Photo Caption: Veterans of the Little Rock Police Department have recently settled a federal discrimination lawsuit against the city. (Photo: Little Rock police) VIEW VIDEO HERE by Desmond Nugent | Monday, February 24th 2020 | ABC7 LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KATV) — Veterans of the Little Rock Police Department have recently settled a federal discrimination lawsuit…
SETTLED: Federal discrimination lawsuit filed by black LRPD officers by attorney Mike Laux (right). Photo by: Brian Chilson Arkansas Times article by Lindsey Millar on February 10, 2020 The city of Little Rock and one current and three former Little Rock Police officers agreed on Friday to settle a federal discrimination lawsuit filed by the…
Photo Caption: Civil rights attorneys Mike Laux (left) and Benjamin Crump at a press conference in December regarding the Little Rock Police Department’s use of no-knock raids. CREDIT MICHAEL HIBBLEN / KUAR NEWS By MICHAEL HIBBLEN • JUN 14, 2019 on KUAR A civil rights attorney representing several people who claimed they were unfairly targeted…
On what would be James Hartsfield’s 30th birthday, his family filed a lawsuit against the City of Little Rock and the police officer who killed him. Author: David Lippman, THV11 DigitalPublished: 9:55 PM CDT May 13, 2019Updated: 10:58 PM CDT May 13, 2019 James Hartsfield would have turned 30 years old Monday. Instead of celebrating…
Lawyers for those who said Little Rock police have burst into their homes for no reason said they have as many 50 clients and are leveling accusations against the city. Author: Rolly HoytPublished: 5:48 PM CST February 26, 2019Updated: 7:36 PM CST February 26, 2019 LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Lawyers for those who said Little…
Opinion by Radley Balko in The Washington Post Feb. 14, 2019 at 11:57 a.m. PST Last November, I published a long investigative piece about the Little Rock Police Department. The story centered around Josh Hastings, a former LRPD officer who was hired despite lying about, then admitting to having attended a Ku Klux Klan meeting….
Washington Post illustration; Hastings photo by Danny Johnston/Associated Press, Moore photo by Andrea Morales for The Washington Post In Washington Post By Radley Balko NOVEMBER 2, 2018 The Little Rock police shooting of 15-year-old Bobby Moore revealed a horror show of misconduct, cover-up and cascading institutional failure at the department. “All I know is this….
Matthew Glowicki for the Courier Journal More than 10 years after she says she was sexually assaulted, a woman is suing investigators with Louisville Metro Police claiming her case was mishandled and she was repeatedly lied to about its status. “We trusted them,” said Salisa Luster Harrison, who says she was assaulted in her Louisville…
PHOTO CAPTION: JUDGMENT: Laux, attorney Austin Porter Jr. and Sylvia Perkins outside the federal courthouse in Little Rock. BY David Koon ON October 12, 20178:00 am in Arkansas Times Civil rights attorney Mike Laux has spent years taking on the LRPD over fatal shootings of suspects. He isn’t done yet. The fact is, no matter…
