Police Brutality Outline

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Introduction
Hook/Attention Grabber: What is police brutality?
Police brutality is when a law enforcement agent uses unnecessary and excessive force against on a person.
Police brutality is not just shootings or deaths.
Police brutality is when the person that the police criminalize is wrongfully treated.
That could mean being tazed, shot, beaten, or choked.
Even if he or she had done nothing wrong.
Overview Statement: Police brutality is has been around America for a very, very long time.
Supporting detail: The first major instance of police brutality that came into the news was The Trayvon Martin Case.
Trayvon Martin was murdered by George Zimmerman.
Though this man was not a police officer, He was still law enforcement.
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Supporting detail: At this time more police officers would be arrested for murder.
Police Misconduct.net says that 31 % police officers charged with police brutality were convicted in the year 2009, 3 years before the Trayvon martin case,
Conclusion: Police brutality rates were lower before the Trayvon Martin case and police brutality charges were taken more seriously than after the Trayvon Martin case.

Paragraph Topic: Police Brutality cases in 2012 and above
First Point: Police Brutality increased after the Trayvon Martin Case in 2012 because the precedent that George Zimmerman set.
Supporting detail: “A precedent is an earlier event or action that is regarded as an example or guide to be considered in subsequent similar circumstances.’
This definition is from Merriam-Webster.
Supporting detail: This event set a precedent because George Zimmerman was not even a Law enforcement officer.
He was just a neighborhood watchman; he had no standing or authority to do what he did.
He got off by pleading self-defense, when Trayvon Martin did nothing wrong.
He set a precedent for all law enforcement officers who have the power and standing to use that against the American people

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