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Police Brutality

 

            
            
             Police brutality has unfortunately become too common in our.
             The question remains, However, as to.
             how much force is justified and in what situations. Certainly .
             force is sometimes appropriate, that is why today's law .
             enforcement carry batons and guns. A charge of brutality should .
             not be taken in the terms of guilt. Society wants police to go .
             out and identify criminal activity and stop it, either before it .
             occurs, or certainly after it occurs, and determine who the .
             criminals are, who committed the particular crime, and put them .
             in jail. The written rule is clear, police are to use no more .
             force than is necessary to apprehend a suspect. The unwritten .
             rule is "Teach them a lesson". Brutality is a conscious and .
             heinous act committed by law enforcement who usually take great .
             pains to disclose their misconduct. In an age notable for its .
             high fear of crime, juries who understand that police face risky .
             and protective work, are unlikely to convict a police officer .
             without hard evidence. .
             For instance the beating of Rodney King, which occurred .
             March 2, 1992, in Pacoima, California was filmed by George .
             Holiday, a 33 year old rugby player and general manager of Rescue .
             Rooter a national plumbing company went to bed early and was .
             awaken at 12:50 am by screeching rubber, he pulled the window .
             shade aside and was blasted by the powerful spotlight, a Hyundai .
             surrounded by a half a dozen, LAPD police cars (Skolnick 1-2). .
             George Holiday's first reactions was to grab a camcorder, the .
             video Holiday shot showed a black man down on hands and knees .
             struggling on the ground impelled by wires from a tazer gun. .
             Rising and falling while being beaten blow after blow-dozens of .
             blows, 56 in all, about the head, neck, back, kidneys, ankles, .
             legs , and feet by two LAPD police officers. Wielding there two .
             foot black metal truncheons. Also visible a third officer who was .
             stomping King, and about ten other police officers watching the .


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