“There’s a lot of interest in suing and challenging this police misconduct to prevent something like this from happening again,” said Rachel Lederman, senior counsel at the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund.
An excerpt from article by KQUED. Read the full story here. San Francisco police arrested over a hundred people in the city’s Mission District Saturday night…
Rachel Lederman, a long-time civil rights attorney now with the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, has spoken to some two dozen parents, teenagers, and young adults, she said, gathering information about the Saturday arrests for a possible civil lawsuit.
The SFPD is charging the children and young people with incitement to riot and conspiracy among other charges. The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund demands these charges be dropped immediately.
An excerpt from Politico Magazine. To read the full article, click here. The explosive indictment of a District of Columbia police officer accused of aiding the…
The Guardian: At least 19 cities will pay settlements to protesters who sustained injuries as a result of law enforcement action
Lawsuit challenges D.C. MPD’s December 12, 2020, attack on peaceful BLM demonstrators while Proud Boys were allowed to maraud throughout D.C.
The PCJF and its project, the Center for Protest Law & Litigation has filed a federal lawsuit against the District of Columbia and the Metropolitan Police Department’s alleged indiscriminate, violent use of less lethal weapons against racial justice protesters.
The PCJF and its Center for Protest Law & Litigation, filed a federal lawsuit against the District of Columbia challenging MPD's “repressive and violent tactics including the authorized indiscriminate use of ‘less lethal’ projectile weapons against peaceful protestors and bystanders."
Three protesters are suing the Metropolitan Police Department over its alleged use of non-lethal weapons and projectiles like stinger grenades, rubber bullets, and flash bang devices against racial justice protesters in the summer of 2020, the DCist reports.
The Washington Post covers PCJF's lawsuit against MPD for retaliating against racial justice protestors with mass police violence.
The PCJF filed a lawsuit against D.C. MPD to force disclosure of records under D.C.’s Freedom of Information Act, involving the department's violent response to racial justice demonstrations against police misconduct throughout 2020.