Sentence examples for employing excessive force from inspiring English sources

In the United States, such confrontations are known colloquially as "suicide by cop.'' In Israel and the West Bank, the fatality rate from attempted stabbings has spurred criticism that Israeli security forces are employing excessive force.

Police officers sometimes employ excessive force; sometimes, they kill people for no good reason.

Despite the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches and seizures, the Supreme Court's interpretation of that provision gives the police frighteningly wide discretion to follow, stop, question, frisk and employ excessive force against African-Americans and Latinos who have shown virtually no indication of wrongdoing.

The Justice Department also found that officers retaliated against citizens, took a lax approach to sexual assault cases, employed excessive force too freely and used slurs against LGBT people.

"Since October, there have been persistent and credible allegations, at least in some cases, that security officials are employing excessive use of force against suspected Palestinian attackers, and some senior Israeli officials have made statements telling police to kill — rather than arrest — Palestinian suspects," Sari Bashi, HRW's Israel/Palestine Director told VICE News.

So what if the guards did use excessive force?

Did they use excessive force?

Our police have been known to use excessive force.

Don't use excessive force.

Amnesty International condemned the "use of excessive force" by police.

PHOENIX — The inspectors who set out last year to review the use-of-force policies employed by the roughly 40,000 federal agents guarding the nation's borders faced a significant obstacle from the get-go: Neither of two separate systems to track complaints of misconduct offered a clear way to link a specific accusation to the use of excessive force.