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Recent Examples of unarmed
Upon being captured, the prisoners were shot after being made to lie on the ground unarmed, said the report.
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George Monastiriakos, Newsweek, 30 Dec. 2024
When the Biden administration denied a request from Mali’s military president for an American transponder for an unarmed plane, the leader complained to the Russian foreign minister and was promptly invited to Moscow, according to Mr. Pham.
—Ruth MacLean, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2024
In this teen drama, Carpenter plays a prep school classmate of Black student Starr (Amandla Stenberg), who witnesses a cop shoot and kill her unarmed friend after a routine traffic stop.
—Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 23 Dec. 2024
The nearly two-week delay between Neely’s death and Penny’s arrest saw civil rights protesters take to the city’s streets and subway tracks to protest the unaccounted-for killing of a poor and unarmed Black man in public.
—Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 9 Dec. 2024
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George Monastiriakos, Newsweek, 30 Dec. 2024
When the Biden administration denied a request from Mali’s military president for an American transponder for an unarmed plane, the leader complained to the Russian foreign minister and was promptly invited to Moscow, according to Mr. Pham.
—Ruth MacLean, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2024
In this teen drama, Carpenter plays a prep school classmate of Black student Starr (Amandla Stenberg), who witnesses a cop shoot and kill her unarmed friend after a routine traffic stop.
—Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 23 Dec. 2024
The nearly two-week delay between Neely’s death and Penny’s arrest saw civil rights protesters take to the city’s streets and subway tracks to protest the unaccounted-for killing of a poor and unarmed Black man in public.
—Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 9 Dec. 2024
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“Unarmed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unarmed. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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