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A protester who suffered eye damage when a rubber bullet fired by Fort Lauderdale police struck her in the face during a 2020 protest over George Floyd s murder filed a federal lawsuit this week accusing the officer and the department of violating her civil rights. ....
A Delray Beach woman who was shot in the face with a rubber bullet by a police officer during a Black Lives Matter protest sued Fort Lauderdale and several of its officers, accusing them of using excessive force and causing her “permanent physical and emotional injuries.” ....
A woman who suffered permanent eye damage when she was shot in the face by Fort Lauderdale police during a 2020 protest has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit. ....
Pat Lynn, the new Fort Lauderdale police chief, said his priorities for now are listening and learning. Lynn, who isn't planning any major changes right now, had been interim chief since February. ....
A Closer Look at Less Lethal Weapons. Join the Pulitzer Center and grantee Wil Sands for a conversation on less lethal weapons, from production and regulation to the use in U.S. law enforcement. This webinar is on Thursday, March 3, 2022, at 1:00pm EST. Nonprofit grant writer LaToya Ratlieff and Neil Corney, research associate at the Omega Research Foundation, will join the conversation. In his Pulitzer Center-supported project, Less Lethal Weapons Brought into Focus, Sands reported on the effects of less lethal weapons (LLW). Advocates for these weapons argue LLWs offer police an alternative to the use of deadly force. However, in the protests that followed George Floyd’s killing, 115 people were shot in the head with LLWs. A total of 24 people were partially blinded, Sands included, and dozens more were permanently injured. Sands is a documentary photographer and journalist based in Richmond, Virginia. HIs work focuses on social movements and political uprisings. He is the co ....