Sentence examples for by using excessive force from inspiring English sources

Kenny was acquitted last month of manslaughter and assault, but found guilty of cruelty to an inmate by using excessive force.

This bungled, tragic deportation attempt happened in 1998, but the glacially slow workings of the Belgian justice system mean it is only now that the gendarmes accused of killing her accidentally - by using excessive force - are being held to account.

Decisions are pending on whether to charge police in New York and Ferguson, Missouri with depriving the victims of their civil rights by using excessive force in the course of duty.

Last night Mr Sheridan said: "I think there is a significant amount of colleagues in the party, not just the usual suspects, but there are loyal members of the party and indeed the government... who genuinely believe we cannot dictate Middle East policy by using excessive force.

In 2016, a former Las Vegas police officer was charged with violating the civil rights of an unnamed person by using excessive force during an arrest; the indictment specifically notes that among other things, the officer slammed the person's head into the door of his police car.

The regime made the situation worse by using excessive force against many of the protesters.

The Justice Department has accused guards at a privately run juvenile prison of violating inmates' rights by habitually using excessive force and allowing fights over basic items like food and clothing.

Arguably, it has been more helpful to OWS when the police have made headlines by overstepping and using excessive force, than if cops had decided to affiliate with the 99%.

The police were also criticised by Christians for using excessive force in suppressing the protests and aggressively subduing Christian protesters whilst failing to punish the offending Hindu nationalist perpetrators; photographs and video footage has emerged of the beating of some of the protestors with canes.

In a riff that explains why he has always rooted for crooks, he lists instances of malfeasance by the cops planting evidence, using excessive force, targeting minorities.

The suit, by the Cincinnati Black United Front and the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio, accuses the city's police of a 30-year pattern of racial profiling by overfocusing on and using excessive force against blacks.