Cops Receive Qualified Immunity for Coercing a 13-Year-Old Into Confessing to a Murder He Didn't Commit
The boy was sentenced to 25 years' imprisonment.
The boy was sentenced to 25 years' imprisonment.
Up for debate was whether or not it was "clearly established" that officers cannot apply injurious force to a subject who isn't resisting.
Reforms like the ones recently passed in Maryland and New Mexico offer a better long-term fix than the conviction of one police officer.
Even government officials can occasionally admit the need for limits to their thievery.
The doctrine shields state actors from accountability.
The GOP has resisted reining in the doctrine. That might change.
Most victims of police misconduct never get to take their cases to court.
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Whatever happens, much will remain to be done to curb police abuse. But there is still no justification for rioting.
It's yet another example of the effects of having to enforce dumb laws.
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From protests to the coronavirus, it thinks it can protect you from anything.
Among other things, it calls for online censorship to shield identities of public officials and lets the governor control city police budgets.
Prosecutors initially suggested that the boy had a gun in his hand, but the government walked that back today.
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A police officer pulled the trigger. But Wright shouldn't have been pulled over in the first place.
Over the objections of Gov. Larry Hogan, the state’s Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights is tossed out.
The surveillance state is available as a plug-and-play solution for any cop interested in a free trial period.
It is the third state to rein in the legal doctrine that protects state actors from accountability for misconduct.
Poorly written “Marsy’s Law” may keep citizens from knowing which officers are using deadly force on the job.
The pandemic pushed Americans to consider police reform while other countries moved to unleash their cops.
The suspect, 25-year-old Noah Green, is reportedly connected to the Nation of Islam.
“An officer violates the Fourth Amendment if he shoots an unarmed, incapacitated suspect who is moving away from everyone present at the scene.”
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Luther Hall was assaulted so severely he required a spinal fusion.
Thoughts on rioting and protest from a local activist who is demonstrating outside the courthouse where the murder trial of Derek Chauvin is taking place.
The officers knowingly violated the First Amendment, said the court. But that doesn't matter.
It is the first city in the U.S. to do so.
Predictive policing lets authorities add a science-y gloss to hammering people who rub them the wrong way.
"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."
“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.
Rhetoric around the shootings risks putting massage workers everywhere in more danger.
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.
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."
Union resistance shut down last year’s effort.