All the headlines from our Law Enforcement Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 23 2020 // Five former or current officials of Fairfield, Connecticut, are among several people who have been arrested in connection with the illegal dumping of hazardous materials next to the town’s public works garage and...
Nov 18 2020 // Family members of a Black woman who was killed when a white police officer fired through a window of her mother’s Texas home have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the officer and the city.The federal lawsuit...
Nov 9 2020 // The governing council in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has again rejected a proposed $5 million settlement in a lawsuit over the death of Alton Sterling, a Black man fatally shot by a white police officer in 2016.Baton Rouge...
Nov 6 2020 // An assistant chief of police in Kauai settled a lawsuit against his department and Kauai County for $1.84 million.Mark Begley sued the county and the Kauai Police Department in 2016, alleging he was harassed and retaliated...
Nov 3 2020 // Nigerian insurers are facing their biggest claims on record after protests against police brutality turned violent, leading to large-scale looting and destruction.Risk underwriters all over the country are inspecting...
Nov 2 2020 // A Eugene Weekly reporter who was hit with a tear gas canister while he filmed police breaking up a protest in late May in Oregon has settled a lawsuit against the city of Eugene.Henry Houston said he and the Civil...
Nov 2 2020 // A Snohomish County, Wash., woman faces two charges of making false or misleading statements to collect more than $67,000 in workers’ compensation benefits from the Washington State Department of Labor &...
Oct 30 2020 // A San Francisco Bay Area city has agreed to pay $7.3 million to settle a lawsuit by the family of a man who died after an officer placed him in a controversial neck hold that has since been banned in California in the wake...
Oct 28 2020 // The parents of a man killed by police in Louisiana is suing the Lafayette Police Department, saying their son did not have a knife when he was killed.Trayford Pellerin, 31, was killed Aug. 21 as he walked away from a...
Oct 28 2020 // A woman was killed and more than 20 other people were injured over the weekend when a hayrack side overturned in rural western Illinois, police said.Troopers were called to the scene in Hancock County on Saturday night...
Oct 28 2020 // Two civil rights organizations are suing New York City on behalf of protesters who say they were assaulted and abused by police officers because they expressed anti-police views during nightly demonstrations in the spring...
Oct 26 2020 // A Black man who was shot by police outside an Iowa nightclub five years ago and alleged he was singled out because of his race has agreed to a nearly $400,000 settlement.Jovan Darnell Webb, 33, was wounded while attempting...
Oct 23 2020 // Italy’s tax police raided the offices of state railway Ferrovie dello Stato (FS) and Generali to gather documents in a probe related to the awarding of contracts to the Italian insurer, a document seen by Reuters on...
Oct 19 2020 // A Snohomish County, Wash., woman faces two charges of making false or misleading statements to collect more than $67,000 in workers’ compensation benefits from the Washington State Department of Labor &...
Oct 16 2020 // It took two months for a supermarket chain to alert police and customers about the discovery of razor blades in fresh pizza dough sold at one if its stores in Maine, a newspaper reported.Product tampering at a store in...
Oct 13 2020 // A Black man who was led by a rope by two white officers on horseback has sued a southeast Texas city and its police department for $1 million, saying he suffered humiliation and fear during his arrest.A lawsuit filed last...
Oct 8 2020 // A series of arson fires in the town of Stowe has prompted the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and Vermont police to offer a $15,000 reward for help leading to the arrest and conviction of whoever...
Oct 7 2020 // A lawsuit accuses Omaha police of using excessive force when they responded to protests against police brutality and racial injustice in Nebraska’s largest city earlier this year.The American Civil Liberties Union of...
Oct 5 2020 // A Virginia General Assembly bill is likely dead for the session that would have held localities accountable for damages caused by protesters if an adequate police response was not provided.Del. Mark Cole, R-Fredericksburg,...
Oct 2 2020 // Before a U.S. federal judge on Thursday halted the work of a Trump administration law enforcement commission – saying it had violated public meetings laws – the panel had been warned about shutting out public...