#Pointergate Highlights Mpls Police Union As Barrier To Accountability
In August 2012, I wrote about the problem with the City of Minneapolis dispensing with civilian review of police officers’ conduct. That...
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Posts from Joshua Newville, a Minnesota employment lawyer, civil rights attorney, and mediator.
Joshua Newville
Oct 23, 2014
Rule 68 Offers and Civil Rights Claims
Rule 68 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure contains an interesting and nuanced option for civil defendants to settle a case. Rule 68...
Joshua Newville
Aug 28, 2014
St. Paul Police Inexplicably Arrest and Taze Black Man
In an alarming video posted to YouTube this week, two St. Paul police officers violently arrested and tazed a black man who was simply...
Joshua Newville
Aug 14, 2014
Multiple Allegations of Civil Rights Violations in Ferguson, Missouri
Since the police shooting death of an unarmed 18-year-old black male in Ferguson, Missouri last week, the town of 21,000 people has...
Joshua Newville
Nov 22, 2013
Criminal Charges Against Police Officers Rare
The Stolen Lives Project determined that during the entire decade of the 1990’s, over 2000 deaths occurred at the hands of police...
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