Police Immunity
A federal judge denied qualified immunity to a police officer who allegedly hopped a man’s fence, threw him to the ground and broke his ribs after he told the officer “I can’t breathe.”
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Neighbor Calls 911 When Hockey Fans Yell ‘Shoot! Shoot!’
A neighbor called sheriff’s deputies on some rabid Tampa Bay Lightning fans who were screaming “shoot! shoot!” as they watched Game 3 of the Stanley Cup final on television Wednesday night.
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New Mexico Officers Appeal for Immunity in Woman’s Murder by Fellow Cop
Two New Mexico police officers asked the 10th Circuit on Wednesday to grant them qualified immunity from a lawsuit filed by the family of a woman killed by her ex-boyfriend who worked for the same police department.
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Just One Police Officer Indicted in Breonna Taylor Case, but Not for Her Death
A grand jury presented its findings to a judge Wednesday afternoon about whether the three police officers involved in the shooting death of Breonna should face criminal charges.
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Portlanders Urge City Council to Slash Police Budget
Speakers at a town hall meeting asked Portland’s city council to dramatically reduce the funding of city police and instead redirect that money to community services shown to reduce crime – in addition to police budget cuts last June that President Donald Trump used to label the city an “anarchist jurisdiction.”
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Criminal ‘Clans’ Challenge Sweden’s Law Enforcement
Police in Sweden say they’re struggling to control criminal “clans” exercising their own form of justice, amid an escalation of violent crime in what has long been a tranquil and safe country.
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Trooper Who Faced Firing in Black Man’s Death Dies in Crash
A Louisiana state trooper has died following a single-vehicle highway crash that happened just hours after he learned he would be fired for his role last year in the in-custody death of a Black man.
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Police Watchdog Group Demands LA County Sheriff Resign
Members of the Los Angeles County police watchdog group on Thursday called for Sheriff Alex Villanueva’s resignation over his department’s lack of transparency on fatal police shootings and other issues, marking the latest escalation in a power struggle between county officials and the increasingly combative law enforcement leader.
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Progressive DAs Join to Counter Power of Police Unions in California
Four former and current progressive prosecutors are forming a new lobbying group in California to counter the influence of traditional law enforcement unions that often oppose criminal justice reform efforts.
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Report Sees Overwhelming Official Misconduct in Wrongful US Convictions
Identifying police misconduct in a whopping 72% percent of cases where a defendant sentenced to death was later exonerated, legal researchers published a sobering report Tuesday on the coercive techniques that led to the false convictions of more than 2,600 Americans since 1989.
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Louisville Reaches $12M Settlement With Family of Breonna Taylor
The city of Louisville has reached a multimillion-dollar settlement agreement with the estate of police shooting victim Breonna Taylor that also reportedly includes various police reforms.
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Under a settlement agreement in a civil rights case brought by a man who was wrongfully imprisoned for a murder he did not commit, the Cincinnati Police Department will conduct an audit of homicide cases in which a suspect was convicted but a DNA database identified a different individual.
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Rochester Police Chief Fired in Fallout Over Prude Death
Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren fired the police chief and suspended her top lawyer and communications director Monday in the continuing upheaval over the suffocation death of Daniel Prude.
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Narcotics officers were entitled to qualified immunity on a man’s claims relating to their mistaken arrest of him instead of his half-brother, who has the same name, the Fifth Circuit ruled. The man lost his job after local news covered the arrest. The court determined the record suggests the officers made an “honest mistake.”
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Minnesota Judge Disqualifies Four Prosecutors in George Floyd Case
Pointing to what he called a “sloppy” meeting with a medical examiner, a Minnesota judge on Friday said four members of the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office cannot prosecute the case against Derek Chauvin and three other former Minneapolis police officers over the death of George Floyd.
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Dallas Urged to Cut Over a Third of Police Budget
Civil rights groups led by the American Civil Liberties Union called on Dallas officials Thursday to slash their police budget by 37% and restrict cops on the use of deadly force, two days after the police chief quit over her handling of this summer’s George Floyd protests and the city’s soaring violent crime rate.
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Dallas Police Chief Resigns After Criticism of Handling of Protests and Violent Crime
Dallas’ first Black female police chief resigned Tuesday after facing intense criticism of her handling of this summer’s George Floyd protests and a failure to halt a spike in violent crimes.
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Top Police Brass in Rochester Resign Over Daniel Prude Killing
The top two police chiefs of New York’s third-largest city resigned Tuesday after several days of protests and public outcry in response to the suffocation death of a Black man last March.
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In Summer of Political Vitriol, 93% of Protests Were Peaceful
America’s summer was punctuated by sweeping protests against police brutality and racism and those activities, regardless of the city or state they unfolded in, were almost entirely nonviolent, according to new analysis reviewing 7,750 U.S. demonstrations.
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Undercover Cleveland Detective Shot to Death; 2 Suspects Arrested
A shooting killed a Cleveland police officer and another person, and authorities on Friday sought the person or people responsible, officials said.
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