Jon Stewart Quotes

No one's pro-police brutality.

If people are being abused or even killed during an arrest, this is highly disturbing.

I've had friends who have been beaten up by police officers who put phone books in their T-shirts and then beat them up, then drive off.

Freddie Gray was a story I followed closer than others, for whatever reason, in this larger narrative of police brutality.

Very few police officers are ever held accountable for even the most egregious shootings and acts of violence.

I watched the Sandra Bland documentary and her tape itself over and over and over and over again, and just the reality of that, the fear in that.

Seeing my son getting roughed up by the police is not fun. It brings back memories of when I got roughed up by them. He grew up totally different than how I grew up, and to me, he shouldn't have to go through that.

They [the police] learned something from them Harlem riots. They used to beat your head right in public, but now they only beat it after they get you down to the station house.

Force always attracts men of low morality.

In Staten Island, when you have video showing the alleged chokehold used on Eric Garner, why not go to trial and have the officer(s) explain the tape, and then this jury can determine guilt or innocence? The tape should guarantee that there should be a trial.

In Ferguson, there are witnesses who say Brown had his hands up when he was shot. That should be enough probable cause to go to trial to then determine if Officer Wilson is guilty or not. It is at trial that he can then defend himself and his attorneys can present their own witnesses and their own defense.

They put chains on me; they chained my waist, my legs. Put me in the back of a squad car, and I literally blacked out. I didn't even - there's whole pieces missing.

Rape, mutilation, abuse, and theft are the natural outcome of a world in which force rules, in which human beings are objects.

They would almost throw the cops in jail when they tried to arrest me.

I was knocked down and dragged by a police Land Rover in a hit-and-run.

There's a difference between violence and senseless violence.

Just to assassinate Michael Brown's character is wrong.

We're not anti-police... we're anti-police brutality.

What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to prison.

I've never been arrested. I've been stopped, searched and had a gun put to my head by the Chicago cops.

Violence is the first refuge of the violent.

Are we beasts? Are we taking this too far?

They promptly tore his fingernails out and he started telling things.

There's plenty of law at the end of a nightstick

The police seemed to lose their head completely as they dashed into the crowds on their horses and slashed out with their clubs.