Since the recent infamous Grandma tasering, I have found many incidents of similar brutality by police. The following links are VIDEOS of such events.
Girl shoes cop - Cop beats girl
Then they came for me....and there was noone...
Police Overreact with a Taser Gun - AGAIN!
Ambulance driver brutalized by police: cops did it right!
Grandma tasered update - Police: we did it right!
Grandma tasered - Unedited video from dash cam
Ambulance driver brutalized by police
SWAT bust down wrong door
I had wondered how long it would take to compile a relatively complete list of all the incidences. Luckily I found that someone has done this already and presented it neatly in an interactive map.
I spent hours examining incidences from the map - it was horrifying and enlightening to see
how widespread abuse of civil rights is in the USA - and how many innocent people have been killed or irreparably damaged.Take a look if you dare.
An interactive map of botched SWAT and paramilitary police raids, released in conjunction with the Cato policy paper "Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids," by Radley Balko.
Related:
Medals for Botched SWAT Raid Officers
Police SWAT teams: Overused?
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