31.   Flanagan disputes suggestions that the RUC routinely overlooks the use of excessive force and other misconduct.

32.   Fuhrman was punished by the department upon review of statements by independent witnesses that led to the excessive force allegation being sustained.

33.   Grabau said that self-defense was a legally acceptable defense, provided it did not involve excessive force.

34.   He also took political fire from Israeli Arab legislators who said Israel used excessive force against the Palestinians and against its own Arab citizens.

35.   He said the agents had not intentionally used excessive force.

36.   He noted the department has won all nine of the recent lawsuits charging excessive force that have made it to trial in the last five years.

37.   He is accused of neglect of duty and using excessive force in arresting Williams, who died later that night in police custody.

38.   He said retaliation by officers after an inmate was handcuffed was a common form of excessive force.

39.   He was suspended for violations ranging from insubordination to use of excessive force on inmates.

40.   Her mother reminded her that their civil case remained, as well as another criminal case where Livoti is accused of using excessive force in arresting a teen-ager.