“That’s the kind of aggressive-ass policing I’m talking about!” That’s what one Vacaville officer said on camera, when he didn’t realize his camera was on, after his sergeant had shot and killed a mentally ill man whose car they had just chased and forced to crash. We handled that case…
In another outrageous incident, Sonoma County Deputies killed the victim of the crime they were “solving.” Deputy Charles Blount has been fired for his overly aggressive conduct, including a choke hold, that killed David Glen Ward, who was actually the victim of a previously reported carjacking. Stunning video, finally released,…
An on-duty San Joaquin Count deputy crashed his patrol car into another car on I-5, tragically killing an infant on December 14, 2019, at 10:30 pm. The child’s mother, Kalesha Johnson, was hospitalized in critical condition. At this point, we do not know why this deputy rear-ended another car. Was…
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https://abc30.com/new-scrutiny-for-closed-investigation-into-deadly-fresno-police-shooting/5642160/ FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) — There’s new scrutiny for a closed investigation after Action News acquired video of a Fresno police officer shooting and killing an unarmed teenager who was under investigation in connection with a homicide. The April 2017 case seems headed for a trial next year, but legal…
Alex Horton/Washington Post Isiah Murrietta-Golding, fleeing the police, leaps a metal fence, tumbling head over heels. The officers are blocked. The teenager runs, trying to hold up his pants. He is unaware a Fresno police officer has contorted his body into a shooting stance from the other side, where the…
C.J. Ciaramella / Reason Magazine “As long as the command staff, the police department, and the city attorney’s office is actively working to enable their misconduct and lawlessness, it’s going to continue,” Haddad says. Read Article
Julie Johnson / The Press Democrat SANTA ROSA – The brother of a Mendocino County man who died while being restrained at the jail has settled a wrongful death lawsuit for $5 million in an agreement that requires two law enforcement agencies provide new training procedures for handling people in…
SANTA CRUZ Complete investigation reports eight exhibits and 17 sections with witnesses names blotched out by black ink of a deadly police shooting on the Westside in October 2016 appeared publicly on the Santa Cruz Police Department website Thursd…
After winning the largest ever civil rights wrongful death settlement in California history in 2015, Haddad & Sherwin LLP won the second and third largest California civil rights settlements in 2017. We are proud to fight aggressively and successful…
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