Ethical Police Use Of Force

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In my opinion, after watching all 5 videos I was able to come to the conclusion on whether or not force was excessive and if the officers’ behavior was ethical. For the first video it was a routine traffic stop that escalated into the suspect being teased. Overall, I felt like in this specific situation the police officers’ use of force was warranted, because the suspect wouldn't comply with the officer request for her to get out the car. The 2 circumstance that I found questionable was when the suspect was tased by the officer while on the ground and also I found it strange that one of the officer would make such a snarky comment to the suspect saying that he has been personally tased before and it is not that bad. I believe that pain is subjective and I feel like the …show more content…
Yet, I did observe some verbal banter back in forth between the kids and officer. The officer took away one of the kid’s skateboard in order to intimidate the kids to stop calling him “dude”. The main reasons why I believe this situation is unethical is, because of the officer two statements that stood out to me in the video as abusive. When he told the kid he would smack him if he keep being disrespectful and if you go around doing this stuff someone will kill you. Moreover, for the third video I felt like in that specific situation the police officer use of force was unwarranted, because the suspect wasn't causing any form of resistance and the officer pull out his gun prematurely. The two main reason why I believe the police officer behavior was unethical, because he yelled at the lady and shoved her to the ground with excessive use of force. Furthermore, in the fourth video I felt like in this particular situation the police officers’ use of force was warranted, because the suspect was actively resisting

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