Police Brutality Gambit/Playing With

Basic Trope: Employing a Wounded Gazelle Gambit against authority figures to avoid punishment.

• Straight: Carol scratches her face and accuses officers Alice and Bob of assaulting her.
• Exaggerated: Carol attempts suicide to frame Alice and Bob for murder.
• Downplayed: Carol makes wild accusations of police brutality at her trial, which might sway the jury even if they can't be proven.
• Justified: The Tropeville police force has a bad reputation which Carol was planning to exploit from the beginning.
• Inverted: Alice and Bob fake injuries while they're interrogating Carol so they can charge her with two counts of assaulting an officer.
• Subverted: The precinct has a camera in the interrogation room and Carol is caught.
  • Or, we are lead to believe that Carol was lying. But she shows footage of Alice and Bob hitting her.
  • Carol did hurt herself, but do to the psychological pain Alice and Bob inflicted on her.
• Double Subverted: However Carol is able to convince enough people to make it matter that the footage was faked.
  • Alternatively, Carol injured herself in a part of the station where there are no cameras.
  • The people who hit Carol were Body Doubles.
• Parodied: Carol claims that she's being beaten to Dennis the reporter. Dennis decides to gather his own evidence and ends up publishing a photo of Carol self harming, claiming that's it's Police Brutality.
• Deconstructed: Criminals end up dying from self inflicted injuries, exposing the scam.
• Reconstructed: Families of the criminals try to accuse Alice and Bob of murder.
• Zig Zagged: Some criminals are able to make the allegations stick, others are laughed off.
• Averted: Criminals are either shown as actual victims of Police Brutality or the possibility is never mentioned.
• Enforced: The writers want to get the Bob in trouble, but they don't want to make him unsympathetic so they write an arc revolving around him being framed.
• Lampshaded: "See, this is why we need to get a camera for the damn interrogation room!"
• Defied: All interrogations are filmed, with sound, and watched by independent witnesses to prevent foul play on either side.
• Discussed: "Why's he injuring himself?" "So he can get the charges dropped and a free lawsuit."
• Conversed: "I heard Carol's going to break her arm and say the police did it if she's arrested."
• Played For Laughs: Carol is the Lovable Rogue, putting one over on the clueless Alice and Bob.
• Exploited: Carol plans to discredit the police force by pretending to be the victim of Police Brutality, allowing her gang to commit crimes more easily.

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Quick! Get back to Police Brutality Gambit! I'm being assaulted!