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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 ...
The agreement comes after a 92-page Justice Department report found Minneapolis police used excessive force, unlawfully discriminated against Black and Native American people, violated the rights ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Through the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, specifically Section 210402, the U.S. Congress mandated that the attorney general collect data on the use of excessive force by police and publish an annual report from the data. [18] However, the bill lacked provisions for enforcement. [19]
Barnes v. Felix is a pending United States Supreme Court case on excessive force claims under the Fourth Amendment. [1] [2] The court will decide whether courts should apply the “moment of the threat” doctrine, which looks only at the narrow window in which a police officer's safety was threatened to determine whether his actions were reasonable, in evaluating claims that police officers ...
The federal civil rights lawsuit filed Tuesday accuses deputies working as Rancho Cordova police officers of excessive force during a Nov. 20 incident involving 24-year-old Kyrieanna Liles, who ...