police brutality

English

Noun

police brutality (uncountable)

1. 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

See also

• police brutality on Wikipedia.Wikipedia