"I think violence should be violent," James told one interviewer.
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But he adamantly denied he would be violent toward them.
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That doesn't mean that you're necessarily going to be violent.
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But in those cases, the threats have tended to be violent.
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What if big data techniques could predict who might be violent?
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Feminists noted that porn can be violent, and can exploit performers.
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There will be tension, but it's not going to be violent.
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Uber said that drivers found to be violent are immediately suspended.
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I have never seen him be violent toward a person before.
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After his arrest, the suspect continued to be violent, police said.
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Trump himself has encouraged his supporters to be violent at times.
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So of course the ending would be violent, visually stunning, and loud.
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"We won't be violent," said one of the members of our group.
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But seriously, I don't think Grasshopper games necessarily need to be violent.
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Not to say that women can't be violent, because they certainly can.
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Something is coming very soon between them, and it will be violent but surprising.
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"The fighting between the two ethnic groups can be violent and unpredictable," he said.
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When drunk, he can be violent: recently he tried to strangle Nirmala, injuring her neck.
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I heard a member of a victim's family declare that Jordan will forever be violent.
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Because fighting sports will always be violent, but they do not have to be barbaric.
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"But football is violent, boxing is violent, politics can be violent, right?" the governor said.
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Research has shown that people with psychiatric disabilities are no more likely to be violent.
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He has bemoaned the lack of mental institutions to treat people who may be violent.
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The spokesperson says, "We are not here to be violent" ... insisting they just want justice.
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It was implied he'd be violent, maybe, but mainly we knew that Billy would be cool.
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They paid them $1,500 and they're on tape saying be violent, cause fights, do bad things.
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" Asked why officers led with a gun raised, Rodriguez explained that "burglaries can sometimes be violent.
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Needing a representative payee was never intended as a marker that a person might be violent.
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Waller-Bridge allowed women to be violent, terrifying sociopaths, but she also made them undeniably feminine.
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I am not violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence.
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They paid them $1500 and they're on tape saying be violent, cause fights, do bad things.
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"The tools are quite good at telling who's not going to be violent," Fazel told BuzzFeed News.
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"This plays with the border of what is unpleasant and threatening and may be violent," Goldstein said.
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Cedric the Entertainer has an important message to any would-be violent protesters out there -- just don't.
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People who are violent to partners or family members often go on to be violent to strangers.
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It's not that these games cause people to be violent; it's that the constant violence is monotonous.
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Bell tells PEOPLE that Henderson was known to be violent and should have been back in prison sooner.
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Jason thought it was to tell the girls about the divorce – he never expected she would be violent.
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Many politicians are calling for new rules to make it easier to deport immigrants thought to be violent.
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But Metzl said people with this disorder are even less likely to be violent than the general population.
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In tough-guy plays, movies and TV shows, nattily attired men often turn out to be violent sociopaths.
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And rugby is played wide open, on 45 percent larger fields, so speeds and collisions can be violent.
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"If we have reason to believe that somebody is going to be violent, we take precautions," he said.
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Such a standoff could be violent, and would trigger a rolling crisis whose shape would be impossible to predict.
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There's also the fact that no background check is perfect, and that women can also be violent or creepy.
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The scene is intended to be violent and disturbing, with Paul hitting Jeanne and penetrating her as she cries.
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"The impulse to be violent to someone you love, I think, is not a rare impulse," she says now.
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To be violent, in defiance of the state's monopoly on violence, is therefore to be a kind of traitor.
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They hired people — they paid them $1,500, and they're on tape saying be violent, cause fights, do bad things.
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Relationships between guards and prisoners are often romanticized in popular culture but the reality can be violent and abusive.
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Recessions aren't like thunderstorms, an inevitable, random event that may be violent but provide much-needed water to crops.
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Seb encouraged Jeff to be violent, and despite Jeff's massive overcorrection towards kindness his repressed anger undid his life's work.
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It's hard to tell people "don't be violent" when their community's being attacked, either in reality or in this movie.
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Joseph Cruz, 32, and Lionel Clah, 29 -- both considered to be violent -- escaped from the van about 8:30 p.m.
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I didn't have the traditional resource to collect on debts and I'm certainly not going to be violent about it.
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Part of the problem is that alcohol can make people more aggressive, which makes them more likely to be violent.
