The Supreme Court ruled Monday that a police officer who forcibly removed a protester conducting a sit-in on the Vermont ...

The court, in an unsigned opinion, shielded a Vermont police officer from a claim that he used excessive force on a protester ...

The last former police officer caught up in a wide-ranging federal civil rights and abuse of power case in Antioch and ...

The majority today,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in dissent, “gives officers license to inflict gratuitous pain on a ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Three weeks after it began, this case is now in the hands of a jury, which will have to decide whether the SWAT officers involved in executing a search warrant nearly eight years ago ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. The Iowa Supreme Court on Thursday sharply limited the financial damages that can be awarded for ...

BROOKLYN, Ohio (WOIO) — A Brooklyn police sergeant who was responsible for reviewing use-of-force cases has been fired for using excessive force against a handcuffed woman. Last May 19 Investigates ...

Two Wyoming federal judges dismissed separate excessive force lawsuits against Cheyenne police on the same day. They granted summary judgment ...

A man who filed a federal lawsuit in 2023 alleging excessive force by an East St. Louis police detective asked a judge to dismiss the case to give the parties — including the city and its police chief ...

A Long Island federal jury cleared two current and two retired Suffolk County police officers of any civil liability in a $9 million police brutality case brought against them and the county by the ...

The incident is under a state investigation at the request of the Butler County Prosecutor's Office ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A jury has reached a $5.7 million verdict Wednesday in a case of alleged excessive force against children in a 2018 Back of the Yards Chicago police raid. This is a breaking news ...