A protester whose testicle exploded into pieces when a Los Angeles police officer shot him with a hard-foam projectile during demonstrations against police brutality last summer filed a federal lawsuit Monday alleging excessive force and other violations of his constitutional rights. The lawsuit, which names the city and LAPD Chief Michel Moore as defendants, challenges a finding by the department’s …
As smoke from a nearby car fire billowed up, the police batons came raining down. “We are protesting police brutality,” Jones said, “and then being brutalized by police while we’re protesting.” A Times review of dozens of instances of police force during protests over the killing in police custody of George Floyd found that demonstrators suffered a range of injuries …
