16 Movie Quotes about Police Brutality (Sound Clips)

Last updated on: August 16, 2025

Memorable quotes about police brutality, selected from famous or less known movies and other sources by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 You know, if I wasn't in uniform, I'd split your skull with the butt of this revolver faster than you could say police brutality.

Quote from Vacation (1983)

2 That's enough. You know I'm violently opposed to police brutality.

Neil Hamilton as Commissioner Gordon in Batman (1966)

3 I'll bash him brutally. Then we close in for the kill with the police. Precisely.

Quote from Batman (1966)

4 You heard him, Officer. He admitted it. I'd go with the pepper spray.

Mayor Augustus Maywho in How the Grinch Stole Christmas

5 But they didn't get my mind right. Not with no stick, no, sir.

Paul Newman as Lucas "Luke" Jackson in Cool Hand Luke

6 They won't believe you at headquarters. Every time you'd tell them that, they'd work you over, and you ain't the type that can take it. Believe me, you'd spill your guts in half an hour.

Quote from The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

7 The police here are such fascists! -Yeah, right, and not in a good way.

Quote from The Dictator (2012)

8 I shot a kid. He was 13 years old. It was dark. I couldn't see him. He had a ray gun. It looked real enough.

Reginald Veljohnson as Sgt. Al Powell in Die Hard (1988)

9 Either you all give yourselves up, and let us beat you up a little, though not too much, because we are firmly opposed to needless violence, or we blow up this entire planet! And one or two others that we noticed on the way over.

Quote from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

10 Hell, yeah, we can. We the police. We can do the _ we want to do.

Denzel Washington as Detective Alonzo Harris in Training Day (2001)