When officers of the law use unnecessary and excessive force, those members of the police should be brought to justice. Police brutality is a human rights violation.

Instances of police brutality are attempted to be justified by accusations of self-defense in order to avoid serious injury or death, but the repeated pattern of cases such as George Floyd and Eric Garner caught on film are examples of the opposite. Minorities and other vulnerable groups are too often targeted by acts of police brutality.