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Nearly four years after George Floyd suffocated to death while being pinned face down to the pavement by a police officer, Minnesota Democrats are fast-tracking legislation that would undo a less-than-year-old ban prohibiting school-based cops from using that same type of restraint on students. As early as Monday, the state’s House of Representatives is slated […]

Lawyers representing Lofton’s brother alleged the teen’s in-custody death was the result of years of inaction and indifference by the county and city.

After 5 hours of deliberation, a jury found Michaell Mattioli innocent. In 2020, prosecutors said off-duty cop Mattioli put his friend in a chokehold during a party.

The family of a man who died in the custody of Indianapolis Metropolitan Police has filed a new lawsuit against the city of Indianapolis.

The new state-level lawsuit argues Whitfield died as a result of excessive force by IMPD officers responding to a "mental health crisis".

In some extreme cases, disabled students in the Folsom Cordova Unified School District were subjected to dozens of restraints or hours of isolation.

Even as numbers appear to be declining, Palm Beach County schools recorded some of the highest uses of restraint on students with disabilities in Florida.

KARE 11 Investigates: Prone Restraint banned in MN jails and prisons The police technique blamed for the death of George Floyd is to be banned in MN jails and prisons under new corrections reform law. Author: A.J. Lagoe, Steve Eckert Published: 10:20 PM CDT June 30, 2021 Updated: 10:50 PM CDT June 30, 2021 MINNESOTA, USA — The sweeping corrections reforms passed in the Minnesota Legislature early Wednesday morning includes a ban on prone restrai...

Illinois school workers physically restrained or secluded nearly 2,400 students more than 15,000 times this school year, a period when many schools were closed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, new state data shows. The data, obtained Thursday by the Tribune and ProPublica, shows that even with new rules put in place early last year, schools continued to use physical restraints and isolated ...