A mentally disabled man who San Leandro police officers beat with batons and Tased in 2019 will receive $3.9 million from the city to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit, his attorney announced Monday.
CHICAGO — The family of Dexter Reed on Wednesday filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city and five officers involved in the March 21 shooting in Humboldt Park that left Reed dead and a Chicago police officer wounded. The 81-page, 17-count lawsuit was announced by Reed’s family’s attorneys at a news conference outside the Chicago Police Department’s Harrison District (11th) station .
In the month since the shooting, Reed’s death has spurred calls for the CPD to cease its use of plainclothes tactical officers and to reexamine its policies on traffic stops.
A letter the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York sent to the NYPD basically says you better voluntarily fix this situation or the federal government might sue you.