Police brutality is a subject that is not only seen in reserved to few communities or states. This is an issue far more bigger, and the abuse of governmental power expands all over the world. Many police officers all over the globe take advantage of their governmental position to abuse and brutally beat people when they choose to. There are cases after cases of how police officers take advantage of the power that is given to them seen through their the appearance of quick judgement and use of excessive force. The information from “Criminal Justice Degrees Guide” (2014) discusses how ten of the most brutal ways in which people have been treated by police officers because of their ethnic background or the situation in which they are found.
The situations vary in context. At times, people may be found in the wrong place at the wrong time and judged to be guilty on appearance, to which they may receive these awful dehumanizing beat downs. For example, one of the most well-known cases of this circumstances that exist is a man in South Africa, Steve Biko, who was an activist and pushed Black empowerment (“Criminal Justice Degrees Guide,” 2014). For this cause, he is said to have been targeted, arrested and charged with terrorism by the South African government. After Biko was arrested, he was interrogated for twenty-two brutal hours that included beatings and tortuous acts. In addition to his death in prison, which originally was cited to an alleged hunger strike, further investigation proved it was due to head injuries, and the police were never prosecuted. Biko’s case proves that police brutality is a global issue, not just a subject just reserved for the United States.