A federal jury in Los Angeles has awarded $2 million to the family of a mentally disabled man who died in 2009 while in custody of San Bernardino police. Sheryl Nash, the mother of Terry Wayne Jackson, 22, of San Bernardino, filed a lawsuit against the city in July, claiming her son died due to excessive force by police officers who failed to tend to his medical needs. The suit also named nine police officers and Police Chief Keith Kilmer.
In an amended federal civil rights lawsuit, attorneys for the Church of Universal Love and Music in Fayette County have included detailed accounts of alleged excessive force by police officers during a 2009 raid on the church grounds. Filed in October, the lawsuit stems from a sweep resulting in the arrests of 22 concert-goers on drug-related charges in August 2009 - - five months after county officials agreed to pay church founder William Pritts $75,000 to settle his claim of religous discrimination after a prolonged zoning dispute.
By Susan Misur Register Staff smisur@nhregister.com EAST HAVEN -- A resident serving a jail sentence is suing four police officers and the town for what he claims was "excessive force" by officers and a police dog during a January 2010 arrest after an attempted burglary.
Defendant was convicted of assaulting a police officer, in violation of R.C. 2903.13(A) and R.C. 2903.13(C)(3). Defendant’s conviction was based on sufficient evidence and was not against the manifest weight of the evidence. However, trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance by failing to request a jury instruction on self-defense due to excessive force by the police officers. Judgment reversed and remanded.
FORT WORTH, Texas - The city of Fort Worth agreed Tuesday to pay $400,000 to a patron at a gay bar who was severely injured in a police raid two years ago, a settlement that avoided a federal civil- rights lawsuit. Chad Gibson claimed his head injury was caused by excessive force used by Fort Worth police officers and Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission agents during the Rainbow Lounge raid, which sparked numerous protests and rallies in the gay community.
Passaic Police Officer Joseph Rios III was indicted Monday by a Passaic County grand jury on one count of aggravated assault and another of official misconduct in connection with a confrontation with a city resident. The incident was captured May 29 on video and shows Rios throwing 49-year-old Ronnie Holloway against the hood of his cruiser before flinging him to the ground and delivering several blows while Holloway is on his back. The video sparked a backlash against excessive force by police officers and calls for prosecution of Rios.
A husband and wife who were falsely accused of child molestation could seek damages both for their wrongful arrest and any excessive force used by police officers, the en banc 10th Circuit has ruled. Police made a middle-of-the-night, warrantless arrest of the plaintiffs at their home after receiving a report that the husband had molested a two-year-old at a daycare business operated by the wife. The report had come from a nurse at a hospital where the alleged victim had been brought for treatment. The nurse told police that the victim's mother had claimed that the victim had told her that she had been touched inappropriately.
This is a continuation of a story that appeared in Sundays Gazette-Mail. During an Oct. 9 news conference, Charleston police released the video from the night Patrolman Jerry Jones and Brian Good were killed. The video details a dark, tragic scene where two young men die. One of the deaths, police say, was a justified killing, and the other, an accident. When asked at the news conference if there was any concern about the sheriffs department investigating the Charleston Police, with whom they work very closely, Charleston Mayor Danny Jones said no. The FBI could come in to investigate any time they want to, he said. The investigation was impartial and fair, and there was no need for anyone else to investigate the matter, he said. Were not going to have a citizen review board, Jones said...
An internal investigation by the Evansville Police Department has exonerated officers from charges claiming they used excessive force to break up a post-graduation party May 30 in Downtown Evansville. Evansville Police Chief Brad Hill said Tuesday an internal investigation into police response to a graduation party at the Scottish Rite revealed no need for disciplinary action against any of the officers involved.
CIVIL MISCELLANEOUS CONSTITUTIONAL LAW/CIVIL: The trial court erred by denying summary judgment in favor of two police officers on a plaintiffs excessive-force claim under Section 1983, Title 42, U.S.Code, where the plaintiff failed to carry her burden to demonstrate that the officers were not entitled to qualified immunity: the officers use of deadly force was objectively reasonable because they had probable cause to believe that the lunging, knife-wielding decedent had posed a threat of serious physical harm to them or to others. Because the plaintiff failed to establish that a citys police officers had committed a constitutional violation in using deadly force against a knife-wielding attacker, the city could not be held liable under Section 1983, Title 42, U.S.Code for faili...
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