The case includes the names of more than 40 people, including a man currently serving life in prison after he was found ...

BROOKLYN, Ohio (WOIO) — A Brooklyn police sergeant who was responsible for reviewing use-of-force cases has been fired for using excessive force against a handcuffed woman. Last May 19 Investigates ...

A federal jury on Friday found that Syracuse police Officer Scott Fura did not use excessive force June 15, 2009, when he arrested Sean E. McMahon, of Syracuse. The case was in front of Magistrate ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This file photo shows a small crowd gathered outside Da Beno Nite Club at 6830 State St in East St. Louis in 2022, when FBI agents ...

A man who filed a federal lawsuit in 2023 alleging excessive force by an East St. Louis police detective asked a judge to dismiss the case to give the parties — including the city and its police chief ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A jury has reached a $5.7 million verdict Wednesday in a case of alleged excessive force against children in a 2018 Back of the ...

AUGUSTA, Maine (WMTW) - State lawmakers on the Legislature’s Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee are looking for answers following a high-profile lawsuit against Maine State Police for ...

The Supreme Court ruled Monday that a police officer who forcibly removed a protester conducting a sit-in on the Vermont ...

The Supreme Court on Monday shielded a Vermont police officer from a legal claim that he used excessive force on a protester during a sit-in at the state’s Capitol. The court, in an unsigned opinion, ...

Justice Sonia Sotomayor lamented what she said was "troubling asymmetry" in the court's tendency to grant blanket immunity to ...