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" (Most Democrats support border security measures.) He misleadingly claimed Representative Maxine Waters, Democrat of California, "wants people to be violent.
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But Lloyd's production understood that the face of the patriarchy can be violent and funny and attractive all at once.
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The men had to be locked in guarded cabins because they had a tendency to be violent, a DFDS spokesman said.
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He encouraged his supporters to be violent against protesters at his rallies, many of whom were affiliated with Black Lives Matter.
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"Any rally that starts is going to be violent to the upside," said Art Hogan, chief market strategist at Wunderlich Securities.
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"We urge the community to be vigilant in the pursuit of justice, but not be violent toward one another," Barber said.
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I don't believe that Michael was prepared, that morning, to be violent; he had a gun, but refrained from using it.
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Many of them fall under the banner of Antifa — short for anti-fascist — and some are known to be violent themselves.
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There tend to be violent reactions one way or the other: The robots are taking all of your jobs, watch out!
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The stops could be violent, with cops throwing kids against walls or on the ground while shouting and cursing at them.
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The report details that they had been arguing all vacation and that Jackson had a tendency to be "violent" when drunk.
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Joseph Cruz, 32, and Lionel Clah, 29 -- both considered to be violent -- escaped from a prisoner transport van about 8:30 p.m.
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Clementine, by contrast, has barely left the lab, and has had little chance to do more than be violent and vaguely confused.
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"I remember when my mother would let my father be violent with her," the "Chun-Li" hitmaker began before a tense pause.
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We all had a meeting and we told the agent that he didn't seem to be violent but that he really needed help.
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Here's another not-secret: a lot of mainstream porn can be violent, misogynistic, and unrealistic, so talking about your boundaries beforehand is important.
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" But Kathy Lien, managing director of foreign exchange strategy at BK Asset Management, said the rebound from Friday's sell-off could be "violent.
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I'm interested in the kind of visual energy that could be violent, but also very sensual – an energy you could smell and hear.
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But a three-paragraph letter emailed to a newspaper might yield some clues, though it gave no indication the writer might be violent.
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Last weekend I went to Central Park and saw something peculiar: I've never known geese to be violent, but this goose was mad.
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They'll be violent, like the Salvadoran gang MS-13, or they'll introduce anti-democratic ideas into the pristine temple of American public discourse.
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In 1905, he was sent on a high stakes mission to China—a mission that turned out to be violent, fruitful, and tragic.
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This hashtag sheds light on the dangerous belief that abuse needs to be violent in order for it to be an urgent matter.
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This encompasses a number of policies, such as abusive behavior, hateful conduct, encouraging self-harm, and threats, including those that may be violent.
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The character Joker is not supposed to be portrayed as a good guy, so it is okay for him to be violent-minded.
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The idea that children of jihadists are somehow tainted and destined to be violent themselves is both fantastically wrong-minded and extremely common.
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And while people with ASPD oftentimes can be violent in the way they manifest their lack of empathy, this isn't a steadfast rule.
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During the season finale, I groaned when Shailene Woodley's Jane says she fears Ziggy might be violent because violence could be in his DNA.
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Just because he's a pimp and he can be violent, doesn't mean he can't have a soft spot, or care about literature or movies.
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Studies have shown children who grow up in homes where abuse occurs are more likely to be violent with their intimate partners as adults.
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Arns says they selected Dammeck's Unabomber cabin and manifesto selections to note how vigilantes can be violent, like Kaczynski, and non-violent, like Anonymous.
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You have to be tough, you have to be violent, you have to take care of yourself, because nobody will do it for you.
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The best of these films understand that the outcome of pitting people against one another can be violent, that it will invariably end badly.
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One of Bonds' friends, Elaine Lucas, told the Times that he had never shown himself to be violent, or to express anti-police sentiments.
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Some believe that Trump routinely violates the company's user rules, which forbid people from posting things that might be violent or graphic or abusive.
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From then on through to Irish independence in 1922, Britain ruled Ireland with a heavy hand, assuring that the final battles would be violent.
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Before I started wearing these African clothes, people would assume that I was a threat and that it was O.K. to be violent toward me.
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Although their protestors were encouraged not to be violent, many were trained in self-defense and held pastel painted, wooden shields, according to LA Times.
