Here is an example of an excessive force civil rights violation that some of you might remember.
There have been many cases of 4th Amendment civil rights violations.
Federal prosecutors unsealed a two-count indictment against four Los Angeles police officers Wednesday, reigniting the explosive legal battle over the 1991 beating of Rodney G.
www.latimes.com
Federal prosecutors unsealed a two-count indictment against four Los Angeles police officers Wednesday, reigniting the explosive legal battle over the 1991 beating of Rodney G. King with new charges that the officers violated King’s civil rights.
The indictment was handed up by a federal grand jury late Tuesday but was sealed until Wednesday morning so that prosecutors could notify local authorities, said Lourdes G. Baird, the U.S. attorney for the Central District of California. Charged in the indictment are the same four officers--Sgt. Stacey C. Koon and officers Timothy W. Wind, Laurence M. Powell and Theodore J. Briseno--who were tried in state court earlier this year and acquitted on all but one count.
“The defendants are charged with stomping, kicking and beating Mr. King,” Baird said during a morning news conference called to announce the indictments.
“It was an unreasonable use of force.”