History of Corruption

The skin of the man lying on the ground was dark by nature, his original pigmentation made darker still by the impact of repeated blows from four nightsticks. Four nightsticks held by four sets of hands with pigmentation of a lighter degree. A crowd of about a dozen or so stood by casually, their nightsticks idle as they watched the scene unfold, a scene that would end with a final score of nightsticks 56, victim 0 (Dempsey, 1994). …

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