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If someone steals a bottle of vodka and you catch them, you can call the police—so you don't need to be violent, or intimidating.
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Though he may not be violent, Manafort's attempts to contact potential witnesses in his case and influence their testimony are indeed dangerous, the prosecutors argued.
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While the band's lyrics tend to be violent—and some Juggalos have engaged in criminal behavior—Juggalos as a whole are a non-violent bunch.
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He disputed that the torchlight rally was intended to be violent, saying the organizers had tried to keep it secret in advance and didn't invite counterprotesters.
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So, the reaction can be violent (as we saw in Europe) for a day or two — and less so for the other parts of the world.
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My mother would say "just drink some milk for your meal," I was hungry, so I wasn't happy, but I didn't find that to be "violent".
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It is exhausting to have to keep saying, for 15 months now, that no, unauthorized immigrants aren't more likely than US citizens to be violent criminals.
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No one is innately and permanently wired to be violent, operating only on the impulse of their mirror neurons when they see violence in front of them.
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OpenAI's communications director Jack Clark told Motherboard in an email that OpenAI doesn't condone violence, and it doesn't plan on training its AIs to be violent, either.
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Some people see these games and think they encourage violence, but most kids play them for enjoyment and aren't 'fueled' to be violent after they play them.
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You're supposed to be able to be violent sometimes and other times you're supposed to just be able to take your foot off the gas like that.
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As a 6 ft 175 pound teenager I have been looked at weirdly and people often think that I could be violent when it's the complete opposite.
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The difficulty is that policies intended to keep guns away from mentally ill people who are likely to be violent depend on clinicians' ability to accurately identify them.
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In July, it reported comments Lewis made on his show about how black people have an "entitlement mentality" and are more likely to be violent at social gatherings.
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A lawyer for the bodyguard said his client denied the allegations levelled against him and that the princess had never ordered him to be violent towards another person.
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Yes, people with serious mental illness — including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and severe depression — are on average two or three times more likely to be violent than the average person.
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That doesn't mean it won't be violent; I doubt Glenn and Abraham will be the last characters to meet their end by way of a barbed wire baseball bat.
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Men who were not out to their partners at the beginning, on the other hand, were more likely to, unfortunately, be violent—emotionally and physically—with their female partners.
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We need a way to treat them, while also recognizing that failure to treat the small share who might be violent can lead to tragedies like suicide and murder.
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" The company says this includes tweets that fell into a number of categories, including "abusive behavior, hateful conduct, encouraging self-harm, and threats, including those that may be violent.
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Apparently, this is now something artists have to think about: make art about Donald Trump, risk retaliation by a fanbase the Republican frontrunner has directly encouraged to be violent.
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To be violent, verbally or physically, is to take a slash-and-burn approach to waking up our collective consciousness, which makes for a difficult performance to participate in.
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He tells Rick to remember who he was in the past, calling back to the show's second season when Rick vowed not to be violent and laid down his gun.
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You'll recall ... Jennifer alleged Tim -- whose real name is James -- had a tendency to be violent and threatening during their relationship, and that he was allegedly stalking and harassing her.
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Batty (a replicant) can be violent and cruel, but his humor, his rage, and finally his compassion make him seem more alive, more human than anyone else in the film.
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A police spokeswoman told local media the police were sad about having to be violent, and did not want anyone to be injured, but they would strictly enforce the law.
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Those behaviors can include talking about harming yourself or others, writing about plans to be violent or threatening someone with violence and having the means to carry out those plans.
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Emily Noe, a neighbor of Mr. Dunn, told local reporters that she had known him for five years and that she had never known him to be violent or dangerous.
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They found that boys who witnessed their peers' abusive behaviors to girls were more likely to be violent toward others, in characteristics like bullying, youth violence, rape and dating abuse.
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Other studies have found children who are corporally punished also experience academic problems in schools and cognitive deficits and were more likely to be violent toward women later in life.
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In 1978, poor blacks aged twelve and over were only marginally more likely than affluent blacks to be violent crime victims — around forty-five and thirty-eight per 1000 individuals respectively.
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The border crossers an agent apprehends -- an average of two people per month in fiscal year 2016 -- are less likely to be violent than those drawing the attention of local police.
