Police Practices and Police Misconduct
Transit Police Sued in New ACLU Case
September 25, 2011Carlos Cardenas was carrying his friend's bicycle down a Metro escalator one evening in September 2010, but a Transit police officer came up behind him and aggressively demanded he move along and eventually pushed the bicycle out of his hands and sent it crashing downwards. When Mr. Cardenas asked too many times at the borttom of the escalator why he'd been pushed and shoved, the officer responded by calling in reinforcements and the group of officers threw Mr. Cardenas to the ground and arrested him. After a night in police lockups, Mr. Cardenas was finally released the next day. Now, with the assistance of the ACLU, he's asking the Metro Transit Police to answer the reasonable questions the officer refused to hear in the station that evening.
Settlement in Carr v. District of Columbia
February 22, 2011This class action lawsuit involves people who were arrested on the night of January 20-21, 2005 (the evening of George W. Bush's second Inauguration) in Washington DC, in connection with a march in the Adams-Morgan neighborhood. Jump to the full story for links to court documents regarding the proposed settlement.
WE HAVE RECEIVED THE SETTLEMENT PAYMENT FROM THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
CHECKS WILL BE MAILED TO PARTICIPATING CLASS MEMBERS NOT LATER THAN MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2011.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN.
ACLU-NCA Demands D.C. Police Respect Rights of Photographers
November 19, 2010In a letter to D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier, the ACLU-NCA has demanded that the D.C. Police respect the rights of individuals to take photographs and make sound recordings of public events in public places – especially police activity.
