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A man who suffers from schizophrenia is suing Santa Rita Jail saying that he wouldn't have tried to die by suicide if he had received the proper medication.

A Vermont mother mistakenly subjected her teen son, 14, to police brutality after she called the cops on him when she discovered he stole e-cigarettes

A California woman filed a lawsuit against the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department and several deputies who beat her as she awaited a CT scan in […] California Deputies Beat, Choked and Slammed Woman Who Was Handcuffed to Hospital Bed, Lawsuit and Video Show

A Bay Area law firm that bills itself as “Lawyers For The People” announced Thursday the filing of a civil rights lawsuit against five Alameda County...

The federal lawsuit was filed Thursday and named five deputies

A Vermont mother wanted to teach her then-14-year-old son a lesson after he came home with electronic cigarettes he stole from a gas station. What happened next that evening in May 2021 is the basis for a lawsuit by the mother alleging that Burlington police used excessive force and discriminated against her unarmed son, who is Black and has behavioral and intellectual disabilities. After he failed to hand over the last of the stolen e-cigarettes, two officers physically forced him to do so, t...

Bodycam footage shows the moment Vermont police officers restrained a 14-year-old boy on the floor after his mother called the police on him for stealing electronic cigarettes.

A former San Jose cop dismissed after numerous racist texts were uncovered is now in more legal hot water.

“They aggressively confronted, attacked and repeatedly kneed Mr. Jackson in the groin as he pleaded with the officers,” an attorney said about the incident in California.

DUBLIN — About a dozen Alameda County residents last week protested a proposed $81 million expansion of mental health facilities at the Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, saying their tax