NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder will announce a series of court-supervised reforms of the New Orleans Police Department on Tuesday that are some of the broadest and strictest ever required of a law-enforcement agency. The agreement between the Justice Department and the city — in the form of a federal consent decree […]
CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago City Council committee has signed off on settlements in two lawsuits filed by men who allege they were victims of police torture during the tenure of former Chicago Police Cmdr. Jon Burge. The settlements totaling $7.17 million still need the full City Council's approval. More than $5 million would go […]
A sobering new study finds that at least one black person dies nearly every day at the hands of law enforcement, a security guard or some other level of “self-appointed vigilante” here in the U.S. The use and concept of deadly force against blacks is now such standard practice among many of those otherwise designated […]
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Attorneys for three white Pittsburgh police officers accused of wrongfully arresting and beating a young black man ridiculed his version of the January 2010 incident — in particular the black man's claim that he didn't realize the plainclothes officers were police until uniformed officers showed up, too. Defense attorney James Wymard sarcastically […]
A nationally respected attorney intends to file a federal complaint against four Atlantic City, New Jersey, police officers who allegedly beat an African American teen senseless. The attorney, William H. Buckman, an expert in civil rights law, whose offices are in nearby Moorestown, has confirmed that he will file the complaint within days on behalf […]
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — Police in suburban New York responding to a medical alert used excessive force when they killed an emotionally disturbed 68-year-old ex-Marine, the man's son claimed in a $21 million lawsuit Monday. The federal lawsuit also alleges a conspiracy by eight members of the White Plains Police Department to deprive the […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rodney King was remembered in Los Angeles on Saturday as a forgiving man who bore the scars of his infamous beating with dignity. The Rev. Al Sharpton, who delivered the eulogy at Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills, said before the funeral that King never showed bitterness to the officers who beat him. […]
A Chicago police department civilian watchdog group is now spearheading the probe into allegations that not only did officers taser a woman who was eight months pregnant, they also openly mocked her with taunts of “if you don’t like the treatment you can call the Rev. Jesse Jackson.” Tiffany Rent was later treated and released […]
