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This list compiles incidents alleged or proved to be due to police brutality that attracted significant media or historical attention. Many cases are alleged to be of brutality; some cases are more than allegations, with official reports concluding that a crime was committed by police, with some criminal convictions for offences such as grievous bodily harm, planting evidence and wrongful arrest.
This is a list of law enforcement officers convicted for an on-duty killing in the United States.The listing documents the date the incident resulting in conviction occurred, the date the officer(s) was convicted, the name of the officer(s), and a brief description of the original occurrence making no implications regarding wrongdoing or justification on the part of the person killed or ...
Henry A. Wallace Police Crime Public Database; List of cases of police brutality; List of countries with annual rates and counts for killings by law enforcement officers; List of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty in the United States; List of law enforcement officers convicted for an on-duty killing in the United States
Police brutality is an issue even today, and its victims have a hard time proving their case: according to the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, an NGO standing up against injustice by the authorities, only 4% of the victims make out a case against the police (while 69% do so when the victim is a police officer). In average, only 3-6 percent of ...
FILE – A protester holds a sign demanding justice for Amir Locke at a rally on Saturday, Feb. 5, 2022, in Minneapolis. The parents of Amir Locke, who was killed by a Minneapolis police officer ...
Excessive force reports made up more than 23 percent of all police misconduct reports in 2010, according to the Cato Institute's National Police Misconduct Reporting Project. Of those excessive ...
University of Texas at El Paso police responded to reports of a naked man who ran after a female's car. When police arrived, "the naked man was combative and they had to use a taser to subdue him and take him into custody". The man became "unconscious and unresponsive", and was later pronounced dead. [8] 2020-06-27 Aloysius Larue Keaton (58) Black
Take one of the most discussed recent police brutality cases -- the Chicago Police shooting of LaQuan McDonald, a black teenager killed while acting erratically and holding a knife. Prosecutors ...