Reginald Burks says he told a police officer, "Get your ass out of the way so I can take my kids to school." First Amendment lawyers say he can't be forced to apologize.
Mollie and Michael Slaybaugh are reportedly out over $70,000. The government says it is immune.
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Now his victim's family has been awarded a $3.8 million settlement.
The pledge, while mostly legally illiterate, offers a reminder of the former president's outlook on government accountability.
In 2022, police received a tip that officers were getting paid to make DWI cases disappear—the same allegation that prompted FBI raids in January.
A New Jersey government watchdog said Street Cop Training instructors glorified violence, made discriminatory remarks, and offered unprofessional and unconstitutional advice to officers.
Victor Manuel Martinez Wario was jailed for a total of five days, spending three of those in special housing for sex offenders.
Julian Assange and Priscilla Villarreal were both arrested for publishing information that government officials wanted to conceal.
Alabama law doesn't let police demand individuals' government identification. But they keep arresting people anyway.
City gives journalist photos. Journalist publishes photos. City…sues journalist?
Priscilla Villarreal is appealing a 5th Circuit decision that dismissed her First Amendment lawsuit against Laredo police and prosecutors.
Angela Prichard was murdered after Bellevue police officers repeatedly refused to enforce a restraining order against her abusive husband.
Kansas had among the most lax civil asset forfeiture laws in the country, but a bill sent to the governor's desk would strengthen protections for property owners.
The local prosecuting attorney in Sunflower, Mississippi, is seeking to take away Nakala Murry's three children.
Dewonna Goodridge quickly discovered that Kansas civil asset forfeiture laws were stacked against her when sheriff's deputies seized her truck.
Bruce Frankel was tased by a police officer in 2022 after his fiancee called 911 seeking medical help. Now he's suing.
Harold Medina, who severely injured a driver while fleeing a gunman, ordered a thorough investigation of his own conduct.
Last year, the offices of the Marion County Record were raided by police. A new lawsuit claims the search was illegal retaliation against the paper.
Gerald Goines' lawyers argued that the indictment did not adequately specify the underlying felony of tampering with a government document.
"It's just an effort to keep everybody safe and make sure nobody has any ill will," he claimed.
"There is a much bigger story here," the officer's lawyer says. "It goes outward and upward."
"Mayors should not be allowed to launder animus through warrants," the former city council member's lawyer told the justices.
The officers are avoiding accountability after getting qualified immunity.
Peter Moskos, criminal justice professor and former Baltimore police officer, discusses ways to reform policing and turn failing cities around on the latest Just Asking Questions podcast.
On the latest episode of Just Asking Questions, Radley Balko debates Coleman Hughes about Hughes' recent column arguing that Derek Chauvin may have been wrongly convicted of George Floyd's murder.
The legal victory has been attributed to a 2020 law banning qualified immunity for police in Colorado.
Albuquerque Police Chief Harold Medina, who promised to "get to the bottom of this," is himself the subject of an internal investigation after broadsiding a car last month.
It can certainly be true that Peter Cichuniec made an egregious professional misjudgment. And it can also be true that punishing him criminally makes little sense.
"Nobody's ever reported that to me," Rankin County Sheriff Bryan Bailey said after his deputies admitted to brutalizing innocent people.
Even though police found no signs of drugs or other contraband, Holly Elish was strip-searched by Pennsylvania police officers.
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Third-grader Quantavious Eason was arrested and charged as a "child in need of services" after being caught peeing behind his mother's car.
The scandal has resulted in the dismissal of some 200 DWI cases, an internal probe, and an FBI investigation.
Amid fear of rising crime, let's take a careful and deliberate approach—lest innocent people lose their rights and property.
While the deputy's death is tragic, all evidence indicates that the woman handcuffed in his back seat died as a result of his negligence.
A federal judge ruled that Tayvin Galanakis' lawsuit against the officers who arrested them could go forward. He also approved part of the officers' defamation case against him.
Deputy Jesse Hernandez, whose bullets miraculously missed the handcuffed suspect in the car, resigned during an investigation that found he "violated policy."
An analysis of appeals involving the doctrine finds that less than a quarter "fit the popular conception of police accused of excessive force."
R. Anthony Rupp III was cited and detained after he called a police officer an "asshole" after the cop nearly drove into two pedestrians.
