History PlayingWith / PoliceBrutalityGambit

* '''Zig Zagged''': Some criminals hurt themselves, some others commit suicide, and others worsen their injuries, and they frame the 2 officers for assault/murder.

* '''Zig Zagged''': Some criminals are able to make the allegations stick, others are laughed off.

* '''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 PoliceBrutality.

* '''Averted''': Criminals are either shown as actual victims of PoliceBrutality or the possibility is never mentioned.

* '''Double Subverted''': Knowing that she would be arrested, Carol has two of her minions that resemble Alice and Bob beat her up, in a room designed to look like the interrogation room in the town's police department.

* '''Double Subverted''':
** Knowing that she would be arrested, Carol has two of her minions that resemble Alice and Bob beat her up, in a room designed to look like the interrogation room in the town's police department.

** The precinct has a camera in the interrogation room and Carol is caught.

** However Carol is able to convince enough people to make it matter that the footage was faked.
** Carol injured herself in a part of the station where there are no cameras.

** Carol was hit by Alice and Bob, however Carol hits herself a few times to make there attack seem more brutal then it really was.

* '''Zig Zagged''':
** Some criminals are able to make the allegations stick, others are laughed off.
** A criminal injuring himself doesn't sway the judge's opinion, but the public starts baying for police reform and defunding, riots ensuing when it doesn't happen: cops start being fired in an attempt to placate the mob and stave off the destruction.

* '''Zig Zagged''': Some criminals are able to make the allegations stick, others are laughed off.

** DaCheif decides that whether or not Carol's injuries were self inflicted, she should to be taken to the hospital, where her men are waiting to break her free.

** 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.

** Alternatively, Carol injured herself in a part of the station where there are no cameras.
** The people who hit Carol were Body Doubles.

%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
%%* '''Played For Drama''': ???

* '''Justified''': The Tropeville police force has a bad reputation which Carol was planning to exploit from the beginning.

* '''Downplayed''': Carol makes wild accusations of police brutality at her trial, which might sway the jury even if they can't be proven.
** Carol was hit by Alice and Bob, however Carol hits herelf a few times to make there attack seem more brutal then it really was.

* '''Subverted''': The precinct has a camera in the interrogation room and Carol is caught.

* '''Double Subverted''': However Carol is able to convince enough people to make it matter that the footage was faked.

* '''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.

* '''Exploited''': Carol plans to discredit the police force by pretending to be the victim of PoliceBrutality, allowing her gang to commit crimes more easily.

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* '''Played For Laughs''': Carol is the VillainProtagonist, putting one over on the clueless Alice and Bob.

** Alternatively, Carol is the VillainProtagonist, putting one over on Alice and Bob.