Digital Commons @ Georgia Law Popular Media Faculty Scholarship 5-4-2013 The Problem of Excessive Police Violence Donald E. Wilkes Jr. University of Georgia School of Law, [email protected] Repository Citation Wilkes, Donald E. Jr., "The Problem of Excessive Police Violence" (2013). Popular Media. Paper 174. http://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/fac_pm/174 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Faculty Scholarship at Digital Commons @ Georgia Law. It has been accepted for inclusion in Popular Media by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Georgia Law. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 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