Police Brutality in Virginia
By: Danilo and JT
Police Brutality Can Manifest in Several Ways:
-Threats
-Intimidation
-Acts of physical violence
-High speed chases
-Shooting
-Unjustifiable force
-False arrests
-Police misconduct
-Civil rights violations
We Need to Stop This
Thousands of cases of police brutality come in every year. Only about 20 to 50 of them are actually looked at. People are being killed and beaten by people who are supposed to protect them.
Cases of Police Brutality:
Brutality Reaches Suburbs
A Petersburg family claims that police went too far.
Debra Fisher was wrestling police officers while her son was catching it all on video. The police wrestled Debra for no reason.VA Hospital Violence
A veteran man of 65 years of age was waiting in a hospital for service and decided to go to the one close by VA hospital where he would get better service. When trying to leave, he was attacked by a hospital police officer which caused him to have an artery failure, have a stroke, and die.
Abuse of Power
In 2005, a young man named Patrick Lee was tasered 19 times for simply behaving a strangely. He died from the extreme wounds. The court later put the officers on trial; the jury decided they did not use excessive force.
Ways to Stop it:
You could make cops carry around small microphones that record everything a cop says. People could only listen to these recordings if the cop is charged with police brutality. Since every state police department only has a limited number of police in action or patrolling, there should be a surveillance center in each station were police could be monitored with their cameras and microphones.