English
Noun
police brutality (uncountable)
- The use of excessive, unjustified force, typically of a physical nature, but also including verbal abuse and psychological intimidation, by a police officer while carrying out, or under the cover of carrying out, law enforcement duties.
Translations
use of excessive force by a police officer
- Arabic: عنف الشرطة m (ʕunf al-šurṭa)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 警察暴力 (jǐngchá bàolì)
- Danish: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: poliisiväkivalta (fi)
- French: violence policière (fr) f, (rare) brutalité policière f
- German: Polizeibrutalität f, Polizeigewalt (de) f
- Italian: brutalità poliziesca f, violenza poliziesca f
- Japanese: 警察の暴力
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: politivold m
- Polish: brutalność policji f
- Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
- Romanian: brutalitatea poliției f (definite)
- Spanish: brutalidad policial f, sevicia policial f
- Swedish: polisbrutalitet (sv) c
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