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June 8, 2011 - Assistant U.S. Attorney General Thomas E. Perez announced a federal investigation into whether the Portland police engage in a "pattern or practice" of civil rights violations, particularly against people with mental illness, relating to officers' use of force, and charged the Civil Rights Divisions Special Litigation section to ...
The US Justice Department has entered an agreement with the Antioch, California, police department, which will end an investigation into racist text messages sent and received by its officers.
Pierson v. Ray, 386 U.S. 547 (1967), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court first introduced the justification for qualified immunity for police officers from being sued for civil rights violations under Section 1983, by arguing that "[a] policeman's lot is not so unhappy that he must choose between being charged with dereliction of duty if he does not arrest when he had ...
The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, following a 13-month investigation, found that Trenton police officers often use physical force, including pepper spray, against people who are ...
Police misconduct and civil rights violations [ edit ] According to the Washington Post , police brutality within the district was "particularly present under the leadership of Frank Rizzo ", and the district had "a long history of periodic scandals and corruption cases, as well as a reputation for police brutality."
Tyron McAlpin's lawyers say he couldn't hear the commands of the officers when they jumped out of a police cruiser and immediately attacked him.
Proposition 209 has been the subject of many lawsuits in state courts since its passage but has withstood legal scrutiny over the years. On November 27, 1996, U.S. District Court Judge Thelton Henderson blocked enforcement of the proposition. [17] A three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals subsequently overturned that ruling. [18]
Democratic lawmakers are mounting a new attempt to ensure that federal officials, including thousands of law enforcement officers, can be individually sued for constitutional violations such as ...