Minority group members have been a target of police brutality in the past, most memorably the beating of Rodney G. King, which led to devastating riots in 1992.
The target of the brutality was simple: Innocence.
James Reed, a local performer who sang "hands up don't shoot" to a band of trumpets, saxophones, and drums in the below video, told VICE News he was "inspired by desire to not live as a target of police brutality".
I continued to naïvely cling to the hope that it was a gas explosion, a subway accident, anything other than what it increasingly seemed to be: an act of brutality targeted at the highest density of both people and cameras.
Women are the main target of the regime's brutality.
"ISIL has repeatedly targeted the weak and defenseless in acts of brutality and cowardice that are beyond description, bringing about unfathomable suffering to all Iraqis regardless of their gender, age, religion, faith or ethnicity".
The arrest of the protesters came as no surprise to Mwangi but he was alarmed at the level of brutality shown to the young targets.
For Trump anger and the thirst for recognition (thymos) are instrumentalized in the service of brutality and violence, with the usual targets of the GOP being in the forefront: African Americans, Latinos, women, Muslims.
When confronted with the accusation that black Americans have been unfair targets of excessive police brutality, the official demonstrated his command of logic by stating: "The riots in Baltimore are a byproduct of income inequality -- a phenomenon observed along racial lines--and income inequality is a byproduct of capitalism, and capitalism is the foundation of our great democracy.
Any level of brutality seemed acceptable to the GOP lawmakers, because of Sisi's target: the Egyptian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, which had run Egypt's first democratically elected government for just over a year. .
