Shooting a Fleeing Suspect Who Escapes Still Triggers the Fourth Amendment, Says SCOTUS
"The application of physical force to the body with the intent to restrain is a seizure, even if the person does not submit and is not subdued."
"The application of physical force to the body with the intent to restrain is a seizure, even if the person does not submit and is not subdued."
This awful gun control talking point won’t go away.
“There was no immediate danger,” Sotomayor said, yet the police “decided on their own to go in and seize the gun.”
Cracking down on protesters angry about police violence doesn't exactly inspire civic trust.
The president has ordered the Education Department to consider rescinding reforms aimed at protecting the due process rights of accused students.
Rhetoric around the shootings risks putting massage workers everywhere in more danger.
President Joe Biden campaigned on ending the federal death penalty, but he’s been quiet about it since taking office.
Once an up-and-coming city, Portland was destroyed from within by radical activism and political ineptitude.
Dickie Lynn's story shows how the drug war warped the criminal justice system.
Politicians on the right and the left are coming for your free speech.
The full video shows that Jay Baker was paraphrasing what Robert Aaron Long told investigators about his motivations.
After gratuitously terrifying a 6-year-old girl, the officers blamed her mother, who also had done nothing illegal.
The new HBO documentary looks at what happened before, during, and after the 1978 MOVE shootout in Philadelphia.
"If someone has done something wrong, but not rising to a criminal level, it's perfectly appropriate for an NYPD officer to talk to them."
The HALT Act would allow incarcerated people to be held in solitary confinement for no more than 15 days.
Union resistance shut down last year’s effort.
Art Acevedo responded to a 2019 drug raid that killed a middle-aged couple with reflexive defensiveness and obstinate obfuscation.
Plus: Columbus, Ohio, wants six months in jail for first-time sex customers, Texas' new social media bill is a mess, and more...
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After news investigations uncovered numerous allegations that cops in a small California town were robbing motorists of cash and weed, two former officers are now facing federal charges.
But the agreement could complicate Derek Chauvin's murder trial, and it leaves unresolved the question of whether qualified immunity would have blocked the lawsuit.
For possessing a gun while committing a crime—even when no one is killed—too many defendants are slammed with sentences decades or even centuries longer than justice demands.
Databases of involuntarily supplied identities make for a plug-and-play surveillance state.
The heavy-handed measure, a direct response to the protests provoked by the shooting of Breonna Taylor, looks like an attempt to deter constitutionally protected activity.
Like the felony murder charge, it carries a presumptive sentence more than eight years longer than the manslaughter charge.
A federal judge protests the Supreme Court’s “rights-without-remedies” Bivens doctrine.
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