Quotes About Police Brutality

#1. I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint.

Rodney King

#2. We're not anti-police ... we're anti-police brutality.

Al Sharpton

#3. Just because I was at an anti-police brutality protest, doesn't mean I'm anti-police. We want justice, but stop shooting unarmed people.

Quentin Tarantino

#4. Most pastors railing against gay marriage have never cried out on racism, any type of injustice or police brutality. They've never once made a statement about health care. Many of them are silent on community issues. They are very silent, but they have become the leaders of this particular movement.

Otis Moss III

#5. I don't want any injustice brought against the bullies. Bullies just don't know any better. Anyone who is crying about police brutality or victimization as an adult needs to stop it and realize the privileges we have in this country.

Ariel Pink

#6. I recognise Santangelo's dad, who saves police brutality for when he gets to his son.

Melina Marchetta

#7. What I'm trying to tell people is that police brutality in the 'hood is nothing new. And the thing is that whether this guy, the cop killer in my song, is real or not, believe it, there are people at that point.

Ice-T

#8. There is civil disobedience against the military machine, protest against police brutality directed especially at people of color.

Howard Zinn

#9. HATE, even if it's making money. is an underground movie, that's how it was made. It's a film about police brutality in the largest sense, it's about the whole of society and not just about the hood.

Mathieu Kassovitz

#10. As had been the case in the founding of Citizens Alert in 1965, the point that most linked gay politics to the struggles of other marginalized communities was that of state violence - in particular, police brutality.

Christina B. Hanhardt

#11. It was better walk with dignity than ride in shame. A lot of people in Cincinnati are saying, "Rather than have the continual problems of police brutality and economic disparity, I'm willing to make some sacrifices." And I think that they ought to be respected for doing that.

Al Sharpton

#12. When you've fallen from the sky, been abandoned by your friend, suffered police brutality, metamorphosed into a goat, lost your work as well as your wife, learned the power of hatred and regained human shape, what is there left to do but, as you would no doubt phrase it, demand your rights?

Salman Rushdie

#13. If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center.

Tupac Shakur

#14. There should be a class on sex
education, a real sex-education class.
There should be a class on police brutality. There should be a class on apartheid. There should be a class
on why people are hungry. But there are not. There are classes on gym. Physical education. Let's learn volleyball.

Tupac Shakur

#15. An act of violence against any innocent person eludes moral justification, disgraces the millions of Americans and people throughout the world who have united in peaceful protest against police brutality, and dishonors our proud inheritance of nonviolent resistance.

Benjamin Crump

#16. Unreasonable force is illegal. The force used has to be reasonable under the circumstances to protect the police officers and the public

Kenneth Eade

#17. So the only problem that you have is actually switch things in the department, changing things, controlling things, putting it maybe under federal supervision, and if you fix the department, you'll fix the problems - with police corruption, with brutality, with evidence tampering, all those things.

Oren Moverman

#18. While police officers who blatantly shaft the common people believe that they are God, they are the Devil to those that they wrong.

Steven Magee

#19. Tell them to teach them that when they call you nigger to make a rhyme with trigger it makes the gun backfire

Ralph Ellison

#20. Victor wanted to have the strength to watch, to witness the brutality and be strong enough to tell the world about it. He wanted to witness it and by witnessing make it real, unable to be forgotten; he wanted this horror seared into every pale pink fiber of his skull.

Sunil Yapa

#21. Don't denounce our pain as savage. What's savage is the cruel inhumanity and brutality of the police. Condemn that.

Amandla Stenberg

#22. Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.

Benjamin Spock

#23. Now, personally, I'd have been happier driving an armored personnel carrier in through the front door. But since we're the Met, and not the police department of a small town in Missouri, we didn't have one.

Ben Aaronovitch

#24. If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.

Malcolm X

#25. There is no shortage of despicable law enforcement departments in the USA.

Steven Magee

#26. I remember reading article about the woman in that Oakland neighborhood who lost all her children to violence. I wondered why'd she keep living there after the first one was killed. Didn't she care about the others?
Today, I zoomed out and wondered why I'm still in America.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#27. The problem is, some officers put more stock in their title instead of their duty. Yes, your job title is "police." But your duty is to protect and serve. Start there.

Janelle Gray

#28. This so called 'Home of the Brave'
why isn't anybody Backing us up!
When they c these crooked ass Redneck cops
constantly Jacking us up

Tupac Shakur

#29. I did not tell you it would be okay because I never believed it would be okay.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#30. It used to be that a man could keep out of trouble if he behaved himself. Now he will only keep out of trouble if he behaves himself, the police behave themselves, and court behaves itself.

Agona Apell

#31. I don't believe there's a white man in this country, baby, who can get his dick hard, without he hear some nigger moan.

James Baldwin

#32. Never trust an armed police officer.

Steven Magee

#33. She had wanted her son to stand for what he believed and to be respectful. And he had died for believing his friends had a right to play their music loud, to be American teenagers.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#34. It is the common peoples duty to police the police.

Steven Magee

#35. Should assaulting an officer of the state be a capital offense, rendered without trial, with the officer as judge and executioner? Is that what we wish civilization to be?

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#36. But it was a routine traffic stop."
"Lots of cops get blown away during routine traffic stops

Kenneth Eade

#37. But we don't have to react. That's what I'm saying. A police force, like a government, should be above that. Just because we're provoked doesn't mean we have to act.
Still Life

Louise Penny

#38. There were no passing cars to call out to. You couldn't call for help from a police car, anyway; he didn't think you could.

Dorothy B. Hughes

#39. Police are killing black men. Mona Scott-Young is killing black women.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#40. It is my assessment that most police officers who spend their days driving around USA cities will have some level
of radiation sickness and this is concerning!

Steven Magee

#41. The police have lost sight of the fact that they are public servants.

Steven Magee

#42. You're full of it. It's not against the law to run."
"Yes it is. Especially for us.

Kenneth Eade

#43. How one tragedy affects so many others.

Kenneth Eade

#44. He didn't see a man with hopes and dreams, with disappointments and accomplishments. All he saw in front of him was just another nigger.

Kenneth Eade