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It's in this context a new study out of the University of British Columbia has found men who take psychedelics are half as likely to be violent with a significant other.
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The greater majority of people with a mental illness will never be violent, research has found; in fact, people with mental illness are much more likely to be victims of violence.
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" She continued: "Yes, I know where this conversation is going in part, maybe not by you but by others, Wolf, who go by the same path, you know, will people be violent?
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"The challenge is, very angry, aggressive people often feel like they have the right to be violent," said Dr. Prudence Gourguechon, a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst with a residential treatment center in Chicago.
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A 2009 study of more than 8,000 people with schizophrenia found that those who did not abuse drugs or alcohol were only slightly more likely than the general population to be violent.
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There's a precedent for their attraction to men they perceive to be violent: Kirk and his athlete pals raped Camille when they were all in high school, but Katie married him anyway.
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Nyathi said in a statement earlier that law enforcement officers had recovered stones and catapults stashed in central Harare, which he said were part of evidence showing that Friday's demonstrations would be violent.
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He believed that the only way to get a member of the public physically engaged with any research or any topic was to be violent with them, either with music or with light.
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For years, the detention center held only police personnel being prosecuted for crimes, but in 2013, it began housing convicts and detainees suspected of terrorism who were believed to be violent and dangerous.
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While they may not voice it, boys oftentimes want the guidance about the confusing images they see in porn — which can be violent and not reflect accurate depictions of what sex is really like.
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And you can find examples of crowds being incredibly non-violent, not all crowds are violent and it's not even clear that crowds are more likely to be violent than people on their own.
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The toxic definition of manhood most of us have been given, regardless of race or culture or creed, teaches that to be human is to be violent, aggressive, self-centered, domineering and power-mad.
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" As I read these moving and cozily seductive passages, I thought of Flaubert's famous dictum about being "regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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But what is even more important is that there are forms of behavior that are not considered to be violent at one stage of history that need to be exposed as violent in another.
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"(Sanchez's government) will want to provoke us, they will be angry, they would like us to be violent, and they will not succeed," the nine prisoners said in a letter released by their political parties.
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Mr. Trump's allies suggest he has been treated unfairly by protesters who have gone to his rallies with the intention of stopping him from speaking and creating scenarios in which there could be violent clashes.
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Neo-Nazis didn't need accelerationism to be violent, but rather the doctrine's omnipresence in online far-right spaces makes it more likely that both groups and individuals are inspired to embrace terrorism as a tactic.
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At a Chicago performance of "Hamilton" on Saturday night, a protester interrupted the performance to shout profanities in support of Trump: the producers are concerned that the next Trump fan in the audience will be violent.
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It was about building up a world where people could believe they didn't have to be violent and wouldn't have to fight, and having all of that work torn away when circumstances pushed them to violence.
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Polling 450 adolescents across 15 countries, the report discovered that boys are socialized to embody dominance and physical strength, making them more inclined to be violent, suffer from substance abuse, and commit homicide later in life.
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They refuse to acknowledge that masses of boys and men have been programmed from birth on to believe that at some point they must be violent, whether psychologically or physically, to prove that they are men.
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"It's really unfortunate that some of the kids at @UConn felt the need to be violent and disruptive during a speech that focused on how the leftist media is turning Americans against each other," he wrote.
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It is not enough, then, to admit that politics may be violent or that it incorporates violence; politics is violence and nothing else — violence artfully emphasized, dressed up to conceal its nature, but violence always and everywhere.
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And yet, the claim that male heroism exposes the fallacy of "toxic masculinity"—the reality that many American men are socialized to be violent, homophobic, and misogynistic—also appeared at The American Spectator, Acculturated, and National Review.
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Democrats countered by questioning the claim that protestors were being paid to be violent, with one lawmaker calling it "fake news," a term Trump has used when describing news reports he has disagreed with or called incorrect.
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In states requiring judicial bypass, an underage pregnant person seeking an abortion without their parents' or guardians' approval (most commonly, they might fear their guardians will be violent or kick them out) has to go to court.
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According to court documents, Darboe said that while the kids in Fordham Heights were "not the best of influences," they would often be "attacked by the police officers" because the neighborhood was simply known to be violent.
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Yet various epidemiological studies over the past two decades show that the vast majority of people with severe mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or severe depression, are no more likely to be violent than anyone else.
