BOSTON (WWLP) – Qualified immunity for police officers was a hot-button issue on Beacon Hill in 2020 during the height of the Black Lives Matter movement, and lawmakers are debating similar policies ...

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CHICAGO (WLS) -- A number of different communities of faith gathered at St. Benedict's parish on Chicago's North Side Tuesday for a vigil to mark the somber occasion of George Floyd's death. A death ...

Around 10 a.m. on a Friday in October 2018, 14-year-old Jade McMurry was confronted by two police officers, Kevin Brunner and Alexandra Weaver, at the door to the apartment in Midland, Texas, that she ...

During his first bid to become Virginia attorney general, Jay Jones promoted legislative efforts to divest from the police, pull cops from schools, end qualified immunity for law enforcement, and ...

It’s been more than five years since the death of George Floyd under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer and more than four years since Massachusetts passed a police reform law spurred by that ...

A family's case could proceed under an exception to law enforcement immunity. The Supreme Court on Thursday said innocent victims of wrong-house raids and other abuses by federal law enforcement can ...

Power corrupts. And it's made worse by cops getting an exemption from being held responsible for their actions. This is one of those rare cases. Usually cops can't be sued, only their municipality, ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday said innocent victims of wrong-house raids and other abuses by federal law enforcement can seek compensation for emotional and physical harms, upholding a key exception ...