After years of harassment, frustration, and danger, a Milwaukee couple is poised to receive a settlement payment from the City of Milwaukee. The city has agreed to pay the $575,000 settlement for not properly training 20 officers involved.
Milwaukee City Attorney Evan Goyke is recommending that the city pay more than half a million dollars to settle a federal lawsuit over the Milwaukee Police Department repeatedly entering and searching a local author’s home in response to false 911 calls.
A Rhinelander man has filed a federal lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin, alleging seven Oneida County sheriff’s deputies and two city police officers violated his civil rights by engaging in an illegal search and seizure, unreasonable extension of seizure, unlawful arrest and failure to intervene.
Stephanie Rapkin has been awarded a $760,000 settlement after suing Shorewood and Whitefish Bay over her arrest in 2020 where police conducted a search of her home without a warrant. “To our knowledge, this is the largest police misconduct civil rights settlement in Wisconsin that doesn’t involve a death or serious injury,” John Bradley, one of Rapkin’s attorneys, told the Journal Sentinel.
On Monday, Strang Bradley, attorneys for Richards’ family filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against both, Remington and the City Of Tucson “Our goal in filing this lawsuit is to seek some measure of justice on behalf of Mr. Richards and his family,” attorney John Bradley said. “It was a violation of Mr. Richards constitutional rights to be free from unreasonable seizure and to be free from discrimination because of his disability,” Bradley said. “Mr. Remington’s actions were unconscionable, unreasonable and an intentional disregard to Mr. Richards’ rights.”
Filed Monday in federal court on behalf of Richards’ estate, the lawsuit’s wrongful death claim contends Remington never gave Richards warning he was going to shoot him, did not have his pepper spray on him as required and issued by the city and never drew the stun gun he carried. “That Remington fired the first eight shots at the back of Richards as he sat there confined in his wheelchair was unconscionable and disturbing. But the pause after the eighth shot, followed by the ninth shot, evidences Remington’s depraved state of mind and ought to shock the conscience of all human beings,” the lawsuit reads. Richards’ estate is being represented by Strang Bradley, a law firm based out of Madison, Wisc.
A civil rights suit was filed Monday by the family of a 61-year-old man fatally shot in the back by a Tucson police officer last November. In the lawsuit, attorney John H. Bradley wrote that then-Officer Ryan Remington “intentionally” shot Richard Lee Richards in the back as he left the scene of a alleged shoplifting incident riding a motorized scooter, and the officer’s actions were “excessive, unjustifiable, and unnecessary force.” Remington was swiftly fired from the Tucson Police Department after the incident on Tucson’s South Side last year. The 18-page suit names Remington and the city of Tucson as defendants, and claims that Remington violated Richards’ right to be “free from unreasonable seizure.”
The family of a man who was shot and killed by an off-duty Tucson police officer last year has filed a civil rights lawsuit against him and the city of Tucson.
The lawsuit was filed Monday in federal court on behalf of Richard Lee Richards and Victoria Richards, his sister, against Ryan Remington for fatally shooting Richards as he sat in his wheelchair, said John Bradley, attorney for the family and the estate. “Mr. Remington’s actions were unconscionable, unreasonable, and in intentional disregard of Mr. Richards’s rights,” Bradley said.
The sister of a disabled Arizona man who died after being shot multiple times by a police officer while using his wheelchair has sued the officer and city, claiming wrongful death and civil rights violations. Attorneys John Bradley and R. Rick Resch say in a complaint on behalf of Richards’ sister, Victoria Richards, that Richard Lee Richards didn’t have to die that night. “This lawsuit seeks to achieve a measure of justice for Richard Lee Richards and his survivors by establishing the obvious: An officer cannot shoot in the back and kill a slow-moving shoplifting suspect in a wheelchair, without warning, when no one is in imminent danger,” the complaint says.
Strang Bradley files a civil lawsuit on behalf of the family of Richard Lee Richards against the City of Tucson and Ryan Remington, the former Tucson Police Officer who shot and killed Richards in November of 2021. “Mr. Remington’s shooting of Mr. Richards as he sat there in the wheelchair without using or even attempting to use any other method of non-deadly force is a violation of Mr. Richards’ constitutional rights to be free from unreasonable seizure, and to be free from discrimination because of his disability,” said Bradley.
