Prison death lawsuit cites Sheriff David Clarke: report By Mallory Shelbourne – 08/15/17 09:11 AM EDT The family of an inmate who died in a Milwaukee jail has reportedly filed a civil suit against Milwaukee County and Sheriff David Clarke. According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Clarke is one of numerous defendants named in the lawsuit over the 2016 death of inmate Terrill Thomas, who died …
A former Milwaukee Bucks cheerleader who claimed in a lawsuit that she and her colleagues were underpaid has reached a settlement with the team but the organization maintains it did nothing wrong. The settlement agreement filed Wednesday calls for the Bucks to pay $10,000 to Lauren Herington, who filed a proposed class-action lawsuit in 2015. The Bucks will pay $115,000 for her …
A Milwaukee police officer stands before the remains of a bar last summer, after police there faced off with protesters following the police shooting of a black man. For decades, interactions between police and people of color in the Midwestern city have been fraught, and those encounters are the subject of a new lawsuit brought by the ACLU.AFP/Getty Imageshide caption A Milwaukee police …
The American Civil Liberties Union in Wisconsin is alleging in a lawsuit that Milwaukee police are operating a stop-and-frisk program mostly targeting black and Latino residents who are often detained without cause. The lawsuit being filed in federal court Wednesday is on behalf of six black and Latino plaintiffs who say they’ve been stopped once or multiple times without a …
The Milwaukee Police Department will need to defend its controversial use of stop-and-frisk policies in light of a class-action lawsuit lodged by the American Civil Liberties Union, according to a report. The nonprofit is representing Charles Collins, 67, and numerous others in the Wisconsin city, with a class-action case accusing the police force led by Chief Edward Flynn of racially profiling …
Family members of a Milwaukee man who died at the Milwaukee County Mental Health Complex in Wauwatosa four years ago have filed a federal lawsuit. The Milwaukee County district attorney rules that the death of a patient at the county mental health complex was not criminal. Brandon Johnson died at the facility in October 2012.