Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department is launching an investigation of the Albuquerque Police Department following more than two dozen shootings, the New York Times reports. The probe is to determine whether police used excessive force, including unreasonable deadly force, against suspects. “We will peel the onion to its core, and we will leave no…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire,com The family of a Mexican teen fatally shot by the U.S. Border Patrol last week claims excessive force in a forthcoming lawsuit, Reuters reports. Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez, 16, was shot seven times in the back as agents opened fire on a group of rock throwers accused of dropping off drugs on…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is investigating whether a Houston police officer used excessive force by fatally shooting a double-amputee in a wheelchair at a home for the mentally ill, the Associated Press reports. The AP said police were responding to a call about an irate one-armed, one-legged man who wouldn’t come down. One of…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The city of Seattle and the Justice Department are engaged in intense negotiations with a mediator over how to bring about sweeping changes in the Seattle Police Department, the Seattle Times reports. Negotiations come six months after the Justice Department revealed troubled findings about a department that engages in a “pattern and…
Did ICE agents use excessive force? An advocacy group says yes. BY TRENTON DANIEL Miami Herald MIAMI— A coalition of immigrant advocates is demanding that the U.S. attorney’s office in Miami investigate the arrests of dozens of Mexicans and Guatemalans taken into custody as undocumented immigrants last month during a raid targeting a separate group…
