A California police officer repeatedly used a Taser on an unarmed man who was standing in 50-degree water, watched the man beg for help as his lungs filled up, and only called paramedics after the man became unresponsive, according to a civil rights lawsuit. The civil rights lawsuit alleges that Deontae Faison, 35, who is Black,...
The Michigan judge who set off a firestorm after treating a 15-year-old girl who fell asleep during a field trip to his courtroom as an accused criminal says that he isn’t subject to her lawsuit against him. As Law&Crime previously reported, Detroit 36th District Judge Kenneth King made headlines in August when he spotted the...
A teenage boy who just wanted to enjoy a day out at the State Fair of Texas with his family members was trampled and seriously injured by a police horse that “ran wild through the crowd” after a mounted Dallas police officer spilled a cup of soda on the equine, a $1 million dollar lawsuit...
Parents of a 10-year-old boy are suing an elite California private elementary school for expelling the fifth grader after he sent a classmate emails containing squirt gun emoji and lyrics from the YNW Melly rap song “Murder on My Mind.” The suit is against Curtis School in Los Angeles, which reportedly costs more than $28,000...
A grieving family says a New Jersey funeral home put a different body in their loved one’s clothes, placed the person in the casket and presented them at the family viewing. The lawsuit, first filed in September, alleges Boyd Funeral Home workers were negligent when they put the wrong body in Addison Jenkins’ clothes after...