Abuse Of Police Power

This paper is about how the police and military worldwide use their ability of power to abuse laws, oppress people and control the population. I will integrate the scenario in the middle east, the Arab Revolution along with black societies struggle and continuous oppression in the United States of America. This paper incorporates the readings of Black Against Empire and Revolutions and Revolutionary Movements , to explain the actions these authority groups take and the effects that come after. The Black Panther Party formed from a few men who were fed up with the police and how they brutalized and took advantage of the black community like they weren’t citizens. We’re shown how much of a real problem the police were to the black community

In many instances throughout these nations, the police and military were used to oppress the populations or guide the country in one direction. In Egypt this was very true, the police and national guard were used to stop a movement for change and protesting the leadership. The Egyptian Revolution started following the Tunisia revolution after the citizens saw how successful it was. In Egypt, the police were used to oppress great rally of people where the police killed 4 people and arrested hundreds. The movement however lived on and people kept faith defying the

In Egypt, they enacted a long-time law called their “emergency law”, this law allowed the government and authorities to suspend citizens’ constitutional rights in the public. I believe that the government of Egypt did this, to immediately reduce the threat and legitimacy of the revolutionary movement. This law restricted things like censor media and limit public gathering and demonstrations. This law also allowed the authorities to hold people in jail without any charges and look into the personal communications. This is similar to the situation in California with the Black Panther Party and the Police there. The Black Panthers began standing up for themselves and other blacks around the United States. Police had already been abusing their powers and authority, Black Panther members became educated on the law and challenged the police. The original members of the Black Panther Party Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, and Bobby Hutton decided to police the police force. They would voluntarily “antagonize” the police into a situation, to challenge the legitimacy of the polices actions and power. They would abide by all the laws hoping the police would still do something to them “illegally”, for the public to see or to use self-defense against the police. The police kept getting embarrassed over and over again, and a large rally took