The PCJF is proud to be part of the legal team litigating in federal court against the violent, militarized police suppression of Water Protectors at Standing Rock. The WPLC filed Dundon v. Kirchmeier, a federal civil rights class action lawsuit…
Reprinted from NBC4 Washington Watch the broadcast video above, featuring an interview with Mara Verheyden-Hilliard A D.C. man has won a $125,000 judgment after he was strip-searched by a Laurel, Maryland police officer in 2014 — an incident that police officials…
PCJF Executive Director Mara Verheyden-Hilliard delivers powerful testimony in front of the Washington D.C. Council, Committee on Judiciary & Public Safety, in defense of the right of people to protest peacefully without fear of being unjustly arrested, and against the…
Reprint from WTOP WASHINGTON — The organization that helped sue D.C. police over then-Assistant Chief Peter Newsham’s handling of anti-globalism protests in 2002 now alleges that the department is withholding information on its handling of January’s inaugural protests. In a…