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PATERSON — The lawyer representing Spencer Finch, the city police officer fired three years ago over excessive force accusations, is asking the courts to scrap the charges against his client ...
Attorney General Merrick Garland said the investigation will examine whether officers use excessive force, engage in discriminatory policing, violate free expression, respond improperly to people ...
A Fayetteville woman has filed a federal lawsuit against the city, former Police Chief Gina Hawkins, Mayor Mitch Colvin, and at least five police officers alleging excessive force, violation of ...
Kingsley v. Hendrickson, 576 U.S. 389 (2015), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held in a 5–4 decision that a pretrial detainee must prove only that force used by police is excessive according to an objective standard, not that a police officer was subjectively aware that the force used was unreasonable.
Police brutality is the excessive and unwarranted use of force by law enforcement against an individual or a group. [1] It is an extreme form of police misconduct and is a civil rights violation. Police brutality includes, but is not limited to, asphyxiation , beatings, shootings, improper takedowns, racially-motivated violence and unwarranted ...
This is a list of law enforcement officers convicted for an on-duty killing in the United States.The listing documents the date the incident resulting in conviction occurred, the date the officer(s) was convicted, the name of the officer(s), and a brief description of the original occurrence making no implications regarding wrongdoing or justification on the part of the person killed or ...
PATERSON — Police Officer Kevin Patino has agreed to plead guilty in federal authorities’ case accusing him of using excessive force in a video-recorded incident in South Paterson in 2020 ...
A former Athens-Clarke police officer has filed a federal lawsuit against the Athens-County government on the grounds he was discriminated against when he was fired in 2021 when he was alleged to ...