‘Intensifying’ into violence

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“Protestors in California,” tweeted ABC News about an incident in Oakland, “set fire to a courthouse, damaged a police station and assaulted officers, after a peaceful demonstration intensified.”

If you’d presented your ninth-grade teacher with that sentence in your weekly writing assignment, she might have taken out her red pen and asked you, “How does a peaceful demonstration intensify?”

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