Recent Posts in Police Brutality Category
Posted on Apr 14, 2014
The family of a woman that was shot through the window of car as she attempted to flee from a policeman, has settled a wrongful death lawsuit with the city of Culpeper for $300,000, as reported by the ...
Posted on May 13, 2013
As reported by the Erie Times-News the family of a 29 year-old woman that died after being unnecessarily tasered by police officers, while she was under the influence of alcohol, has filed a wrongful ...
Posted on Feb 21, 2013
According to the Elko Daily Free Press, a diabetic man has settled a personal injury lawsuit with the Elko County Commission for $70,000 in regards to his mistreatment while being incarcerated in the ...
Posted on Feb 4, 2013
The NYPD has been sued by a woman alleging that the department's failure to train its officers properly left her with injuries sustained in a police shoot out near the heavily populated vicinity ...
Posted on Jan 2, 2013
The Star-News has reported that the family of a man that died while in police custody has filed a lawsuit because they contend that the man's death was due to a brutal beating by police while his ...
Posted on Sep 18, 2012
The Keys News out of Florida has reported that the family of a 26 year-old epileptic, detained at a Monroe County Detention Center for seven hours in June of 2009, died as a result of his illness ...
Posted on Sep 17, 2012
A young police cadet with the San Diego County Sheriff's Department has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Salt Lake City Police Department, for the alleged death of the cadet's father ...
Posted on Sep 10, 2012
A Hispanic woman is suing the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office and county administrators for what she claims was negligence and deliberate indifference to her medical needs by sheriffs, while she ...
Posted on Aug 7, 2012
A prisoner at the Twin Falls County Jail has filed a personal injury lawsuit against the five jailers that left him permanently injured following a brutal attack, allegedly inflicted on him because he ...
Posted on Jul 16, 2012
The New York Times has reported that the son of an ex-Marine killed by New York police officers in a White Plains apartment in 2011, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city and the police ...
Posted on Jun 4, 2012
As reported by Arizona Central 12 News, a family in Hawaii has filed a wrongful death lawsuit naming the state of Hawaii and Corrections Corporation of America for neglect that resulted in the death ...
Posted on May 23, 2012
As reported by the Komo News from Spokane, Wash., a nearly $2 million settlement was made out of court to the family of a man allegedly beaten to death by police in 2006; the settlement also asks for ...
Posted on May 22, 2012
As reported by Fredricksburg.com and other media, an unarmed woman that was parked in a Catholic school parking lot did not threaten a police officer that approached her car, even when the officer ...
Posted on May 8, 2012
A Marine that was killed by police on a San Diego freeway is the subject of a wrongful death lawsuit against a deputy sheriff who, aided by California Highway Patrol officers, shot the man 37 times, ...
Posted on Apr 23, 2012
As reported by dozens of news sites, including the San Gabriel Valley Tribune, the family of a man shot at 120 times by eight Los Angeles Police Department officers on a freeway, has filed a $120 ...
Posted on Apr 2, 2012
As reported by the Wichita Eagle, a mentally ill prison inmate, his bones broken during a beating by a sheriff after he had spent four months in solitary confinement and failed to take his medication, ...
Posted on Mar 28, 2012
As reported by the Courthouse News Service, a female senior citizen and licensed pushcart vendor has claimed that a female police officer assaulted her during an unnecessary search, and has filed a ...
Posted on Mar 26, 2012
As reported by the Hartford Courant, a man has filed a lawsuit claiming that he suffered anxiety, economic loss and other personal injury issues when police and first responders kidnapped him from his ...
Posted on Feb 27, 2012
As reported by the Press Republican, a college student has accused two Lake Placid Village Police officers in a personal injury lawsuit for assault, battery, false arrest and abuse of process, due to ...
Posted on Feb 18, 2012
A man in the Tulsa, Oklahoma area has reportedly died as the result of a truck accident. According to reports, the man was allegedly working on the engine of his truck at the time. The truck then ...
Posted on Dec 27, 2010
Sheila Weatherspoon has filed a lawsuit on the behalf of her 15 year-old son for personal injuries sustained when a police officer struck him with a Taser at his school, as reported by the ...
Posted on Nov 2, 2010
Mower County Sergeant Jeff Ellis, and his K-9 police partner, Tazer, have been sited for using both unnecessary and excessive force during an arrest on July of 2007, as reported by the Austin Daily ...
Posted on Oct 11, 2010
The San Francisco Chronicle has reported that the city of Oakland is responsible for a woman's permanent disfigurement - to the key of $1.2 million. The city will pay the amount to Nicole White, who ...
Posted on Jul 11, 2010
Cincinnati news reported that psychiatric patient, Kelly Brinson, was taser shocked to death while bound in a hospital bed, which prompted a wrongful death lawsuit. Brinson's family holds both the ...
Posted on Apr 1, 2010
A settlement has been reached in a police brutality lawsuit filed in Virginia. A Prince George's County police officer was accused of assaulting 20-year-old Robert L. Scott, Jr. outside of a nightclub ...