UC Berkeley Human Rights Center documents police violence in US

The UC Berkeley Human Rights Center, or HRC, partnered with Amnesty International to document incidents of U.S. police violence from May 26 to June 5 and discovered uses of excessive force.

Led by Sam Dubberley, head of Amnesty’s crisis response evidence lab, researchers from the HRC and the University of Cambridge watched more than 500 videos from the internet and documented police violence, according to Diana Chavez-Varela, a UC Berkeley researcher on the project. The HRC’s lab works…