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Collected Item: “Hyderabad Checkpoint Enforcement”

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Hyderabad Checkpoint Enforcement

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

video sent from a colleague in India

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Violators of the curfew in Hyderabad, India, are struck with lathi sticks when stopped by police at a traffic checkpoint. The people who recorded the video are laughing because lockdown violators were warned not to venture outside after curfew.

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India, curfew, lockdown, violate, police, beat

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Unknown

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2020-03-27
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