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Presentation On Police Violence

The document discusses police violence in the United States, highlighting various forms of police misconduct, including brutality and discrimination against minorities. It cites statistics on police killings and notable cases like Rodney King and George Floyd, which sparked widespread protests. The conclusion emphasizes the need for reforms, such as body cameras and civilian oversight, to address and reduce police violence.

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Presentation On Police Violence

The document discusses police violence in the United States, highlighting various forms of police misconduct, including brutality and discrimination against minorities. It cites statistics on police killings and notable cases like Rodney King and George Floyd, which sparked widespread protests. The conclusion emphasizes the need for reforms, such as body cameras and civilian oversight, to address and reduce police violence.

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Police violence, or police brutality, characterizes violent action.

conducted by police officers, in the exercise of their functions, towards others


persons outside the framework defined by law. Under the term police violence,
we group together various acts of police abuse such as surveillance abuse,
fraudulent arrest, intimidation, political repression, sexual abuse.

We talk about police misconduct in the most serious cases, particularly in the
case leading to the death of the abused person.

2: Characteristic of the role of the police in the United States

In the United States, a federal state, there are a large number of forces of
police distinct according to the territorial level (federal, state, county or
municipality) or the domain (investigation, drugs, protection, explosives,
intervention, transports, borders.

The most important thing to remember is the following: the powers


publics, including the police, are required to do everything possible to
respect and protect the right to life.

Under international law, police officers must not use force.


murderous only as a last resort, in other words when it is
absolutely necessary to protect oneself or others from a
imminent threat of death or serious injury, and provided that the
other solutions are insufficient.

Situation in the United States

2007 Report: In a report dating from October 2007, the department of


The Justice Department of the United States reports 1,095 people killed by the police.
from 2003 to 2005, an average of 365 per year. During the
during the same period, 380 police officers were killed, including 221 accidentally
Return to the Rodney King affair:
Rodney King, born April 2, 1965, in Sacramento and died June 17, 2012, in Rialto,
is an African American, known for having been a victim of police brutality on the 3rd
March 1991 by police officers from Los Angeles at the end of a chase.

Discrimination against African Americans and Hispanics:


First of all, we know that a black man is 8.7 times more likely to be
arrested for minor offenses and has 2.5 times more chance of dying
(for men) and 1.5 times more likely to die in women during
of a police stop of a white man. This represents 60%
Black men die due to police violence. But these numbers do not
are not reliable because part of the deaths of African Americans are either not
declared to be attributed to another cause. Police violence against blacks
increased exponentially by 30% in 2020.
Violence occurs more in the southeastern states, these states are rather
conservatives which may explain a higher rate of police violence
important

Example: George Floyd


George Floyd, whose full name is George Perry Floyd Jr., was born on October 14
1973 in Fayetteville, North Carolina, is an African American, died
during his arrest by the police on May 25, 2020, in Minneapolis, in the state
in Minnesota, during which a police officer, Derek Chauvin, held him handcuffed
and in a ventral hold with his knee on his neck for more than eight
minutes. The images of his arrest and the news of his death lead to a
wave of protests in the United States and in other countries around the world.

Because of this, there have been protest movements to counter the


unjust police violence.

Conclusion
In the face of all these acts of injustice, the protesters united with the politicians.
proposed solutions to counter these violences such as placing
cameras on police officers in service to know their activities in the field and the
civil examination commissions which consist of limiting the use of weapons for
police officers.

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