Police brutality is the excessive and unwarranted use of force by law enforcement. It is an extreme form of police misconduct or violence and is a civil rights violation. It also refers to a situation where officers exercise undue or excessive force against a person.
Tiffany Crutcher, on the left, the twin of Terence Crutcher, who was killed by a Tulsa police officer, marches with the Rev. Al Sharpton, center, and the attorney Ben Crump, right, in Tulsa,Okla., on Sept. 27, 2016.
Maria Lowrie has watched videos of her son’s death in police custody over and over again. Sometimes she watches the images from an officer’s body camera. Sometimes she watches a bystander’s recording. She has watched them so many times that she can pinpoint the moment when her son, Ernie Serrano, took his final breath, she says. “I don’t wish this for any mother, for any human being, to go through that. Something has got to be done so it doesn’t happen as often as it’s happening,” the Los Angeles woman said. She doesn’t believe that her son, if he had been White, would have died Dec. 15 when sheriff’s deputies were called to a Riverside County grocery store for a disturbance. Serrano, a 33-year-old Mexican American, was at a Stater Bros. market picking up snacks that night when the sheriff’s office received a report about a man — later identified as Serrano — wandering in and out of the store. Another 911 call reported him tussling with a security guard. Video from a bystander shows sheriff’s deputies beating Serrano with batons and using a Taser on him before wrestling him facedown onto a checkout counter.
Tyre Nichols protester hurls firework at LAPD cruiser – while squad car is smashed up in NYC: Thousands of Antifa activists march on Memphis, Portland and Seattle amid call for violence
- Antifa has issued a terrifying call to arms as America braces for a night of violence
- A shocking poster obtained by DailyMail.com shows the group calling upon demonstrators to gather across New York City and ‘Burn It All Down’
- Riots are expected to ignite across the nation following the release of bodycam footage from the killing of Tyre Nichols, 29, by five Memphis police officers
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