3% of the 2,541 reports of police misconduct were only police brutality, and 13% of the police brutality reports were fatalities (Freeman, 2011). Police brutality, also known as police use of excessive force, is different from reasonable force. Police brutality, an unnecessary force, is a civil right violation, where police officers beat people up and abuse victims' human rights. But in a society based on orders of law, police officers are given the authority to use force, a necessary force, in precise situations, and this force is reasonable force. Excessive use of force is starting to increase year after year. Starting from mid 2010, statistics show that out of 5, 986 reports of police brutality, 382 resulted in death, and the majority of these individuals have been African Americans (Thomas, n.d. para.1). This means that police brutality excessively target the minority groups in a society such as African Americans. Also, police use excessive force on Arab people in other countries, because other countries think that all Arabs are terrorists, and this is why Arabs are searched very well before entering any country. And sometimes, Arabs are not even allowed to enter other countries, just because they are coming from Arab countries. This indicates that police officers are stereotyping minority groups; like in the UK, France and Germany, police stop African Americans to search them, because the latter are assumed to be outlawed immigrants (Commission on human rights, 2003, p.2). Some policemen are using excessive force like punching, beating, shooting, and even killing people, who present no threat to other. Officers have no reason to beat a person to death with sprays, electric shocks, guns, batons and other lethal weapons, especially when the person is handcuffed and laid on the ground. Citizens trust police men and believe that the latter are the ones that stand by peoples' side and protect them, but officers betray the citizens by using unnecessary excessive force with them.
