A STUDY OF POLICE BRUTALITY, THE ENDSARS PROTEST, NIGERIA

This study focuses on police brutality in Nigeria using the EndSARS protest as a case study. It evaluates the conflicts between the Nigerian police force youths during the October 2020 End SARS protests that began in Ugheli in Delta State. The act of police brutality in Nigeria had begun before the EndSARS protest erupted. The origin of police brutality could be traced down to the colonial period when the British government established the police force. The British colonial administration established a police force as a means of solely enforcing her will and not to protect its subjects, or the natives, as the case may be. The colonial state was also deemed to be above the law, It had a monopoly of deadly arms and force which it could apply at will and the power to crush and criminalize dissent and dissenters. Any form of resistance to it's violence was regarded as illegitimate and deserving ofretribution.