Needs Help: Police Brutality

The trope is No Real Life Examples Please, but is illustrated by a real life photograph. I'll open with this◊ as a replacement suggestion.

Opened.

Does it have to show a scene where the police beat someone or something similar (e.g. police officers shown taking a bribe, etc.)

Yeah, it's about police brutality, not mere corruption.

I would say a depiction of excessive force would be the best sort of illustration. Taking a bribe says more about Dirty Cop than Police Brutality.

If we decide to go the comedy route...

"We're gonna straighten you out!" "This'll fix ya!"◊

The officers in Futurama do this fairly frequently, so an image from that show might work.

Don't have one offhand though.

Dredd works.

Judge Dredd.

edited 15th Oct '15 10:53:36 AM by MagwitchOo

for OP

Dredd will do nicely, I think.

I don't know, the Spongebob pic is funny and illustrates the trope, but I'm fine with Judge Dredd if we go with that.

Yeah, no one else so much as even commented on the Sponge Bob one I suggested.

Judge Dredd is good.

Actually, now that I think about it, Dredd hardly looks like a police officer. He just looks like an anti-hero beating a supervillain. The Spongebob pic, on the other hand, shows two cops (who are obviously cops) beating an inanimate object; two cops who would use brutality with extreme prejudice.

I don't know, he looks like a law enforcement enough to me; he got a police baton and a badge.

That badge looks more like a generic shield than any police badge, and that outfit doesn't exactly say "police", not even riot control.

You don't attach shields at one side of your chest, I'm pretty sure. Also, his outfit features helmet, baton, and elbow/knee guards. That looks pretty riot-guardy to me.

There's also the fact someone is being beaten up for graffiti-ing "Judges Out"-supposing that a "supervillain" would protest for civil rights really makes no sense. Combined with every other visual element already pointed out it's clearly someone from law enforcement roughing up a citizen for criticizing the system.

I get more of a Police Are Useless vibe from Spongebob, honestly. I don't think a comedic approach works because it constrives to make them look not vicious so much as straight-up incompetent.

edited 20th Oct '15 3:27:42 AM by Morgenthaler

That looks like a lot of armor for someone who's simply disobedient, although I see your point on an example that's Played for Laughs.

It's not.

Should we do a crowner between Dredd and Sponge Bob?

Before we do that, I would like to suggest a few more images.

Futurama: [1]◊

A Clockwork Orange: [2]◊

Grand Theft Auto V: [3]◊

edited 6th Nov '15 2:20:23 PM by Josef5678

Futurama could work in higher quality.

Agreed.