Incidents

The primary collection for the Brutality DB

Incidents are the core of the Brutality DB. Each incident represents one alleged incident of police brutality, misconduct, or inappropriate use of force. Each incident contains one or more pieces of evidence, usually tweets or videos, and may include one or more identified officers from the videos.

Name Description Location Amount of Evidence Incident time
TGD 166 One set of cops kettle protestors toward another set of cops, so the second set of cops can shoot them San Diego, CA, USA 2
TGD 171 no video, but the woman is an employee of Child Protective Services, shot as she was leaving work San Diego, CA, USA 2
TGD 197 peaceful protest – downright festive really – interrupted by tear gas and bullets San Diego, CA, USA 2
TGD 311 casual roadside abduction by SDPD in unmarked vans Department response on 311 above out of San Diego. I love "we alw... San Diego, CA, USA 4
TGD 84 man in light-colored jacket backs away from a police vehicle onto the sidewalk, pulls out his mobile phone to record.... San Francisco, CA, USA 2
TGD 22 hard to figure out what's going on here – a clearly-amped officer shouts "SHUT UP, BITCH!" to a protestor, then somet... San Jose, CA, USA 8
TGD 189 cop casually hitting a guy with his motorcycle and sending him to asphalt as 3 more cops pile on San Jose, CA, USA 2
TGD 258 from Facebook, it looks like SJPD is using CTS Super Sock rounds? I'm told these rounds are also being used in Austin... San Jose, CA, USA 3
TGD 335 community activist Derrick Sanderlin helped train San Jose PD on police bias. He escorted a guy to safety when it loo... San Jose, CA, USA 2
TGD 400 police shooting rounds at close range into unarmed peaceful protestors outside City Hall. [@venomwithinher] San Jose, CA, USA 1
TGD 401 SJPD shoots a protestor while he's on the ground San Jose, CA, USA 2
TGD 154 police open fire on peaceful protestors with their hands raised. The juxtaposition is striking... Yougn people: "THI... San Luis Obispo, CA, USA 2
TGD 297 not a police brutality story, but instead a solid column from @SkinnerPm on how ludicrously stupid our policing strat... Savannah, VA, USA 1
TGD 32 police pepper-spray a 10-year-old child for sport More on 32 in Seattle WA. You'll see more of this in the days ahea... Seattle, WA, USA 3
TGD 41 police arrest a protestor using the same knee-on-neck technique used to murder #GeorgeFloyd Another protestor yells "... Seattle, WA, USA 2
TGD 88 SPD bike cop crashes into the back of a peaceful unarmed marcher, so other police swarm to arrest the marcher for som... Seattle, WA, USA 2
TGD 89 same technique as 88 above – bike cop deliberately tries to "pass" where there's clearly not enough room, so he can t... Seattle, WA, USA 1
TGD 90 as protestors shout about the guy getting arrested after a bike cop deliberately crashed in to him, SPD starts indisc... Seattle, WA, USA 2
TGD 91 police form a line to force protestors into a tight group against a wall ("kettling"), so they can then repeatedly pe... Seattle, WA, USA 1
TGD 101 police appear to be trying to break the glass window of whatever business this is at 2nd and Pine? Seattle, WA, USA 2
TGD 138 police shoot a teargas canister at a reporter – live on-air as she's reporting full video of 138; available in Googl... Seattle, WA, USA 3
TGD 140 overhead view of Seattle PD pepper-spraying protestors, then indiscriminately firing flash bang grenades deep into th... Seattle, WA, USA 4
TGD 165 not a brutality video, but instead showing the scale of the protestors. *Years* of data – decades likely – have repe... Seattle, WA, USA 2
TGD 190 another night of indiscriminate flash-bang and teargas use on peaceful protestors Another angle on 190 above Police... Seattle, WA, USA 6
TGD 220 deploying a busload of riot troops at a peaceful protest Reminder: it's the police who have been escalating the violence Seattle, WA, USA 2