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Graham V. Connor And The Rodney King Case

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To begin with, excessive is the uncontested right of a police officer. The use of force to a police officer is necessary to apprehend or subdue a suspect of a committed crime. When a police officer use of force exceeds the necessary use of force of a particular situation to complete their lawful purpose. In particular, use force for self-defense, for example, a suspect tried to assault one of the police officers in a crime scene, so the other police officer teasers the suspect to protect his or her fellow officer. However, if the police officer uses his or her right to force for unlawful or self-defense purpose, it is then deemed unethical and illegal. Also, there are many incidents involving officers who use their right to use force that exceeded …show more content…

Connor and the Rodney King case. Moreover, in Graham v. Connor, Graham needed orange juice for his diabetic episode, but the line was too big and busy so Graham ran out of the store. Police officers stopped him because they thought he was somehow involved in a crime. Graham friend was trying to tell the officers that he was diabetic, Graham now in handcuffs and in the police car, jumped out of the car. He passed out, but the police officers grabbed his unconscious body and slammed him on the hood of the car. After the incident, Graham had a broken foot, cuts, and an injured shoulder. An investigation occurred and found Graham innocent. The officers then dropped him at his house (Pollock, 2013.page 157-158). Furthermore, Rodney King was a passing a police car that leads to a car chase. When the Police caught up with King. Indeed, all police officers beat King with their batons 56 times, thus King had 11 skull fractures, causing brain damage, broken ankle, and missing teeth. An innocent bystander captured all the use of excessive force from the police officers inflicting on King (Pollock, 2013.page 160). The recordings of these excessive force cases have shown the public about the unethical use of excessive …show more content…

According to the National Institute of Justice, there are 6.6 complaints per 100 police officers on the excessive force. However, 8 percent of these claims had real concrete evidence to back up their story to take disciplinary action against the police officer ("Police Use Of Force | National Institute Of Justice"). This is the most controversial issue that is happening in America right now. We see a lot of police officers use excessive force on innocent civilians too much. It happens everywhere in the United States, it will show up on the news, local news, newspapers and most importantly in social media. Where people report and re-share of police brutality incidents. The major negative effects of excessive force are the distrust towards the police department and the united states government. Social media in today's era have such a powerful impact on the United States government( McGovern, A., & Milivojevic, S. (2018, March 19). Social media and crime: The good, the bad and the ugly ). The good thing about social media police can communicate in real time about incidents and events via Facebook, twitter etc. The bad thing about social media gave criminal a platform to stalk potential victims. Also, " Activity on Facebook and Twitter can pose a threat to prosecutions and the right to a fair trial through practices such as sharing photos of the accused before an indictment, creation of hate groups, or jurors

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