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Appeals Court: California Must Unseal Secret Files That Hide Police Misconduct

California Black Media February 6, 2020

Activists, some news agencies and civil rights groups across the state are applauding a California court decision last week to reject an appeal that would have overturned Senate Bill 1421.   The landmark legislation, which former Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law in September 2018, allows unprecedented public access to thousands of previously sealed records on police misconduct, including shootings cops across California have committed.   “California is finally joining other states in granting access to the investigatory records on officer conduct that the public truly has a right to know,” said the bill’s author Sen. Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley) in a statement

Report in Kendrec McDade Case Reveals Police Misconduct
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Report in Kendrec McDade Case Reveals Police Misconduct

City News ServiceDecember 29, 2015

A new copy of an independent consultant’s report on the 2012 fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager by Pasadena police officers includes more criticism of the way the city’s police department handled the investigation into the killing, it was reported last week. The latest version of the report on the shooting of Kendrec McDade includes several sections that the city previously tried to keep hidden from the public, The Los Angeles Times reported in an article posted on its website. A portion of the report says the two officers who shot McDade were never asked by department investigators whether

Report Reveals Alarming Amount of Systemic Police and Prosecutorial Misconduct
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Report Reveals Alarming Amount of Systemic Police and Prosecutorial Misconduct

Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National CorrespondentOctober 1, 2020

While researchers of a new report released on Tuesday, Sept. 15, said it’s hard to summarize the enormity of the harm Burge and his underlings inflicted their victims, and what Anderson did, they did piece together a critical and comprehensive study on tainted cases that have only underscored why Americans – particularly Black people – have lost trust in the police and prosecutors.

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Inglewood Police and CHP Accused of Misconduct

Super UserJuly 3, 2008

Brandon Baines A 25-year-old African-American man is alleging that officers from the Inglewood Police Department and the California Highway Patrol used excessive force in detaining—but not arresting—him while his car was being repossessed on June 27. Brandon Baines thought he was just going to check to see why the alarm on his Mercedes Benz went off outside his Inglewood apartment around 12:45 a.m. and according to him, what happened next was a traumatic episode. He put his gun in his holster and when he went downstairs, he saw two men standing by his car ready to repossess it. After some

Asm. Gipson Hosts Police Reform Hearing on Peace Officer Bill of Rights
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Asm. Gipson Hosts Police Reform Hearing on Peace Officer Bill of Rights

Sentinel News ServiceDecember 23, 2021

This week, Assemblymember Mike A. Gipson (D-Carson), Chair of the Assembly Select Committee on Police Reform, held a hearing regarding the Peace Officer Bill of Rights (POBR). The discussion included experts in academia, a civil rights attorney whose firm represents families of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, counsel of rank and file officers, as well as police chiefs.  

Beatings, buried videos a pattern at Louisiana State Police
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Beatings, buried videos a pattern at Louisiana State Police

By Jim Mustian and Jake Bleiberg AP NewsSeptember 14, 2021

The most violent videos languished for years, lost or ignored in a digital vault. Louisiana State Police troopers and top brass alike would often look the other way, even as officers took to official messaging channels to banter about their brutality.In one video, white troopers can be seen slamming a Black man against a police cruiser after finding marijuana in his car, throwing him to the ground and repeatedly punching him — all while he is handcuffed.