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police violence

police violence noun: police brutality.

Noun

police violence (uncountable)

  1. police brutality
    • 19 December 2014, Paul M Farber in The Guardian Online, Die-ins demand that we bear witness to black people's fears that they'll be next
      Convened largely by black youth activists, well-attended marches against police violence in dozens of US cities are convincing displays of growing dissent – but...

Questions about police violence

What does police violence mean?
Police violence means police brutality.
What part of speech is police violence?
Police violence is a noun.

Words near police violence in the dictionary

  1. police up
  2. police van
  3. police vans
  4. police village
  5. police villages
  6. police violence
  7. police wagon
  8. police wagons
  9. police work
  10. policeable
  11. policeboat

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