The FBI Wrongly Raided This Family's Home. A Bipartisan Group of Lawmakers Wants the Supreme Court To Step In.
A federal court denied them the right to sue—despite Congress enacting a law five decades ago specifically for situations like this one.
A federal court denied them the right to sue—despite Congress enacting a law five decades ago specifically for situations like this one.
Thus far, the courts have barred Curtrina Martin from asking a jury for damages. She is appealing to the Supreme Court.
Mollie and Michael Slaybaugh are reportedly out over $70,000. The government says it is immune.
The officers are avoiding accountability after getting qualified immunity.
"Responding officers should have immediately recognized the incident as an active shooter situation," the report found.
An error-prone investigation in search of a fugitive led police to Amy Hadley's house.
He is not the first defendant that has struggled to reconcile the controversial raids with self-defense.
Almost 10 years after his arrest, Marvin Guy will soon learn if he'll spend the rest of his life in prison.
"I asked them to show me a warrant; they didn't show me nothing," a grandmother said.
Carlos Pena's livelihood has been crippled. It remains to be seen if he'll have any right to compensation.
But poor record keeping hides the real number.
Police went silent on city officials following the botched raid that caused $5,000 in damages.
According to a lawsuit, Amir Worship was sitting on the edge of his bed with his hands raised when an officer shot him, shattering his kneecap.
Too much government authority lends itself to swatting-style abuse.
An unannounced SWAT team invaded a Texas man’s home in failed pursuit of drug evidence. They’ve blamed him for the violence they incited.
Proposed internet bans open a can of worms about how to punish those involved in creating and consuming controversial content.
This was an attempted arrest of a man wanted for questioning and parole violations, not a hostage situation.
Such victims are often told they have no right to sue.
After the tragic shooting of Amir Locke, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey has made changes to the controversial practice. But are they enough?
That perplexing situation underlines the hazards of police tactics that aim to prevent violence but often have the opposite effect.
The Pensacola Police Department has launched an internal investigation into how a 1-year-old boy was injured in police custody following the pre-dawn raid.
Banning "no-knock" search warrants is not enough to prevent lethal confrontations between cops and people exercising the right to armed self-defense.
The 22-year-old man was shot by a Minneapolis police officer during the execution of a no-knock warrant on which he was not named.
A federal court wasn't having it.
Some are using Kyle Rittenhouse's acquittal to argue for harsher laws and punishments. Andrew Coffee IV's case is a study in why that's an awful idea.
There will be no justice for Onree Norris.
"I've lost everything," says Vicki Baker.
A report cites his "anti-government," "anti-police" ideology as an impetus for the fatal no-knock raid.
The case for legally constraining what police departments can do with robots.
Nor did the suspect live at the residence.
It's been nearly four months since a Maryland SWAT team killed Duncan Lemp, and there's been no transparency.
And no, it wasn't the shoplifter's home.
Montgomery County police say Duncan Lemp "confronted" a SWAT team executing a search warrant on his family's house. His family says he was shot in bed.
A group of homeless mothers moved into an Oakland, California, home they didn't own.
Are there any limits to what police can do in pursuit of a suspect? The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals apparently doesn't think so.
Bad science and panics by those who want to escalate the opioid drug war.
The Illinois boy now suffers from severe PTSD and will walk with a limp for the rest of his life, the lawsuit says.
"My son with autism was forced out of the home with military-style rifles aimed at him and made to sit on the cold, wet ground for over an hour."
Police, however, still shift away responsibility for killing unarmed, innocent Wichita man.
Filing false police reports isn't funny. It can get people killed.
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