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The year 2020 ended in the Poconos with a teenager shot and killed by Pennsylvania State Police on an Interstate 80 overpass. Numerous protests, press conferences and discussions have since taken place. Heres what reporters at the Pocono Record know so far about the death of Christian Hall. As we learn more, well continue to update this page. Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2020  After about an hour and a half of negotiation, 19-year-old Christian Hall was shot by the Pennsylvania State Police on a...

Questions about the shooting of Christian Hall by the Pennsylvania State Police have not gone away since the Monroe County District Attorney’s Office ruled the use of force justified.  For activist Treandous "T.C" Cuthbertson, these questions demand answers: Who gave the order to shoot? When did Hall become a threat to the officers? Why did the statement from the Pennsylvania State Police say that Hall pointed his gun at them “when the video evidence disproves that”?  Hall was carr...

2 weeks ago Last week, the Monroe County District Attorney’s office announced it had cleared the officers of wrongdoing. The use of deadly force in this case was justified, according to the DA’s office, because the officers did not know the weapon Hall carried wasn’t lethal, and because he failed to follow officers’ orders. “It’s a testament to the troopers that they didn’t shoot sooner,” said First Assistant District Attorney Michael Mancuso during a press conference. The famil...

The civil lawsuit is against the state troopers involved in Christian Hall's death in December.

Attorneys representing the family of Christian Hall have initiated steps to pursue a civil suit in federal court against Pennsylvania State Police.

Jacob: Civil suit is already starting to progress Jacob noted that he began preparing documents to file in the Monroe County court regarding a civil lawsuit. "This is simply so the family can get access to the very documents that frankly the entire public should have already had access to, and that would be the incident reports, supplemental reports, use of force reports, complete, unedited video, etc.," Jacob said. After that information is obtained, it will be used to identify the police invo...

Apr 1, 2021 Wednesday, the Pennsylvania Department of Health confirmed 4557 new cases of coronavirus in the commonwealth, pushing the statewide total to 1,024,857 since the pandemic began more than one year ago. There were 44 new coronavirus-related deaths reported Wednesday, leaving the states count at 25,093. Currently, there are 1980 people hospitalized with COVID-19. 392 of them are in the intensive care unit. Acting Pennsylvania Health Secretary Alison Beam says Pennsylvania is less tha...

Video taken from a car with a view of the overpass appears to show Hall with his hands up prior to being shot. Hall, who may have been considering suicide according to Crump, had a gun with him. He put it on the ground when ordered to do so, the Pennsylvania State police said, but later “became uncooperative and retrieved the firearm and began walking towards the Troopers.” According to the PSP news release, he pointed the gun in their direction, and the troopers fired at him. The 20-second...

$300K settlement reached after cop punched man 12 times in the back of the head Updated Feb 09, 2021; The Camden man seen on a viral video being punched 12 times in the back of the head by a now ex-cop during a 2018 arrest will get a $300,000 settlement to resolve his civil rights lawsuit against the officer. Edward Minguela, now 35, was surrounded by police and had his hands up on Feb. 22, 2018 when then-officer Nicholas Romantino threw him to the ground and punched him repeatedly. Police had...

Attorney that represented families of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, plans to take on a fatal officer-involved shooting in the Poconos Civil rights attorneys are planning to file a federal lawsuit against the Pennsylvania State Police troopers who fatally shot 19-year-old Christian Hall in December 2020. Hall “was having a mental health crisis,” attorney Ben Crump said at a Wednesday press conference. Crump is known for high-profile civil rights cases, including representing the families of ...