Sentences with phrase «police used excessive»

The man sued the police, claiming the police used excessive force by allowing the dog to bite him.

The incident has raised questions about whether the Campus Police used excessive force in the arrest.

In a videotape played in court, a defense expert witness used a Taser on Schlueter's client, George Engman — and also on Schlueter and his twin brother — as evidence of their contention that police used excessive force in arresting Engman.

THE BRONX — A New York State assemblyman from The Bronx says police used excessive force against him as he tried to soothe a tense situation between officers and community members in Morrisania and then lied about it to the press.

I mean I know there is an open investigation against whether the Vegas police used excessive force (which I don't think they did), but I don't see what the end game of it is.

Perhaps more disturbingly, it found a pattern of police using excessive force against people with mental illnesses, with little or no follow - up investigation in such instances.

Not exact matches

If the person does not pose a threat to the premises or persons present, then any use of force may be considered excessive or unnecessary.Therefore, property owners will often call the police to deal with the situation rather than risk liability.

The city is weighed down with debt, billions in unfunded pension obligations, declining credit ratings, a police department often accused of using excessive force against African - Americans, a rising tide of murders, and a host of other troubles.

In 2013 he argued that a police officer had not used excessive force when he shot a fleeing suspect in the head with a Taser.

According to the complaint, «The Police Department used excessive force... and executed their duties in a grossly negligent manner which proximately caused personal injuries to, and the wrongful death of, Jonathan A.P. Ferrell.»

Reading about police officers using excessive force, especially on people of color, is almost a daily occurrence these days.

On hold for nearly nine months, the trial of two Buffalo police officers accused of using excessive force against four teenagers is moving forward and may reveal for the first time what was said in a secret hallway conversation between the defendants.

The use of excessive and lethal police force against people of color is a persistent problem nationwide and we must recommit ourselves to building a more just city and society where all people, regardless of color, are treated equally by law enforcement.

The failure to recognize that black and brown lives matter is evident throughout all five boroughs, as New York's communities of color suffer the brutality of hyper - aggressive policing and are too often denied meaningful accountability of officers who to choose to use excessive and deadly force.

On February 9, 2017, Syracuse police officer and school resource officer (SRO) Vallon Smith used excessive force against a 14 - year - old Nottingham High School student with special needs, according

Some, including Councilmembers Ydanis Rodríguez and Jumaane Williams, were arrested, and they charge that photographs and video show New York Police Department (NYPD) officers behaving aggressively and using excessive force — including a chokehold.

The NYPD and an independent agency tasked with investigating excessive force claims are inconsistent in determining how and when officers are held accountable for using prohibited chokeholds, according to a report released Monday by the city's new inspector general for police.

The NYPD and an independent agency tasked with investigating excessive force claims are inconsistent in determining how and when officers are held accountable for using prohibited chokeholds, according to a report released this past Monday by the city's new inspector general for police.

Three months after the incident, the Dexters sued officers Mahar and Vella, along with Miner and Fowler, in a federal lawsuit claiming that police had used excessive force and violated their civil rights.

The failure to recognize that black and brown lives matter is evident throughout all five boroughs, as New York's communities of color suffer the brutality of hyperaggressive policing and are too often denied meaningful accountability of officers who to choose to use excessive and deadly force,» they continued.

In 2014, a Liverpool man accused Mauro and three other Syracuse police officers of using excessive force and using racial slurs during an arrest.

I want to emphatically reject the idea that because of Eric Garner's prior arrests, that it somehow allows the use of excessive force — of deadly physical force by the police against any unarmed person.»

«How the video of the incident clearly showing the overreaction of certain police officers to a report of a minor non-violent crime, the subsequent use of excessive force and the medical examiner's report can not result in an indictment calls into question the validity and fairness of the presentation to the grand jurors,» said Ms. Rose, dismissing Mr. Garner's record of 31 arrests as immaterial.

In Hawker v. Sandy City Corporation (2014), he joined an unsigned panel opinion holding that a police officer did not use unconstitutionally excessive force against a nine - year - old student who stole an iPad from his school.

Have these dogs ever bitten anyone, and was there a resulting lawsuit (I want evidence these dogs will protect me in a life and death situation, and usually when a criminal is bitten, their attorney sues the police for using «excessive force»)?

