Sentence examples for systemic brutality from inspiring English sources

Amnesty for criminals may seem difficult to justify, but this type of transitional justice has been invaluable to countries like South Africa seeking to heal the wounds of systemic brutality and oppression.

Throughout the memoir, Slahi draws inspiration from small acts of kindness amid the systemic brutality.

Prominent voices from both the right and the left are questioning systemic brutality against animals here in the States.

His death, they argue, is the result of the systemic brutality by NYPD officers against low-income New Yorkers, particularly blacks and Latinos.

Talbot, raised in San Francisco's diverse Hunters Point neighborhood, dances around the politics of race and systemic brutality to deliver a story that he says delivered as many laughs at the Apollo as at SXSW.

"What Commissioner Bratton has shown is that he's unable to control his own police officers, and he has never done anything to address the systemic brutality that keeps happening for low-income, predominantly people of color in New York City," Josmar Trujillo told the crowd.

Nevertheless, accounts from former prisoners at other military detention sites -- including smaller holding centers in Iraq, the main Afghan prison at Bagram Air Base near Kabul, and Guantánamo itself -- suggest there has been systemic, gratuitous brutality against people who in many cases are not clearly guilty of any crimes.

Systemic police brutality directed at blacks has galvanized the American public, causing people to take to the streets in protest and to social media with displays of solidarity.

They feel they have been carrying the load without much help from organizations they had hoped would have spoken out more strongly and would have provided long-term support to challenge systemic police brutality.

"Neither the problem nor the solution to systemic police brutality is simply new training, as Commissioner Bratton has indicated and we heard after the deaths of our sons and so many other New Yorkers," Constance Malcolm, the mother of Ramarley Graham, and Iris Baez, the mother of Anthony Baez, said in a joint statement Thursday.

Mr. Wilcox said the department had systemic problems of brutality and cover-ups.