--- title: When Excessive Police Force Is Caught On Camera description: Eric Garner's death is the latest in a long line of violent police incidents filmed by amateurs. canonical: https://time.com/3024396/fatal-arrests-police-camera/ author: TIME Video article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-07-23T17:07:04.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T09:18:06.056Z article:section: U.S. og:title: When Excessive Police Force Is Caught On Camera og:description: Eric Garner's death is the latest in a long line of violent police incidents filmed by amateurs. og:url: https://time.com/3024396/fatal-arrests-police-camera/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta6552b43e9ac6159/69869ca9e8524b31f4603fd5/eric-garner-police-brutality-ramsey-orta.jpg?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Eric Garner Police Brutality Death og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: When Excessive Police Force Is Caught On Camera twitter:description: Eric Garner's death is the latest in a long line of violent police incidents filmed by amateurs. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta6552b43e9ac6159/69869ca9e8524b31f4603fd5/eric-garner-police-brutality-ramsey-orta.jpg?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # When Fatal Arrests Are Caught on Camera by [TIME Video](/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Jul 23, 2014 5:07 PM CUT  Ramsey Orta by [TIME Video](/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Jul 23, 2014 5:07 PM CUT After Eric Garner was killed on Staten Island while being arrested July 22, the footage of the incident quickly turned into a national debate over the use of force by police. From Rodney King in the early 1990’s to Oscar Grant in 2009, examples of excessive force by officers caught on tape may have fallen by the wayside, were it not for their being captured on video. The world of iPhones and Twitter have furthered the exposure of such incidents, which often call police behavior into question. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3024396/fatal-arrests-police-camera/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3024396/fatal-arrests-police-camera/"},"headline":"When Fatal Arrests Are Caught on Camera","datePublished":"2014-07-23T17:07:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T09:18:06.056Z","description":"Eric Garner's death is the latest in a long line of violent police incidents filmed by amateurs.","url":"https://time.com/3024396/fatal-arrests-police-camera/","keywords":["The Brief"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta6552b43e9ac6159/69869ca9e8524b31f4603fd5/eric-garner-police-brutality-ramsey-orta.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta6552b43e9ac6159/69869ca9e8524b31f4603fd5/eric-garner-police-brutality-ramsey-orta.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Eric Garner Police Brutality Death","caption":"Eric Garner Police Brutality Death","creditText":"Ramsey Orta","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/the-brief/","name":"The Brief"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3024396/fatal-arrests-police-camera/","name":"When Fatal Arrests Are Caught on Camera"}}]}] ```