civil rights case

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The nation’s largest sheriff’s department agreed to a sweeping settlement Tuesday with the U.S. Justice Department over long-standing civil rights abuses by deputies in the Mojave Desert. The deal approved by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors comes less than two years after federal prosecutors identified a pattern of discrimination […]

A homeless couple is facing assault and civil rights charges after they brutally attacked an unidentified black city worker. Both Robert Snyder, 45, and Shayla Witts, 28, reportedly left the victim bruised and bleeding when police got to the scene. According to police, the 29-year-old male employee tried to escort the intoxicated pair out of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation […]