July 15, 2022
An assistant attorney general in Iowa is suing the city of Des Moines and its police chief over his arrest during a June 2020 racial justice protest, alleging he was tackled, pepper-sprayed and handcuffed for no reason. The lawsuit filed …
March 8, 2021
Fifty people are suing a Wisconsin city over the way it handled protests last fall after authorities announced that a police officer would face no charges for the fatal shooting of a Black teenager. Protesters demonstrated in Wauwatosa in October …
August 12, 2019
Three people protesting construction of a south Louisiana oil pipeline last year were illegally arrested and assaulted, they claim in a lawsuit filed Aug. 9 against the pipeline’s owners, a security company, a sheriff and several state law enforcement officers. …