Sentences with phrase «lawsuit against police officers»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

The family of Akai Gurley, the unarmed man shot and killed in a Brooklyn housing - project stairwell by a police officer last year, has filed a wrongful - death lawsuit against New York City.

On what would have been Sean Bell's 27th birthday, a judge ruled his family's civil lawsuit against the city and the five police officers who shot and killed him can go to trial.

My tires have been punctured by nails, blow torches, and wooden stakes (7 destroyed tires and counting); there have been multiple death threats, I have been beaten, robbed, defamed, sued, obstructed and even arrested and convicted on false charges brought by corrupt police officers (currently the subject of an appeal and a federal lawsuit against the three police officers involved).

Fox News host Jeanine Pirro smeared Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson by claiming he directed violence against a Baton Rouge police officer in 2016, according to a lawsuit filed yesterday.

A Westhampton Beach police officer suspended since 2014 has filed a $ 75 million lawsuit against several village officials and Suffolk County authorities, according to court papers filed last week in U.S. District Court in Central Islip.

A former Southold Town police officer who was fired four days before his probationary period ended last year has filed to reargue a previous lawsuit against the town, seeking damages for loss of salary and benefits.

At Tuesday's Town Board meeting, Supervisor Scott Russell said former police officer Garrett Lake was fired «solely for job performance» and said he was eager for a lawsuit filed by Mr. Lake against the town to be concluded in public.

A recently fired Southold Town police officer filed a wrongful termination lawsuit this week against Southold Town, claiming that «high - profile arrests» he made during his tenure as a cop caused political blowback that led to his termination last month.

The preliminary budget assigns $ 4.2 million for bulletproof vests and $ 10 million to expand the Police Cadet Program, as well as $ 3.2 million to change how the Law Department handles «frivolous» lawsuits against officers.

A former Ramapo police officer has filed a lawsuit against the town claiming race and gender discrimination.

Retired Spring Valley Police Officer Francis Brooke has filed a lawsuit against Rockland County, Director of the Rockland County Police Academy Steven Heubeck, The Sheriff's Dept., Rockland County Sheriff Louis Falco, Spring Valley Police Chief Paul Modica and a half dozen or so other individuals and entities, many involved in law enforcement activities, claiming he has been the victim of illegal «retaliatory actions» against his speaking up on «matter of public concern regarding issues at the Rockland Police Training Academy.»

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WBEN)- A federal lawsuit was filed against Buffalo Police Officers Joseph Acquino, Justin Tedesco, Buffalo Police Commissioner Daniel Derenda, AMR, and the City of Buffalo by Margarita Rossy, the mother of Jose Hernandez - Rossy, who was killed by Buffalo Police on May 7.

Bonner has a different lawsuit against the city and the same police officer for a separate excessive force incident that happened in 2016.

A federal appeals court in San Francisco Tuesday cleared the way for a trial on two civil rights lawsuits filed against former BART police officer Johannes Mehserle and other officers by the father of Oscar Grant III and five of Grant's friends.

The results can be seen in districts in cities such as Birmingham, Ala., where police officers in Birmingham, Ala., using Freeze + P pepper spray against eight children attending the traditional district there (the subject of a lawsuit filed on their behalf by the Southern Poverty Law Center); some 110 incidents of pepper - spraying occurred in the district since 2006.

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.

As expected, the family of Michael Brown filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the City of Ferguson, Missouri, its former police chief, and former police officer Darren Wilson.

Certain New York City police officers filed seven civil rights and federal RICO lawsuits against a treatment center in upstate Pennsylvania.

The decision by U.S. District Judge Brian Jackson tossed a lawsuit by an injured police officer against the movement and activist DeRay Mckesson, report the Washington Post, USA Today and the Associated Press.

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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.

Chicago Labor & Employment partner Frank Saibert authored this column on an employment discrimination lawsuit filed by a veteran female police officer against her employer — one of the larger counties in Illinois.

Adam Josephs, a Toronto police officer, filed a lawsuit against YouTube (which is owned by Google Inc.) in connection to an alleged online defamation, as reported by the National Post.

The firefighter's rule prevents firefighters (as well as police officers in some jurisdictions) from filing personal injury lawsuits against parties they claim were negligent in causing them harm if the firefighter's injury occurred while they were acting within the course of their employment.