Police brutality is the use of any force exceeding that reasonably necessary to accomplish a lawful police purpose According to ( “Police Brutality). There has been some serious human rights violated by Officers in the world today. Mainly focusing on African Americans and their perspective, there has been severe beatings, fatal chokings and shootings and none have been justified. Most cases do not get reported or are left to be forgotten. Families all throughout the united states suffer each and every day because of the unexplainable amount of excessive police force. That much brutality contradicts police service and its expectations giving the community a lack of trust towards them.
There were only fourteen days in 2017 where the cops …show more content…
Not a single cop stopped hitting and attacking as Rodney screamed for his life. There were 27 cops on the scene and they lied and said that he did not resist and he fought back however, the seven minute video says otherwise. They planted drugs on Rodney and lied in the interview about ever laying a hand on him. The LAPD was very disrespectful and racist. Their chief has said a plethora of disrespectful things about the black people and their community. Another case was when Federico Pereira was killed in february of 1990. The cops handcuffed his hand behind his back and tied his legs together. They then proceeded to beat him and sit on him while he was on the ground. Yanking his head repeatedly from the ground nonstop they then choked him to death. When witnesses on the scene tried to defend Federico they were threatened. The “ Pigs” said that the man was cocaine and was out of control when he did not resist at all. On the website below there are multiple cases where children between the ages of 12 and 16 for holding a “ replica of a gun” or a” pellet gun.” When Tyrie King was fatally shot by a police officer in Columbus, Ohio. In this situation, Tyrie was shot for no reason because the police only found out he had a BB gun after the fact. They shot him multiple times and he later passed away at 8pm on …show more content…
He was being approached by cops and he was reportedly getting arrested because of taxes. Cops told the reporters he was in a fighting position. Although when you watch the video, the 395 pound victim was only standing with his hands back and up in the air. When five cops tried to attack him and he tried to resist he wa put in a chokehold. Within seconds Eric was gasping for air and he repeatedly told the cops he could not breathe as his face was smashed into the ground and eyewitnesses even made known that he was in distress. In this situation the cops are wrong are there behalf. Eric Garner was a very large man but there was no need for five officers to handle him in that manner. Michael Brown was just 18 years old when he was fatally shot. Based off of his appearance you can clearly see that he was young. The officer should have reasoned with him being that he was only 18 years old. He was reportedly armed yet no witnesses saw a weapon of some sort. All policemen and their cars have cameras on them. In Baltimore policemen were caught pulling over African americans and searching their cars for over 30 min. Suddenly their cameras “ stop working” and it goes out but only 2 minutes later an officer was found squatting down in front of the driver seat and supposedly found a bag of pills which was not their when first searched. On this website is shows many facts and statistics about cops stopping and