Human Rights Watch, a New York-based group, documented these brutalities last year in a report, "Eastern Congo Ravaged".
Our struggle to protest these brutalities is still going on.
However, as the essays in Gender and Lynching: The Politics of Memory inform us, black girls and women were (and still are) also victims of these brutalities.
In the wake of a multitude of horrific Black deaths at the hands of police officers across the country, there is a sense of a generation that has grown weary of these atrocities, and, as such, has also grown weary of the suggestion of peaceful protest as a means of bringing these brutalities to an end.
We were going to make an example of these people". The brutality of this operation provoked the first major exodus from Morazán, as entire populations fled their villages for the refugee camps in Gotera, or for the camps over the border in Honduras.
Similarly, anyone who doubted the brutality these paragons of Kenyan society are capable of sinking to just needs to look at the obscene amount of wealth they have accumulated over the years they have been in power or close to it.
You might call these situations brutality cascades.
"All of these police brutality videos on my feed are making me sick," a black male friend of mine from college posted on Facebook recently, after Sandra Bland's disturbing encounter with officer Brian Encinia in Waller, Tex., was caught on camera.
For virtually anyone who has lived in Japan, none of these revelations the brutality, the cynicism, the pathetic impotence of good people who wish to change the system comes as the slightest surprise.
