DECATUR, Ga. (AP) — The family of a Georgia woman who died last year after she fell from a moving patrol car has filed a civil rights lawsuit, saying sheriff’s deputies improperly arrested her and ultimately caused her death, attorneys ...

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal judge’s order that New Orleans police officials show up for a hearing on a decade-old police reform plan is on hold after a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the judge should try to ...

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By Jason Boleman  A federal court declared a town’s ban on livestreaming certain interactions may not survive First Amendment scrutiny, and that a plaintiff who was barred from livestreaming an interaction due to the policy “plausibly alleged” a constitutional violation.  ...

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GRANTS PASS, Oregon (AP) — A lawsuit over the death of a man who was killed by Oregon State Police outside his home in southern Oregon in 2015 has been settled for $1.6 million after a lengthy legal odyssey, the ...

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The estate of a woman fatally struck during a police pursuit was awarded $2.5 million in a settlement.  An Anderson, S.C. bystanders was killed during a law enforcement vehicle pursuit that was in violation of Anderson Police Department (APD) policy ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) — A man shot in the foyer of his South Carolina home by a police officer firing through a window as he checked on a medical alarm will get a $650,000 settlement for his injuries. The Greenville County ...

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FLORENCE, S.C. (AP) — Officers in about 20 police agencies across South Carolina cheated on mandatory training by watching sped up videos on handling criminal domestic violence cases, the head of the state’s criminal justice academy told a Florence TV ...

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FLORENCE, S.C. (AP) — The family of one of the police officers killed in what authorities called an ambush in 2018 is suing the man charged with killing her and his family. The lawsuit from Florence County Sheriff’s Investigator Farrah ...

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The estates of two South Carolina women who drowned while locked in the back of a sheriff’s department van during Hurricane Florence have filed lawsuits alleging negligence by a company that created policies and procedures for the law enforcement agency. ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) — A judge upheld a 20-year prison sentence on Monday for former police officer Michael Slager in the killing of Walter Scott, an unarmed Black man who ran from a traffic stop in South Carolina, rejecting Slager’s claims ...

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