Police Brutality Essay, Research Paper

There continue to be frequent disturbing reports of unjustified police shootings, with

officers firing on unarmed suspects fleeing non-violent crime scenes, during traffic stops,

at the end of pursuits or in other questionable circumstances. In some cases suspects have

been hit with multiple police gunfire. In most of the cases reported, the victims were

African American or other minorities, and some were children.

The above cases appear to grossly violate international standards which provide that force

should be proportionate to the threat faced – and that firearms should be used only in self

defence or the defence of others against an imminent threat of death or serious injury and

“only when less extreme measures are insufficient to achieve these objectives”

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There continue to be frequent disturbing reports of unjustified police shootings, with

officers firing on unarmed suspects fleeing non-violent crime scenes, during traffic stops,

at the end of pursuits or in other questionable circumstances. In some cases suspects have

been hit with multiple police gunfire. In most of the cases reported, the victims were

African American or other minorities, and some were children.

The above cases appear to grossly violate international standards which provide that force

should be proportionate to the threat faced – and that firearms should be used only in self

defence or the defence of others against an imminent threat of death or serious injury and

“only when less extreme measures are insufficient to achieve these objectives”