Wallace draws on his own youth in Philadelphia to examine the effects of racism, the question of excessive force used by police, and the value of Black lives in this country.

Attorney Sarah Garvey helped her client, Joseph Rosales, raise $ 20,000 on Trial Funder to defray costs in a lawsuit against Chico, Calif., over allegedly excessive use of force by a police officer, which was recorded by onlookers.

The issue in Nasogaluak was primarily the relationship between the sentencing provisions of the Criminal Code and the remedy section of the Charter, particularly in the context of responding to excessive use of force by the police.

One of these inquests became the subject of a BBC Panorama programme, exploring issues including the death of an Asian man where excessive police force was used upon arrest.

I remember that when the Rodney King videotapes came out, many experts predicted a slam dunk verdict against the police officers who'd been charged with use of excessive force — though as we know, that didn't happen.

Section 35 -41-3-2 provides, in essence, that an intervener may come to the aid of the perceived victim of unlawful police aggression and may, under certain circumstances, use deadly force to protect a third party, even a stranger, from excessive police force...

Justice Donna Hackett ruled recently that four police officers assaulted a Toronto man in custody and used excessive force that breached his Charter rights, according to the Toronto Star.

Typically, a jury's decision reflects community values in the resolution of issues, «such as whether a party's actions were reasonable, whether a product's social utility exceeds its risk,... whether a breach of contract should be excused, or whether a police officer's use of force was excessive.»

Chicago police officers Lynn Mueris and Jason Vanna filed a defamation lawsuit against police Superintendent Jody Weis, claiming the city's top cop falsely accused them of using excessive force against a handcuffed teenager, the Chicago Tribune reported.

A federal civil rights law, 42 U.S.C. Section 1983, allows United States citizens to file a lawsuit against police officers who violate the Fourth Amendment's protection against the use of excessive force.

42 U.S.C. Section 1983 allows United States citizens to file a federal civil rights lawsuit against police officers who violate the Fourth Amendment's protection against the use of excessive force.

If you believe a police officer used excessive force on you or a loved one, you should contact a qualified personal injury lawyer as soon as possible after the incident.

But... this error may have tainted the evaluation of the evidence as to whether excessive force had been used by a police officer.»

Third, and related, at least if a police officer uses demonstrably excessive force, I believe a claim in self - defence can be made.

For defensive force against police to be lawful, the forced used by the police must be excessive.

Police patience and de-escalation are sorely needed in our overpoliced society where I have witnessed a police officer yelling his head off at a driver who had apparently innocently misundertstood re-routing instructions, another police officer smirkingly and condescendingly repeating to a scared man on the ground to «shut up» (here is how my teacher Jun Yasuda would respond to being told to «shut up»), and police on video using excessive force right up to fatally shooting unarmed suspects who pose little to noPolice patience and de-escalation are sorely needed in our overpoliced society where I have witnessed a police officer yelling his head off at a driver who had apparently innocently misundertstood re-routing instructions, another police officer smirkingly and condescendingly repeating to a scared man on the ground to «shut up» (here is how my teacher Jun Yasuda would respond to being told to «shut up»), and police on video using excessive force right up to fatally shooting unarmed suspects who pose little to nopolice officer yelling his head off at a driver who had apparently innocently misundertstood re-routing instructions, another police officer smirkingly and condescendingly repeating to a scared man on the ground to «shut up» (here is how my teacher Jun Yasuda would respond to being told to «shut up»), and police on video using excessive force right up to fatally shooting unarmed suspects who pose little to nopolice officer smirkingly and condescendingly repeating to a scared man on the ground to «shut up» (here is how my teacher Jun Yasuda would respond to being told to «shut up»), and police on video using excessive force right up to fatally shooting unarmed suspects who pose little to nopolice on video using excessive force right up to fatally shooting unarmed suspects who pose little to no harm.

He also had the Appeals Court reverse a Federal Court decision involving the Falmouth Police Department in a case where the Plaintiff alleged excessive force was used during his arrest.

Some have also accused it of being instrumental in perpetuating and increasing police harassment, misconduct, and the use of excessive force in minority communities.

an assurance that policies and practices are put in place to ensure police do not use excessive force, particularly force which adds to the unacceptable levels of violence experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women; and