The first use of the term in the American press was in 1872 when the Chicago Tribune reported the beating of a civilian who was under arrest at the Harrison Street Police Station. And "police brutality" is becoming one of our most "venerated institutions!"
Boys are bruised by their ferocity, women insulted by their ruffianism and that which brutality has done, perjury denies, and magisterial stupidity suffers to go unpunished. Scarcely a week passes without their committing some offence which disgusts everybody but the magistrates. The term "police brutality" was first used in Britain in the mid-19th century, with The Puppet-Show (a short-lived rival to Punch) complaining in September 1848:
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