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police brutality
Sign in to saveAlso known as police violence, excessive force, undue force, excessive use of force, unreasonable force
use of excessive force by a police officer
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- delict
- Subclass of
- police misconduct
- Image
- Wattsriots-policearrest-loc.jpg
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- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Human rights
- topic's main category
- Category:Police brutality
- Commons category
- Police brutality
- hashtag
- PoliceBrutality
- does not have characteristic
- justification
- handled, mitigated, or managed by
- police body camera
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Encyclopedic overview
A silhouette showing a police officer striking a person, symbolising police brutality.
Concepts
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “police brutality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.