POLICE BRUTALITY. Police brutality is the use of any force exceeding that reasonably necessary to accomplish a lawful police purpose.

Black lives matter:

https://twitter.com/search?q=black+lives+matter&ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Esearch

“I can’t breathe” has evolved into “We cant breathe”:

http://www.thenation.com/article/many-struggling-breathe-amid-rampant-injustice/

Statistics:

• https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/fatal-police-shootings-in-2015-approaching-400-nationwide/2015/05/30/d322256a-058e-11e5-a428-c984eb077d4e_story.html
• Police Brutality, Misconduct and Shootings.” Police Brutality, Misconduct and Shooting. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Nov. 2015.

Speaks about many cases of police misconduct that have occurred only in 2015 alone. It is important to note that about half the victims were white, half minority. But the demographics shifted sharply among the unarmed victims, two-thirds of whom were black or Hispanic. Overall, blacks were killed at three times the rate of whites or other minorities when adjusting by the population of the census tracts where the shootings occurred.

• http://www.policemisconduct.net/putting-police-misconduct-statistics-in-perspective/
• “Police Brutality, Misconduct and Shootings.” Police Brutality, Misconduct and Shooting. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Nov. 2015.

Website tries to find a correlation between the police, and the murder rate per 100,000 civilians. The website also expands further on the probability of being of being a victim of police misconduct. It is important to note that the study they conducted occurred many years ago in 2009. Site contains multiple statistics and databases of police civilian interactions.

Estimated Police Misconduct Rate (PMR) in 2009 = 834.69 per 100k
Average career PMR = 20,867.25 per 100k
In other words, 1 in 4.7 police officers may be implicated in an act of misconduct over the course of their career.

• http://policestatedaily.com/category/police-state-enforcement/
• “Police State Daily Documenting the Police State DAILY!” Police State Daily. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Nov. 2015.

Site contains many alleged police brutality case however site may not be 100% credible due to small size. This site is constatnly being updated with new stories about police brutality.