excessive force News

A federal jury has awarded $740,000 to inmates who suffered broken bones when guards put down a Los Angeles County jail protest. City News Service reported five inmates were granted the money in an excessive-force lawsuit. The jury considers additional …

The Montana city of Billings is paying a convicted felon $105,000 to settle a federal lawsuit that claimed a former police officer used excessive force when he shot the man six times as he fled the scene of a robbery …