What causes police brutality‚ and why are minority citizens the primary victims? The U.S. History Encyclopedia defines police brutality as the use of any force exceeding that reasonably necessary to accomplish a lawful police purpose. Most brutality began during strikes in the late 1800’s‚ early 1900’s. The strikes involved African Americans speaking out for their rights as citizens of the United States. Police brutality is one of the seven forms of police misconduct‚ the others being: false arrest
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believes in…… or in his case sitting down. A conflict that has come to my attention is police brutality. Police brutality is the use of any force exceeding that reasonably necessary to accomplish a lawful police purpose. Therefore i will be explaining the conflict going on about police brutality in the world today. Though what goes on with the police may seem wrong you never know the other side of the story. Police brutality happens for many reasons‚ one reason is because many departments don’t provide adequate
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Police brutality has become a hot topic in several states around the country. Several grass root movements have begun to pop up. The majority of people view police officers as “heroes” ; However then realize that‚ that isn’t always the case. Sadly‚ all police action is being questioned‚ officers are also questioning each other. Several police officers have a mentality that makes them believe that they’re above the law and feel a sense of authority over society. They demand respect from civilians
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The way that the police uses excessive force with any minority class men is considered brutality disregarding their ethnicity or economic status. Police brutality has a dramatic change on how the community looks at the law enforcers. Nobody will look at policemen the same way after all the accusations and prove that shows how they are abusive of the power granted to them by the government. Every human‚ regardless of ethnicity‚ the color of skin‚ being a minority‚ and having legal status in the country
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People today has always take their rights seriously when it comes to police brutality. The definition of police brutality is police use of excessive or unnecessary forced by when dealing with civilians. The excessive force is used to handle a situation that is needed but sometimes can be an unnecessary to solve the situation. Police officers uses nerve gas‚ batons‚ pepper spray and guns to or physically intimidate the civilians. But the question is that should it be necessary every time or for different
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that I chose the topic on police brutality was that it is a serious problem that is still happening nowadays. Police brutality has been happening for many years and still people have not done anything to help stop police brutality. Some police officers take advantage of their power which can lead to injuries and even death at times. Police brutality is a serious problem because many people of diverse ethnicities have gone through a type of police brutality. Police brutality can be considered many different
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Police brutality is the use of excessive and/or unnecessary force by police when dealing with civilians. Excessive use of force means a force well beyond what would be necessary in order to handle a situation. Many people think that police brutality goes on and beyond with certain ages‚ races‚ or genders. I think of this as a human injustice because not everyone is treated equally or fairly when dealing with the law enforcement. Some people have seen shows and/or have watched the news where there
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has shown that police are more likely to abuse blacks rather than whites and this is caused by racial profiling. But through the history of police brutality‚ police brutality was first used after a police officer was described beating a civilian in 1633. Police brutality is the abuse of force and it is usually through physical. But there are other ways to abuse which are verbally and sometimes psychologically and this is done by a federal or state authorities which are the police officers. The history
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Police brutality is a horrible situation that has seemed to stay consistant throughout the years. But at the same time it is also very confusing. A lot of times it is minorities that are involved in police brutality which is a sad situation. It is sad because it creates the question of whether it is becuase of their color‚ or because they deserve it. Many think that these situations are cruel and racist. On March 3‚ 1991‚ Rodney King was involved in a high speed chase in Los Angeles where he was
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While police brutality is only recently taking the media by storm‚ it has been a large scale issue in the United States for over one hundred years leading to various riots‚ petitions‚ and presidential panels. In 1938 at the time of a great riot regarding police brutality the National Negro Congress stated “Our lives‚ our homes‚ our liberties each day are made less secure because of unrestrained and unpunished police brutality” in their petition against police brutality (Contemporary Police Brutality
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