Police Misconduct & Inmate or In Custody Death

Stephon Clark’s Parents to Receive $1.7 Million Settlement from Sacramento

August 15th, 2022

The parents of Stephon Clark, the unarmed Black man fatally shot by police in 2018, will receive a $1.7 million settlement from the city of Sacramento. Clark was just 22 when he was shot seven times by two Sacramento police officers who chased him into his grandmother’s backyard. Altogether,...

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Federal Lawsuit Filed Against Police by BLM Protestor Shot in Eye With Rubber Bullet

June 13th, 2022

A woman peacefully demonstrating at a Fort Lauderdale Black Lives Matter protest who was shot in the eye by police has filed a federal lawsuit against the city, its police department, the officer who shot her, and several other officers. On May 31, 2020, while protesting against police brutality in...

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San Francisco Inmate With One Leg Awarded $504K After Being Forced to Hop to Cell

April 5th, 2022

A one-legged 40-year-old San Francisco County inmate was awarded $504,000 in damages in a civil rights case after being denied the use of his wheelchair and forced to hop to his cell by jail officials. The inmate, Vincent Bell, had his right leg surgically amputated and was confined to a...

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More Than $1.5 Billion Spent on Settlement of Repeat Police Misconduct Claims

March 14th, 2022

Over the past decade, more than $3.2 billion has been spent by the nation’s 25 largest cities to settle police misconduct claims. More than $1.5 billion of that money went to settle the claims of repeat offenders.
While the alleged misconduct of 7,600 police officers is involved in the...

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Rampant Sexual Abuse by Corrections Officers at California Federal Women’s Prison: Dubbed “Rape Club”

February 9th, 2022

Approximately 6.5 percent of all federal inmates are female. There are few federal women’s prisons in the U.S. One of them is the Federal Correctional Institute in Dublin, California, in the San Francisco Bay area. Inmates at Dublin are alleging widespread sexual abuse by staffers, a...

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Family of Man Killed by Deputies After Stealing a Pickup and a Poodle Receives $2.5 Million

January 31st, 2022

The family of a man killed by two undercover deputies received $2.5 million from Kings County, Washington. The family did not file a formal lawsuit. Instead, Kings County resolved the claim prior to such a filing.
In November 2019, Anthony Chilcott, 36, stole a Ford Raptor pickup truck from a...

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Off-Duty White Deputy Kills Black Man He Claims Jumped On His Truck Although Evidence Shows No Vehicle Impact

January 17th, 2022

On January 8, a White off-duty North Carolina deputy shot and killed a Black man for allegedly jumping on his truck and breaking his windshield wipers and windshield. But the black box computer in the truck shows no evidence of impact on a person.
The Fayetteville shooting of 37-year-old...

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Man Freed From Prison After 37 Years – Lying Witness Bribed by Police With Sex and Drugs

January 10th, 2022

Willie Stokes spent the last 37 years in prison after the primary witness lied about a crime he did not commit. No other evidence linked him to the crime, but Stokes got life in prison without the possibility of parole.
The Philadelphia man left the state correctional facility in Chester,...

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1,600 Inmates in New York Prison System Unjustly Punished by Faulty Drug Tests

January 7th, 2022

During an eight-month period in 2019, approximately 1,600 inmates in New York's prison system were penalized for faulty drug tests.
According to a report released in January 2022 by the State Office of the Inspector General, the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DCCS)...

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Mentally Ill Man in Jail on Minor Charges Beaten Into a Coma

January 4th, 2022

On September 23, Jayshawn Boyd, 22, was placed into a “designated gang unit” at the Essex County Correctional Facility in Newark, New Jersey. Within 10 minutes, he was beaten so badly that he was left in a coma for two months. He still cannot walk or eat solid food.
The men...

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