The lawsuit includes videos of officers firing projectiles at protesters, firing a canister at the chest of a female protester from about 10 feet away, and firing tear gas and smoke at people walking away from the protest site.
“She was no longer able to have family, visitors, friends visit her,” he said. “And she became a little depressed, so I knew that I had to do something to try to uplift her spirits.”
In the video, Elijah McClain can be seen sobbing as he repeatedly tells officers, “I’m just different.” Samara McClain said her brother was a massage therapist who planned to go to college.
“The bottom line is this was a failure,” Shapiro said. “Regulators were supposed to prevent abuse by the big corporations ... but they didn’t.”
The legislation requires police agencies implement strict use-of-force policies, document and report use-of-force incidents, and bans the use of chokeholds.
The Supreme Court has agreed to review two aspects of the case, including the judge's decision to let prosecutors call five other accusers to testify about long-ago encounters with the once-powerful actor and comedian. PHILADELPHIA (AP) — In a stunning decision...
"I believe every member of our body is here to accomplish more on behalf of the people who have sent us here," Cutler said Monday.
Pennsylvania's unemployment rate in April was 16.1%, the state's highest rate in over four decades of record-keeping.
In a release, the Wolf administration blamed Republican county officials for voting to open about a month ago.
The state utility commission enacted a moratorium on shutoffs in March as Gov. Tom Wolf implemented shutdown orders to help stop the spread of the virus.
