Word: victimization
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Americans should think about at what point people have the right to be self-destructive. Alcohol damages the liver and kills many people every year when intoxicated adults get into their automobiles. Will Budweiser be the next victim of the courts? Obesity may represent America's most pressing health issue, but does that mean that fast food restaurants deserve to be the next target for the litigious among...
RUDY GIULIANI Disses unarmed victim of cop shooting. Will NYers develop "zero tolerance" for his antics...
...were convicted of illegally shipping nearly 1,000 pistols to a Muslim group in New York City, but they have never obtained enough evidence to charge him. A year later, Al-Amin was accused of shooting a 23-year-old Atlanta man, but the charges were dropped after the victim claimed police had pressured him into falsely naming Al-Amin as the shooter. Such brushes with the law strike Al-Amin and his supporters as harassment. Says his lawyer, J.L. Chestnut: "He's been fighting the system since he was 16 years old, and now the system is trying...
...heads had prevailed, wouldn't Diallo still be alive today? As trained professionals, police officers must be able to assess situations, not simply use deadly force against anything threatening. The verdict in the Diallo case at a minimum should have been "guilty of reckless endangerment." Now, anyone could fall victim to impetuous and rash policing. BEVERLY JACKSON Laurel...
...Reward offered for the capture of an Orlando, Fla., kidnapping suspect. The victim, a 10-year-old girl, was returned unharmed...