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 47 police deliberately target a CBS crew, shooting the sound engineer with a rubber bullet "They're sighting us in, dude... Minneapolis, MN, USA 2
TGD 64 in the tweet above this one, a reporter notes that all of the tires for all the cars in a parking lot have been slash... Minneapolis, MN, USA 2
TGD 74 police responding to a medical emergency – a tanker truck deliberately running over protestors – nonetheless stop to ... Minneapolis, MN, USA 2
TGD 208 people are trying to clean up the street So a police SUV speeds through trying to run them over for sport Portland, OR, USA 2
TGD 79 police deliberately shoot at a German news crew, live on-air Notice the "PRESS" in all-caps on both sides of the repo... Minneapolis, MN, USA 2
TGD 250 first-person view as police deliberately target press with teargas and pepper spray, even as several of them have ves... Minneapolis, MN, USA 2
TGD 256 Minneapolis, MN: police illegally pull over a Washington Post reporter in a traffic stop, because earlier they knocke... Minneapolis, MN, USA 1
TGD 312 back in the first day or two there was a video of a reporter explaining how she was teargassed and attacked by police... Minneapolis, MN, USA 2
TGD 381 part of a lengthy thread on cops shooting journalists everywhere; thread starts here https://twitter.com/AliVelshi/st... Minneapolis, MN, USA 1
TGD 387 police destroying private property without due process, in violation of the Fourth / Fifth / Fourteenth Amendments Minneapolis, MN, USA 1
TGD 393 I'll believe this when votes get taken, but a veto-proof majority of the City Council has pledged to dismantle the po... Minneapolis, MN, USA 1
TGD 422 remember 387, where MPD cops slashed people's car tires in a K-Mart parking lot? They now admit they did it in a seco... Minneapolis, MN, USA 1
TGD 239 it's not just American police getting the itch to indiscriminately teargas our own citizens Montreal, Quebec Canada, USA 1
TGD 75 Officers throw tear gas and a flashbang to disperses crowd near the MTSU sign. All of these protestors did was yell. ... Murfreesboro, TN, USA 2
TGD 287 police falsely claim over PA System that a tornado warning was issued by NWS There was no tornado warning Lawlessness Nashville, TN, USA 1
TGD 109 Nationwide: a compilation of at least 100 known attacks by police on reporters, compiled by @NiemanLab by @N_Waters89 Nationwide, USA 2
TGD 193 mashup of several videos at once, locations are at the bottom of each panel. The Seattle one (top left) is 190 above. Nationwide, USA 1
TGD 245 firing on peaceful protestors with their hands raised – and making sure to take a shot at the people recording Even ... New Orleans, LA, USA 5
TGD 2.1 Updates on 2 and 48 above, both out of New York City, NY.: "NYPD suspends 2 officers seen in widely disseminated pro... New York City, NY, USA 1
TGD 20 NYPD officer (assuming a sergeant or lieutenant since he's in a white shirt?) shoving an unarmed protestor for sport New York City, NY, USA 1
TGD 25 a pair of NYPD officers in SUVs decide to do a Tiananmen Square – quickly running over several unarmed protestors for... New York City, NY, USA 3
TGD 36 no video for this one, but NYPD arrested a reporter to stop him from covering the protests Video of 36 above in New ... New York City, NY, USA 3
TGD 37 another without video, but NYPD arrested another reported and kept him in jail for 6 hours New York City, NY, USA 2
TGD 48 an NYPD officer *removes the mask* from a peaceful protestor, so he could then mace him in the face Updates on 2 and... New York City, NY, USA 3
TGD 49 NYPD (Lt? Sgt? White shirt) pins down a medic with his knee, as another officer tries to push back anyone attempting ... New York City, NY, USA 2