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 273 montage showing police shepherding protests to an area where they could be boxed in and shot repeatedly for sport wit... Dallas, TX, USA 1
TGD 280 cop shoots a protestor with a rubber bullet, then celebrates with a song See if you recognize it Dallas, TX, USA 1
TGD 351 Delco police union doing casual mafia things, like threatening to "destroy" local businesses who don't deep throat th... Delaware County, PA, USA 1
TGD 11 police in Denver CO are shooting reporters with paintballs for sport Denver, CO, USA 2
TGD 13 intentionally pepper-spraying anyone recording police brutality, outside the state's capitol grounds Denver, CO, USA 2
TGD 33 police caught on camera pushing a reporter into an open fire Denver, CO, USA 2
TGD 56 police – leaving – do a parting goodbye shot with a pepperball to stop an unarmed protestor from recording Denver, CO, USA 2
TGD 59 non-protestors stuck in traffic get hit by a stray shot from police. The driver gets out, yells at police that there'... Denver, CO, USA 2
TGD 115 casual conversation between a protestor and riot cop; : "Can I ask you what's going to happen at 8? Sir?"; : "What's ... Denver, CO, USA 2
TGD 117 DPD no video for this one. DPD conducting an investigation after one of its officers posts an admission on Instagram ... Denver, CO, USA 2
TGD 147 Colorado State Patrol shoot a Denver reporter (who didn't realize at the time that the camera was still recording): ... Denver, CO, USA 2
TGD 157 y'all have seen me tag @elisabeth a number of times over the years, who's been working with the city on police use of... Denver, CO, USA 2
TGD 253 state legislature is going to take up a bill abolishing state-level qualified immunity, and an R Sheriff promptly los... Denver, CO, USA 3
TGD 332 a federal District Court Judge has entered an injunction prohibiting certain Denver police practices (screenshots in ... Denver, CO, USA 1
TGD 366 Denver's mayor is either a moron, totally disconnected from reality, or both. Again: urban pacification issues have b... Denver, CO, USA 1
TGD 396 police shoot a guy at point-blank range for sport. [Reddit (@2020police) @ https://reddit.com/r/2020PoliceBrutality/c... Denver, CO, USA 1
TGD 402 effects of being hit in the face with a "less lethal" round. CW: severe gore. [TikTok @ https://tiktok.com/@yazzdazzz... Denver, CO, USA 1
TGD 403 police rip a sign out of the hands of a peaceful protestor, then pepper-spray them in the face for sport. [TikTok @ h... Denver, CO, USA 1
TGD 423 person is walking down the street minding their own business – not even protesting! – and a DPD cop bathes them in pe... Denver, CO, USA 1
TGD 112 police teargas and arrest a Des Moines Register reporter so she'll stop tweeting updates Last tweet from reports in ... Des Moines, IA, USA 4
TGD 149 Just like #112 above, police terrorize and pepper-spray a journalist so she'll stop reporting Des Moines, IA, USA 2
TGD 71 army of NYPD officers rush and attack literally everyone street-level view of #71 New York City, NY, USA 4
TGD 200 police use pepper-spray in an elevator on apartment residents trying to go home, including on one woman carrying a baby Des Moines, IA, USA 2
TGD 306 police conduct a violent raid on a LGBT bar. More details in the tweet following this one. Also notice the theme: p... Des Moines, IA, USA 2
TGD 314 white people in a car shout "Black Lives Don't Matter," so Des Moines PD think the appropriate response is to shoot a... Des Moines, IA, USA 2