Kansas Cops Have 'Waged War on Motorists' by Subjecting Them to Pretextual Traffic Stops, a Federal Judge Says
The ruling draws back the veil on routine police practices that victimize innocent drivers.
The ruling draws back the veil on routine police practices that victimize innocent drivers.
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Damien Smith claims in a new lawsuit that police racially profiled him and violated his First, Fourth, and 14th Amendment rights.
Joshua Rohrer not only seeks damages for his violent arrest but also wants the city's anti-panhandling ordinance overturned on First Amendment grounds.
The 11th Circuit rejected Sosa's constitutional claims, and he is asking the Supreme Court to intervene.
Civil forfeiture is a highly unaccountable practice. The justices have the opportunity to make it a bit less so.
Lai's media company covered the Communist government's abuses when other Hong Kong media wouldn't.
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The National Association of Medical Examiners now says "excited delirium" should not be cited as a cause of death.
The city says the man's injuries were "caused solely as a result of his own acts or omissions."
Massachusetts reformed its notoriously bad public records laws in 2020, but reporters are still fighting to get the police misconduct files they're legally entitled to.
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Minneapolis police used gratuitous force, discriminated against black and Native American residents, and retaliated against people exercising their First Amendment rights.
Her arrest may have been retaliation for her involvement in a lawsuit against the local police department.
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All they found was some cool cars and clothes.
Joseph Zamora spent nearly two years in prison after being convicted of assaulting police officers. The Washington Supreme Court overturned his conviction, but local prosecutors want to charge him again to show him the "improperness of his behavior."
No longer will the troubled jail system publicly report when somebody dies in custody.
Eric Parsa died after police placed him in a "prone position" for over nine minutes. Now, the DOJ says that the officers' actions likely violated the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Brianna Grier was having a mental health crisis. She needed an ambulance. She got two cops instead.
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A lawyer for the family speculates that jail officials balked at the medication's high price.
Police have a long history of using the real or imagined smell of marijuana to justify outrageous invasions.
Just about everybody agrees the practice is legalized theft, but cops and prosecutors oppose change.
While city policy dictates that 911 calls should only occur when a student poses a genuine safety threat, parents say it's become a run-of-the-mill disciplinary tactic.
Conservatives who support the bill recognize the conflict between unannounced home invasions and the Second Amendment.
Before assaulting her, the cops taunted her for being homeless, she claims.
Myles Cosgrove never faced criminal charges in connection with Taylor's death, but he was fired for his reckless use of deadly force.
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"They put that man in that cell, left him there to die," said an attorney for the man's family. "And that's exactly what happened."
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear two consolidated cases by Alabama women whose cars were both seized for more than a year before courts found they were innocent owners.
"They had a duty to protect her," says Ta'Neasha Chappell's sister. "She was not attended to because she was a Black woman and they didn't feel like she was worth getting any attention."
Robert Delgado's family is now seeking damages.