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A resident of Milam County and former prisoner in Milam County Jail in Cameron, Texas, John L. Robertson, filed a federal lawsuit against several Milam County officials and jail employees…
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Audra West was arrested in a swimming suit and skirt and placed in Pompano Beach Jail in April 2014. While in a waiting room at the jail, her menstruation started…
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A settlement of $187,500 is being paid to 38-year-old Vielka Lippe, who filed an excessive force lawsuit against an off-duty police officer with the Oklahoma City Police Department. According to…
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Alton Sterling, an African American, was 37 years old when he was allegedly shot six times by police officers on July 5, 2016, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The Caucasian police…
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Danny Ray Thomas was ordered by a Harris County deputy to get on the ground, and then the deputy allegedly fired his weapon and killed him, all within 17 seconds.…
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In a report released on March 22, 2018, an immigrant rights group made claims of abuse against prisoners from Somalia by guards at a private prison facility under contract with…
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On May 24, 2014, 15-year-old Monique Tillman and her then 16-year-old brother were riding their bicycles through the parking lot of a Tacoma, Washington, mall when they encountered an off-duty…
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On Tuesday, March 20, 2018, in Duncanville, Texas, an officer-involved shooting occurred in the 200 block of Martin Luther Circle. Police officers with the Duncanville Police Department responded to a…
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On July 15, 2017, 40-year-old Justine Damond — an Australian woman and resident in Minneapolis, Minnesota – called 9-1-1 to report suspicious activity near her home. When police arrived, Damond,…
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Twenty-three-year-old Brandy Edwardsen was discovered unresponsive in her Muskogee County Jail cell in Oklahoma just after midnight on Saturday, March 24, 2018. She was quickly transported to a nearby hospital,…
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On Monday, March 19, 2018, at about 2:20 a.m., 31-year-old Wesley Wayne Pebworth was arrested and booked into Seminole County Jail in Wewoka, Oklahoma. The next morning at 6:30 a.m.,…
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On Sunday night, March 18, 2018, in Lancaster, Texas, a motorist who officers attempted to pull over for a traffic stop instead drove toward officers in reverse and then forward…
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A federal lawsuit against a sheriff in Louisiana regarding the death of Victor White III ended with an undisclosed tentative settlement agreement in mid-March 2018. White died in the backseat…
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In northwest Harris County, Texas, a deputy-involved shooting left one person dead and another injured on Friday, March 16, 2018. At about 5:28 a.m., deputies with the Harris County Sheriff’s…
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The custodial death of 19-year-old Jafar Albumohammed is currently being investigated by the Oklahoma Bureau of Investigation. Albumohammed died while incarcerated at Woodward County Jail in Woodward, Oklahoma, on March…
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In March 2018, Tulsa County, Oklahoma officials agreed to pay $6 million to the estate of Eric Harris, an African American. A Caucasian reserve deputy with the Tulsa County Sheriff’s…
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A payout of $7 million was approved by the Board of Supervisors in Maricopa County in Arizona for payment to the family of a prisoner who died days after an…
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In Denver, Colorado, on March 7, 2018, a federal jury reached a verdict in a case alleging sadistic and malicious treatment by a prison guard. The accuser in the case…
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In Tarrant County, Texas, a State District Judge allegedly instructed a bailiff to punish an allegedly obstinate defendant using electric shocks on three separate occasions. The alleged offender was convicted,…
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News media have reported regarding the death of Darion Baker, occurring at the hands of one or more Stratford, Texas police officers, that police officers apparently shot at the vehicle…
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