Tag: Civil rights violations
Appeals court won’t review denial of firing squad request
ATLANTA — A federal appeals court has declined to reconsider its earlier ruling that rejected the request by a man on Georgia's death row...
Florida’s governor sued over new ‘anti-riot’ law
ORLANDO, Fla. — A social justice group has filed a lawsuit against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and others two days after the Republican signed...
Man charged with trying to run down Black kids with truck
HOLBROOK, Mass. — A Massachusetts man has been charged with hate crimes after authorities say he drove his pickup truck toward a group of...
Ohio city to pay couple $450K to settle police abuse lawsuit
CLEVELAND — A Cleveland suburb has agreed to pay a couple $450,000 to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit filed after a dashcam video...
Class-action lawsuit alleges brutality by Rochester police
A class-action lawsuit filed Monday accuses Rochester officials of allowing a culture of police brutality against racial minorities to fester and asks a court...
Lawsuits: SC officials ignored risks ahead of prison riot
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A slew of new lawsuits accuse South Carolina prisons officials of negligence and constitutional rights violations in a 2018 riot in...
San Francisco school board member sues over tweet response
SAN FRANCISCO — The former vice president of San Francisco’s school board is suing the district and her colleagues after they voted to strip...
Federal look into Breonna Taylor’s death casts a wider net
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Their numbers have dwindled since protesters first flooded Louisville’s streets after police fatally shot Breonna Taylor in her home a year...
50 people sue Wisconsin city over handling of protests
WAUWATOSA, Wis. — Fifty people are suing a Wisconsin city over the way it handled protests last fall after authorities announced that a police...
Victim of botched Chicago police raid sues city
CHICAGO — A social worker who endured a botched raid conducted by Chicago police officers in 2019 has sued the city, alleging officials engaged...