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Oscar Grant’s family on the Chauvin conviction: ‘This is huge. We’ve been let down so many times’ Sam Levin © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Nick Ut/AP For the family of Oscar Grant, who was killed by police in 2009, the guilty verdict for Derek Chauvin was a rare moment of accountability – and a potential turning point in their fight against police brutality. “This is a huge moment in the last 12 years of our struggle,” Grant’s uncle, Cephus Johnson, to...

The guilty verdict in the murder of George Floyd offered the kind of court win that is denied to nearly all families of victims lost to police killings. To some in the US, where police fatally shoot nearly 1,000 people each year and are almost never charged with a crime, the conviction offered a sense of comfort and hope. For the Grant family, there were mixed emotions. Oscar Grant was 22 years old and unarmed when he was killed on a train platform on New Year’s Day, 2009 in Oakland, Calif...

Family of 27-year-old man sues San Jose police for agonizing and tortuous death By Lisa Fernandez Civil rights suit filed after the San Jose police shooting death of David Tovar Jr. Civil rights attorneys filed a wrongful death suit against San Jose police for the January 2021 shooting death of David Tovar Jr. SAN JOSE, Calif. - Civil rights attorneys on Wednesday filed a wrongful death suit against San Jose police after they shot and killed an unarmed 27-year-old man who authorities said was a...

Three Black men are accusing the San Francisco Police Department of racial profiling after they were detained at a high-end department store for several hours before being cleared of wrongdoing. The three friends and Oakland natives were detained at the Saks Fifth Avenue store on Union Square on March 3. Police said one of the men detained matched the description provided by a caller of a man the caller said had been brandishing a firearm inside the store. The men said they had been shopping i...

Three men who say they had come to shop Wednesday, as they often do, at the Saks Fifth Avenue store on Post Street in Union Square, say they were the victims of racial profiling and were detained for hours by San Francisco police after doing nothing wrong.

Journalist Sarah Belle Lin was shot by an officer while covering a George Floyd protest....

Man shot in face by Berkeley police speaks out Robbery suspect shot by Berkeley P.D. speaks A man who was shot by Berkeley police because they say he threatened them with a 13-foot chain tells KTVU he was going through a mental health crisis and that police didnt have to shoot him. BERKELEY, Calif. - A man who was injured in a Berkeley police shooting spoke out Tuesday, saying he didnt deserve to be shot in the face. Authorities said Vincent Lee Bryant was armed with a 13-foot chain when he con...

Lawsuit claims San Pablo police used excessive force after mistaking teen for shooting suspect FacebookTwitterEmail 1of2 Pictures released by lawyers for Luis Montoya-Carranza show injuries sustained by the 19-year-old after he was pulled over and detained by San Pablo police on Feb. 28, 2020. A lawsuit claims police choked Montoya-Carranza after mistaking him for a shooting suspect.Courtesy of Adante PointerShow MoreShow Less 2of2 Pictures released by lawyers for Luis Montoya-Carranza show inj...

Lawsuit Claims Police Shot Black Teen In The Back, Then Removed Bullets from His Body with Their Hands Before Paramedics Arrived A federal suit filed last week claims that a 17-year-old boy was shot twice in the back by police in a Northern California city and that officers removed the bullets from his back by hand before paramedics arrived. The suit, which was filed on Dec. 21, contradicts the Hayward Police Department’s account of events, claiming the teen injured in the gunfire did not p...

Teen sues San Pablo police after officers mistakenly arrest him, put him in chokehold By Lisa Fernandez article SAN PABLO, Calif. - A 19-year-old auto worker has filed a federal lawsuit against San Pablo police, alleging officers put him in a chokehold and left their fingerprints on his neck when they wrongly confused him for another suspect.  Luis Montoya-Carranza filed the suit in U.S. District Court said his civil rights were violated and he suffered physical injury and emotional distress...