Associated Press
| Jun 13, 2013
Turkey's prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan ordered Thursday that "lawbreakers" be removed from Istanbul's Taksim Square within 24 hours, while lashing out at the European Parliament over a resolution condemning excessive force by Turkish police.
Russia Today
| Jun 4, 2013
Turkey is currently being rocked by its biggest wave of anti-government protests in years. At least two people have been killed and thousands injured from clashes with police since the protests began on Friday. Videos and images have emerged on so...
Euronews
| Jun 4, 2013
Turkey's deputy prime minister has apologized for brutal police treatment of the original organizers of a protest to save a park in Istanbul. The cop crackdown was followed by days of violent protests that have unleashed a wave of animosity towar...
Democracy Now!
| Jun 3, 2013
Turkey is seeing its biggest wave of protests against the ruling government in many years. Tens of thousands of people rallied across the country Sunday for a third consecutive day of mass demonstrations. The unrest erupted last week when thousand...
Euronews
| Mar 1, 2013
Eight South African police officers have been arrested on suspicion of murder following the death of a taxi driver who was dragged behind a police vehicle. Mido Macia from Mozambique died from head injuries and internal bleeding after being arres...
Human Rights Channel
| Feb 28, 2013
Warning: Disturbing Content. This video captures an incident that has sparked anti-police brutality protests in South Africa -- and a murder probe. As witnesses protest, officers in Daveyton can be seen tying an immigrant taxi driver from Mozambiq...
eNews Channel Africa
| Feb 28, 2013
Warning: Disturbing Content. South African law enforcement watchdog the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) is investigating the death of a Mozambican man at the hands of police in Daveyton, east of Johannesburg. The probe follows...
Euronews
| Feb 20, 2013
Bulgaria's government has resigned amid growing public violence over high energy prices and a low standard of living. Prime Minister Boiko Borisov had tried to calm nationwide street protests. He had sacked his finance minister and promised to c...
Al Jazeera English
| Feb 13, 2013
The volatile political crisis in Bangladesh has once again boiled over into violence on the streets of the capital, Dhaka. Several people belonging to country's largest Islamic party, Jamaat-e-Islami, were injured as they clashed with police dema...
Telegraph.co.uk
| Nov 14, 2012
There are violent clashes between police and demonstrators in Spain and Italy, as workers go on strike across Europe to protest against spending cuts they say have deepened the economic crisis.
— Apr 8 at 06:12 am
...At the end of the riot, 43 people were dead, 1189 injured and over 7000 were arrested” (Gane-McCallan). There isn’t one single thing that causes...
— Jun 7 at 07:00 am
...created by police brutality: - Striking, kicking or otherwise injuring a person who has already been restrained. - Use of restraining techniques...
— May 13 at 12:01 pm
...- Gauteng Police Commissioner Mzandile Petros on Monday condemned the latest alleged police brutality incident involving a Kempton Park man who ...
Police brutality is the abuse of authority by the unwarranted infliction of excessive force by personnel involved in various aspects of law enforcement while in performance of their official duties. The term is also applied to abuses by corrections personnel in municipal, state and federal penal facilities including military prisons.
While the term police brutality is usually applied in the context of causing physical harm, it may also involve psychological harm through the use of intimidation tactics beyond the scope of officially sanctioned police procedure. In the past those who engaged in police brutality may have acted with the implicit approval of the local legal system, e.g. during the Civil Rights era. In the modern era individuals who engage in cases of police brutality may do so with the tacit approval of their superiors or they may be rogue officers; in either case they may perpetrate their actions under color of law, and more often than not engage in a subsequent cover-up of their illegal activity.
The word "brutality" has several meanings; the sense used here was first used in 1633. The first known use of the term "police brutality" was in the New York Times in 1893, describing a police officer's beating of a civilian.
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