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1 5-1 Journal: Discretion Antonio Hadrick Criminal Justice, Southern New Hampshire University CJ 510 Ethical Leadership-CJ Professor Jennifer Hulvat October 22, 2023

2 For a long time, police were given great powers of discretion when it came to using physical or even deadly force on a suspect. That would all change on May 25, 2020, when Derek Chauvin and his fellow officers caused the death of George Floyd. In this case, Mr. Floyd was suspected of using a counterfeit twenty-dollar bill. When police arrived on scene and Mr. Floyd was removed from his vehicle and handcuffed. But it did not end there. It would end after nine minutes of Mr. Floyd being held down with an officer kneeling on his neck. All while he was immobilized with his hands cuffed behind his back. Despite his pleas and him telling the officers that he could not breath, he was not allowed to even move. All the while Officer Chauvin continued to kneel on his neck, ultimately resulting in Mr. Floyd’s death. In this case, especially since the crime that he had been accused of was relatively minor, it would have been within the officer’s discretion as to how to handle it. He could have been handcuffed and detained in the back of a police car rather than on the ground with officers kneeling on him. Or they also would have had the discretion to allow emergency medical technicians to attend to him rather than letting him die on the ground. This is a case where officers did indeed use their discretion as far as the use of deadly force (Brantingham, et al., 2022). However, given the fact that Mr. Floyd died at their hands, one could say that they did not exercise good judgement in the discretion that was shown. When it comes to a case that I believe showed discretion used correctly, I chose the case of Ma’Khia Bryant. While many would be up in arms about this case also, I believe that the officer in this case made the right decision in the time he had with the information available. Even if Ma’Khia had initially been the victim, when police arrived on the scene, she was no longer the victim but the aggressor. Even though an officer arrived on the scene, she persisted in trying to stab her attackers. The police officer shouted three times for her to stop, but ultimately

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