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Article • August 1, 2025 • from CLN August, 2025
Beyond the City Limits: How Rural Sheriff’s Departments Are Driving the Spike in Police Killings by David Kim A teenager fatally shot by a deputy on a roadway in New Mexico during the previous summer represents part of an escalating pattern of such incidents. While driving across the plains of …
News in Brief by Arkansas: The downward spiral of former Hot Spring County Sheriff Derek “Scott” Finkbeiner, 47, continued with his fourth arrest on May 2, 2025, reported KATV out of Little Rock. The arrest stemmed from Finkbeiner’s attempt to contact a witness, co-­defendant Jordan Hammond, through the Signal app, …
SCOTUS Announces Rejection of ‘Moment-of-Threat Doctrine’ Because It Improperly Narrows Required ‘Totality of the Circumstances’ Analysis for Fourth Amendment Excessive-Force Claims by David Kim The Supreme Court of the United States held that courts may not apply the “moment-of-threat” doctrine when evaluating the reasonableness of police officers’ use of deadly …
California Bans Bogus ‘Excited Delirium’ Diagnosis as Cause of Death by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In October 2023, California Governor Gavin Newsome signed a bill into law that prohibits “excited delirium” from being recognized as a valid diagnosis or cause of death. The law was prompted by the death …
Brief • December 28, 2023
Waid v. County of Leon, USA, Amicus Brief, Excessive Deadly Force, 2023 No. 22-15382 IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT FREDRICK WAID, et al., Plaintiffs–Appellants, v. COUNTY OF LYON, et al., Defendants–Appellees. On Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Nevada …
Financial Pressure Finally Brings Police Reform by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins Their names became litanies on streets across America: Trayvon Martin, Freddie Gray, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd. Yet protests, relentless media coverage, and the promises of politicians failed to move the needle on police violence or impunity. At last, …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from CLN July, 2023
Memphis Police Beat Man to Death by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss Five Memphis police officers have been charged with second degree murder, aggravated assault, aggravated kidnapping, official misconduct, and official oppression in the death of the 29-year-old Black motorist Tyre Nichols. Ex-Memphis police Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Desmond …
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ Police Relocation Program Has Lured Officers With Violent Records, Including Charges of Murder, Kidnapping, and Brutality by Miles Dyson by Miles Dyson Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has spent more than $13.5 million to lure police officers from other states to Florida with a recruitment bonus program. …
Article • May 11, 2023
“I Can’t Breathe!” – California Reaches Record $24 Million Civil Rights Settlement in Fatal Police Custody Incident Two Months Before George Floyd Uttered Same Plea by California authorities have reached a groundbreaking settlement in a case that has cast a spotlight on the use of excessive force by law enforcement. …
Article • May 6, 2023
Fired Cop Who Killed Breonna Taylor Hired by Sheriff’s Office in Rural Kentucky, Sparking Outrage by Former Louisville police officer Myles Cosgrove, responsible for the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor in 2020, has obtained a new job at a sheriff’s office near Louisville, Kentucky. The Carroll County Sheriff’s Office confirmed …
Article • April 15, 2023 • from CLN May, 2023
Police Violence Ignored When It Fails to Support the Media’s Ideological Bias by Benjamin Tschirhart, Richard Resch by Benjamin Tschirhart and Richard Resch The tragic shootings of Black people by white police officers are a catalyst for national outrage. They are regular grist for the media mill across the country …
Article • March 4, 2023
$2 Million Settlement for Family of Beloved Musician, Cory Jones, Killed by Florida Cop Now Serving 25 Years for Slaying by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On February 23, 2023, the city of Palm Beach Gardens, 77 miles north of Miami, agreed to settle with the family of …
Craig v. County of Orange, CA, Order Granting Attorney Fees, Wrongful Death (Excessive Force), 2023 Case 8:17-cv-00491-CJC-KES Document 280 Filed 02/21/23 Page 1 of 15 Page ID #:7704 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 SOUTHERN DIVISION 11 12 …
Article • November 17, 2022
Three Former Pennsylvania Cops Plead Guilty in Tragic Shooting Death of 8-Year-old Girl by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On November 11, 2022, three former Sharon Park police officers pleaded guilty to lesser charges in the death of an eight-year-old girl killed in the crossfire between them and …
Article • May 15, 2022 • from CLN June, 2022
Excited Delirium—the Diagnosis That Doesn’t Exist by Brooke Kaufman How a racialized, gendered theory became the go-to defense for police officers who kill people in custody by Brooke Kaufman The term “excited delirium,” or agitated delirium, first entered legal discourse in the 1980s. Dr. Charles Wetli and Dr. David Fishbain …
Report Finds LAPD Cops Rarely Face Discipline for Violating Deadly Force Policy by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott When cops in L.A. wrongfully use deadly force, they seldom, if ever, receive serious punishments according to a report by the Los Angeles Police Department’s Inspector General. Between 2015 and …
Article • January 18, 2022
Excited Delirium: Junk Science Used to Shield Cops Who Brutalize and Kill by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott As part of the movement to reform policing in a nation shell-shocked by police brutality, oversight groups are starting to focus on the “excited delirium” justification for using lethal force …
Article • January 3, 2022
Traffic Stops Spiral Out of Control and Motorists Killed by Cops by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott   According to the Council on Foreign Relations, U.S. police killed far more people between 2013 and 2019 than any other wealthy democracy on the planet. Data drawn from the Mapping …
Article • November 15, 2021 • from CLN December, 2021
Excited Delirium Syndrome: Pseudo-Scientific Shield for Law Enforcement’s Violent Behavior by Michael Fortino, Ph.D by Michael Fortino, Ph.D. By the time Denver Police Department (“DPD”) officers handcuffed Anthony Sleets on July 7, 2021, he was already having a bad day. He had passed out in a hotel parking lot after …
Article • October 29, 2021
California School Resource Officer Charged with Murder in Fatal On-Duty Shooting of Teen by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman The District Attorney for Los Angeles County announced on October 27, 2021, that a murder charge had been filed against a now-fired school resource officer (“SRO”) who fatally shot a young …
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