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OAKLAND, CA (September 10, 2020) — Civil rights law firm Haddad & Sherwin LLP announced today that they have filed the first claim against the State of California and the CDCR for the COVID-19 death of a San Quentin prisoner stemming from the botched transfer of 121 untested prisoners from…
Buffalo, New York, police recently shoved Martin Gugino, a 75-year-old man who was protesting the murder of George Floyd, knocking Mr. Gugino to the ground and causing a head injury that immediately began to bleed and required hospitalization. Then a gang of officers callously walked past Mr. Gugino as he…
Today, in response to community uprising over Minneapolis police officers’ murder of George Floyd by restraint asphyxia, Donald Trump tweeted “when the looting starts, the shooting starts.”  Mr. Trump is promoting the use of deadly force in response to property crimes, which is blatantly unconstitutional. The United States Constitution prohibits…
This was George Floyd’s plea last night to Minneapolis Police Officers as they held him face down, with one knee on his torso and one knee on his neck. News reports show the officers held Mr. Floyd down for over eight minutes, keeping an officer’s knee pressing on his torso…
The front page of this past Sunday’s San Francisco Chronicle (December 28, 2014) bore the headline, “Civil Rights Leaders Seek More Black Prosecutors.” The premise of the article is that if more prosecutors were Black, more police officers who illegally kill people would be prosecuted. While increasing the racial diversity of our nation’s…
SACRAMENTO, CA (March 26, 2014) — Civil rights law firm Haddad & Sherwin announced today that it has filed a federal civil rights and wrongful death lawsuit on behalf of Kendall Walker’s parents and young son. On July 18, 2013, officers from the Vacaville Police Department fired multiple shots killing…
“Nobody can dispute the fact that the law is established that you can’t go blowing [away] a police officer making an arrest.” That’s what our federal court judge said when she denied the defense of qualified immunity to the rookie officers who shot and killed our client, Oakland Police Officer…
Police officers undoubtedly have a dangerous job. We have represented several officers who were injured or killed in the course of their job. How dangerous is it? Based on the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, Forbes lists the top ten most dangerous jobs in America: 1. Logging workers 2. Fishers and related…