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Police Brutality In To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee

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In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee exemplifies the inequality and discriminatory treatment of the African Americans, as well as social classes, some of the same unfair treatment is still relevant today in the U.S., although it may not be as extreme. Harper Lee uses Tom Robinson to show police brutality from the way he was killed in jail, harshly. Atticus explains how Tom Robinson was killed; "Seventeen bullet holes in him. They didn't have to shoot him that much,"(Lee 315). Based on this evidence it is clear that the police shot Tom Robinson too many times and therefore they were very brutal, this demonstrates police brutality. Today, police brutality is similar as it was in the 1930's because it is still relevant in the U.S. In the U.S.
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