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With additional gear such as stun grenades and enhanced Special Forces-type training, including sniper certification, the officers typically conduct high-risk operations targeting individuals who are known to be violent, many of them with extensive criminal records.
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"Extremists will continue to organize and to be violent even if they are deplatformed, but deplatforming makes it more difficult for them to accomplish their goals, whether violent or just organizational," Berger wrote in an email to VICE News.
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"For a president of the United States to encourage the police with a wink and a nod to be violent to citizens...shows that the president is not in any way committed to justice for all people," Murphy said.
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Implicit bias is a term used by social scientists to describe subtle associations or stereotypes that people make about groups, such as the idea that members of one race are more likely to be violent than those of another.
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So it's possible that the worst-case scenario would be if Trump claims in nonspecific ways that the system was rigged and that he was robbed and encourages people in ways to be violent—then it's a law and order challenge.
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I mean, he's in Pelican Bay and he's getting swastika tattoos and he's part of the Aryan Brotherhood and feeling like he has to be violent to be important in prison and just this whole kind of course of his life.
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Still, anywhere there are humans, there are bound to be violent acts and petty offenses, and that raises the question: How are criminal cases handled where sovereignty is a muddle and there are no permanent courts, prisons or police forces?
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And I believe that's because they've pivoted into satirical horror stories about the government, about inequality, and about racism that resonate more powerfully than shallower tales of people who just want a free pass to break stuff and be violent.
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Those hours can be like the marvellous ones that Augie and I spent together bee-watching, or they can be violent or mindless—and that's true whether those hours are occupied by apps or TV or books or just by talk.
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However, by 2008, poor blacks were far more likely to be violent crime victims — about seventy-five per 1000 — while affluent blacks were far less likely to be victims of violent crime — about twenty-three per 1000, according to Hochschild and Weaver.
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I don't think I guessed they would end up together and happy … Hopefully we can give hope to incels everywhere that they don't have to be violent and hateful," Cash says before, adding, "I'm not sure I want to invite the conversation around it.
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He was extradited to the U.S. in 2017, but before his trial began in November 2018, he filed a bunch of weird motions about his life behind bars -- including TV and prayers complaints -- and made a promise to not be violent with the jurors.
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"When you label a certain group as unwanted and you're using a trope of perverted people doing horrible things, you are opening the door to allowing a citizen the right to be violent towards another citizen," grad student Thatcher Combs sums it up perfectly.
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I would discipline them this way because I would not want to see my child grow up to be violent or even fear me, I would want my child to be comfortable talking to me and coming to me with any of their problems.
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For an incident to receive public attention, it typically has to be violent or extreme, like the case of Alice Ruggles, murdered by a stalker ex-boyfriend who broke into her house, or Molly McLaren, who was stabbed to death in her car by an ex-partner.
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William McCants, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution policy research group in Washington, said the idea of asking "the community" to get involved with stopping violent ideology implies Muslim communities are aware of who may be violent jihadists and have the responsibility to stop them.
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"I remember when my mother would let my father be violent with her and she always brings up the story as a little girl I would stand in front of my mother and go like this," Minaj said, demonstrating how she'd open her arms to shield her mother.
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Whether her act of rebellion was truly the first in the rioting is debatable, although she was "almost indubitably among the first to be violent," writes David Carter in "Stonewall," his 2004 book about the police raid on a New York gay bar that became a historic moment.
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"He turned it into their mob, that's their Democratic mob — but he's good at that, he is an expert at lying and deceiving and of course encouraging people in his own way to be violent or to be racists or to be separatist," she continued in the video.
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As long as men get labeled "pussies" for choosing not to fight, male emotion is sneered upon as weakness and masculinity itself is measured by the willingness to be violent, America may not always have a mass shooting problem, but it will always have a mass violence problem.
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But it would be an unforced error not to do all we can to keep guns out of the hands of people who are known to be violent — and it's a lot easier to predict violent behavior in general than the specific decision to commit a mass shooting.
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They may not be violent by nature but they are very willing to resort to violence, so, as described by one expert, this is the, sort of, early signs of anarchism, that they don't trust the establishment, they don't mind destroying things even if they don't know what destruction will bring.
