Nixon correctly understood this and dubbed his voters "the silent majority" in 1968 a year that is still unsurpassed for violent rhetoric and brutality in the village square.
"It's a barbaric, violent act of utter brutality," foreign minister Alain Juppè said.
In Italy the University of Rome was shut down for two weeks after violent demonstrations against police brutality.
By 1960, almost ninety per cent of households had televisions, which brought racial injustice, police brutality, and violent clashes between civil-rights activists and white Southern segregationists in Selma, Montgomery, and Birmingham into American living rooms.
Parts of Egypt are in turmoil following five days of rioting in which 52 people have been killed and more than 1,000 injured after protests against President Mohamed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood and police brutality turned violent.
Few movies of recent years, for example, have been more violent or have seemed more violent, for little overt brutality is shown than the two versions of "Funny Games," in which a pair of white devils in tennis gear invade and torment one well-to-do family after another, on the shores of a quiet lake.
Consequently, we should not be amazed by the brutality of violent acts of war.
Violent protests against police brutality have continued through their fourth day in the suburbs of Paris.
Problems began May 1 when a peaceful rally against police brutality turned violent as some protesters broke storefront windows and set fires.
While police brutality and violent crackdowns were a regular occurrence during the iron-fist rule of Ben Ali, many hoped democratic progress would help eradicate these practices.
