we're only willing to discuss this massive, deeply entrenched issue in response to an atypical act of unfathomable brutality, maybe this is the best we can do.
In certain massive structures, like Antwerp's Central Station, he sees the power, arrogance and brutality bequeathed by the 19th century to the 20th.
The three defendants, former leaders of the Khmer Rouge, also listened as one of two prosecutors, Chea Leang, accused them of turning the country into "a massive slave camp producing an entire nation of prisoners living under a system of brutality that defies belief".
According to political columnist Art Harun, Bersih has thrown "a massive spanner in the [government] works" as increasingly informed activists point to numerous corruption scandals and police brutality as proof that government reform is necessary.
