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D.C. Police Spent $300,000 On Weapons, Equipment For Inauguration, DCist reports

November 1, 2017

In preparation for the inauguration of Donald Trump, the Metropolitan Police Department spent around $300,000 on equipment like smoke bombs, stinger rounds, rubber baton rounds, and other “less-lethal” munitions.

October 27, 2017

PCJF Executive Director Mara Verheyden-Hilliard spoke with hosts Brian Becker and John Kiriakou on the “Loud and Clear” radio program about the J20 prosecutions.

August 16, 2017

PCJF’s reply brief as they appealed the lower court decision in Dundon v. Kirchmeier to the Eighth Circuit. Click to download the brief.

July 3, 2017

In a 2017 report by the D.C. Auditor, the office recommended that MPD release public records regarding law enforcement's treatment of protestors to the PCJF.

May 1, 2017

Alexei Wood live-streamed his every move and utterance to Facebook. Now he’s one of the last journalists to face charges, U.S. News reports.

May 1, 2017

PCJF sent an open letter to DC Council declaring that there should be no confirmation of Newsham prior to independent investigation into police actions of January 20, 2017.

April 28, 2017

After exhibiting Rigo23's statue of longtime political prisoner Leonard Peltier, AU immediately capitulated to the FBI Agent's Association's demand that the statue be removed, in the process publicly decapitating the statue and extinguishing free expression.

April 19, 2017

Carl Messineo, co-founder of The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, appears on Law and Disorder Radio to discuss consent decrees and policing in the U.S.

April 12, 2017

Lost between the tumult of Inauguration Day and the spectacle of the Women's March was the arrest of 214 protesters—now facing felony charges and 10 years in prison.

April 3, 2017

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…

March 31, 2017

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…

March 24, 2017

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…

Police Misconduct

D.C. Police Spent $300,000 On Weapons, Equipment For Inauguration, DCist reports

Interview: Crackdown on Trump protesters

Standing Rock (Dundon) – Appellant’s Reply Brief 2017

D.C. Auditor Report on MPD’s Surveillance of Protests- 2017

Independent Journalist Now Faces 70 Years in Prison After Inauguration Mass Arrest

PCJF: No Confirmation of Newsham Prior to Independent Investigation – Call the DC Council!

Free Artistic Expression on Campus Extinguished Under Pressure from FBI Agent’s Association

Trump and Sessions’ War on Consent Decrees and Police Accountability

Esquire: How the Government is Turning Protesters into Felons

PCJF Joins Legal Team Defending Water Protectors at Standing Rock

PCJF Helps Win $125K Judgment for Illegal Public Strip Search

PCJF Testifies Against the Appointment of Peter Newsham as DC Metro Police Chief

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