As a man chivalrously tried to retrieve a woman’s shoes from Huntington State Beach at closing time, a Huntington Beach police officer shouted “Stop resisting!” before he was even near him, then strangled him, bursting blood vessels in both eyes, the man claims in a federal complaint against the city and the officer.
Read moreA federal judge refused to dismiss excessive-force claims against Montgomery County, Ohio, and a jail officer who used pepper-spray on a drunken driver who was partially restrained in a chair, handcuffed, and surrounded by four other officers.
Read moreA jury must decide if a Brownsville policeman is liable for excessive force for shooting to death an SUV driver who disobeyed the officer’s order to raise his hands, a divided Fifth Circuit ruled Wednesday.
Read moreA man beaten by a police officer in a Denver courtroom lobbied a 10th Circuit panel on Tuesday to revive his lawsuit against the city-county.
Read moreA federal jury on Wednesday cleared two California officers of excessive force claims for shooting and killing an 18-year-old whose family had called 911 for emergency support.
Read moreA jury will decide whether a Fresno police officer used excessive force when he shot and killed a 45-year-old father of five, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
Read moreClaims that San Francisco police officers used excessive force when they unloaded 21 bullets into Mario Woods, a 26-year-old black man, in 2015 will likely go to trial, a federal judge indicated Wednesday.
Read moreAffirming summary judgment for Riverdale, N.J. police officers, one of whom who kicked a man in the face, the Third Circuit said the failure by the plaintiff to identify which one did it means he can’t establish “personal involvement.”
Read moreA federal judge partially lifted a stay Thursday in a case brought by Illinois aiming to prevent police discrimination and brutality in Chicago, allowing the state and city to litigate the specific issue of whether officers should be required to record every time they point a gun at someone.
Read moreA federal judge told a Chicago police union its attempt to intervene in Illinois’ lawsuit against the City of Chicago over police brutality against blacks and Latinos came nine months too late.
Read morePortland police were accused Sunday of being heavy-handed against people protesting a rally by extreme-right demonstrators, reportedly injuring some counter-protesters and prompting the city’s new police chief to order a review of officers’ use of force.
Read moreMariah Charles, a young black woman whose arrest and roughing up by New York City police as she walked to high school — without ID on her — was videotaped and went viral online, sued the NYPD and the officers who arrested her for excessive force and false arrest, in Kings County Court.
Read moreA Texas policeman’s decision not to call off his K-9 as it bit into a surrendering suspect’s calf was not excessive force because the man had a knife within reach, the Fifth Circuit ruled.
Read moreA federal judge on Thursday refused to rule out making San Francisco’s former police chief testify in a wrongful death suit that accuses the police department of breeding a culture of racial bias and excessive force.
Read moreNBA guard Sterling Brown sued Milwaukee and its police department in federal court Tuesday, claiming he was arrested and Tasered because he’s black, in an incident that was captured on video.
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At the urging of families of Californians killed by law enforcement, lawmakers on Tuesday advanced reforms that would restrict the use of deadly force and make it easier for prosecutors to charge officers who abuse it.
Read moreThe New York City Police Department could pay a heavy price for its careless detonation of military-grade sound cannons, the Second Circuit ruled Wednesday, setting the stage for trial.
Read moreFormer Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff filed a $60 million federal lawsuit Wednesday, alleging prosecutors, police and the FBI violated his rights during a 2014 bribery and corruption investigation that brought five felony charges against him.
Read moreOverturning a federal judge’s ruling, the Ninth Circuit held Thursday that police at a California university used an appropriate amount of force while dispersing protesters from their encampment.
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