October 28th, 2020 
Please compose a reflective discussion piece on the prompt below for anywhere between 250-300 words.
If I would argue that George Floyd and Breonna Taylor are victims of police (as a social institution) brutality, a form of everyday deviance, what would be my sociological argument? Important: Please DO NOT share your personal comments. Rather include sociological analysis as well as ongoing mass protests nationwide. PLEASE USE any of the terms that may support your arguments, such as rational choice, differential association, labeling theory, social control, anomie, and social disorganization, strain theory, and conflict theory.
A high quality response would choose one or two of these theories/concepts and explain why it/they would support an argument for police brutality as a common form of deviance. In other words, how would a sociologist explain why police brutality is or can be considered routine (regardless of your own opinion on the matter)?
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