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They may not be violent by nature but they are very willing to resort to violence, so, as described by one expert, this is the, sort of, early signs of anarchism, that they don't trust the establishment, they don't mind destroying things even if they don't know what destruction will bring.
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But while it's not wrong to worry about partisanship and rage, the synagogue shooting exposed a different American disease: There are a lot of racists out there waiting to be radicalized, and when they decide to be violent, permissive gun control laws make it easy for them to access weapons and murder people.
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I agree that sports in America can be too stressful and too competitive to where it can be violent at times, but I don't think there's too much we can do to change this because everyone wants to be the best and when someone else gets in the way then it gets bad.
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"Extremists will continue to organize and to be violent even if they are deplatformed" But JM Berger, a research fellow with VOX-Pol, a think tank dedicated to research on violent online political extremism, thinks there's merit in turning out the lights on the likes of Gab, even if the benefits are short-lived.
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And pregnant women as these soft, harmless things.... It's a theoretical premise, I'm not saying pregnant women would be violent, but that character exists more like a kind of experiment to see how far you can stretch people's sympathies for a character that was gonna do completely unexpected things and was an individual as well.
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Trump has long supported the so-called activist group, donating $10,000 to Project Veritas through the Trump Foundation in May 2015, and mentioning the group's videos in various speeches — including one he says proved that Clinton and Obama conspired to pay people $1,500 to "be violent, cause fights, do bad things" at Trump events.
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Besides acting on user complaints about copies, YouTube said on Friday that it was trying to identify copies with an automated tool that finds videos likely to be violent in nature based on a combination of the title and description of the video, the characteristics of the user uploading it and objects in the footage.
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It doesn't help people uncover the roots of their prejudices to know how to push back against the kind of systemic racism that doesn't scream "Paki," but silently assumes black teenagers will be violent, that veiled Muslim women are all timid victims of oppression, that all Syrian male refugees are potential rapists of white women.
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According to BuzzFeed News, Anglin also posted an article on his site titled "Jews Targeting Richard Spencer's Mother for Harassment and Extortion—TAKE ACTION!" in which the Anglin wrote, "If you're in the area, maybe you should stop by and tell her in person what you think of her actions," but added that the action shouldn't be violent.
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"More than poverty, natural resources, religion, or degree of democracy, violence against females is the most reliable predictor of whether a nation will be violent within itself or will use violence against another country -- and gender violence has become so great that for the first time, there are now fewer females on Earth than males," says Steinem.
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That support and the Gulf nation's tense relations with Saudi Arabia, which broke off diplomatic ties with Qatar in June over its backing for those would-be violent Saudi opponents, made it all but impossible for many Qataris to participate in this year's Hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca that every Muslim is expected to perform at least once in a lifetime.
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But videos games and virtual worlds are spaces that have always been marketed to us as the place where you could have an adventure, a place where you could act out some of your more taboo fantasies, whether it may be violent fantasies or sexualized fantasies or even just, like, impossible fantasies — like, I want to be an astronaut or I want to be a dragon slayer.
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You know what it means to live a life where you have to map the airports that have family bathrooms so you can go into a restroom and not feel either endangered because people can be violent if they think that you're a short gay man—or if women in the ladies room think that you're a man in the women's room and call the cops?
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The opening exchange of Skate Kitchen, out last Friday as the second feature from Crystal Moselle (of Sundance hit The Wolfpack, a documentary also set in New York's Lower East Side), captures a paradox at the heart of understanding the film: boys become "men" by making something happen—scoring a goal, getting laid, or committing some act of supposed valor (which often happens to be violent).
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Each defense lawyer offered closing arguments tailored to their client, but many of the themes were the same: that the First Amendment meant that people didn't have to leave a protest just because people around them were violent, that wearing all black or changing clothes later on wasn't proof of criminal intent, and that evidence that someone was at the protest wasn't the same as proof the person knew that people there would be violent.
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Before the Court heard the case, SCOTUSblog's Rory Little laid out in plain language what a decision to apply Johnson retroactively would mean: if Johnson applies retroactively, any defendant who has been sentenced to a lengthy federal term as a "fourtime loser," with one of his three prior convictions found to be "violent" only under the residual clause, could demand resentencing and a substantial reduction of his sentence – or even immediate release.
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