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Michael Anthony Hardy (July 2, 1955 – July 22, 2024) [1] was an American civil rights attorney from Brooklyn, New York, who was involved in civil rights and police brutality cases. [2] [3] Hardy is best known for serving as legal counsel for the civil rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton. [1] [4] [5]
Crump has been vocal about issues of racial equality, police brutality, and police reform, among others. [93] He testified before Congress regarding policing practices and police accountability, advocating for mandatory police body cameras, the outlaw of chokehold and stranglehold, and for changes to the qualified immunity standard.
BROOKLYN — In a dramatic hearing on Thursday, a federal judge sentenced a corporate attorney who firebombed a police car during the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests to a year in jail, arguing ...
The march was dubbed "Day of Outrage Against Police Brutality and Harassment." [10] The case was mentioned in the 1998 Amnesty International report on the United States, among several other cases of police brutality, torture, and abuse. [11] Amnesty International also uses the incident as a case study on a treatise in the campaign against ...
Lawyers for a man who ran over a Baltimore County police officer and killed her when he was 16 argued to the Maryland Court of Appeals on Thursday he was improperly convicted and sentenced because ...
John Leonard Burris (born May 8, 1945) [1] [2] is an American civil rights attorney, based in Oakland, California, known for his work in police brutality cases representing plaintiffs. The John Burris law firm practices employment, criminal defense, DUI, personal injury, and landlord tenant law.
Excessive force reports made up more than 23 percent of all police misconduct reports in 2010, according to the Cato Institute's National Police Misconduct Reporting Project. Of those excessive ...
Police misconduct is inappropriate conduct and illegal actions taken by police officers in connection with their official duties. Types of misconduct include among others: sexual offences, coerced false confession, intimidation, false arrest, false imprisonment, falsification of evidence, spoliation of evidence, police perjury, witness tampering, police brutality, police corruption, racial ...