Officer who beat boy gets $1.6m
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A Los Angeles policeman filmed hitting a black teenager is awarded $1.6m in a race discrimination case.
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One of the youngest-ever accused  murderers, a 7-year-old boy who was wrongly charged with a  girl's death in 1998, was paid $2 million to settle his  family's lawsuit by Chicago's city council on Tuesday.
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A senior police official was found guilty Monday of ordering another officer to threaten violence against a suspect in a frantic attempt to find a German banker&#39;s missing son.
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TENINO, Wash. - It was just a little stun gun fun, but a police officer who demonstrated his Taser by zapping a willing subject in the genitals has drawn a warning from his bosses.  Officer Randy Reynolds ran into trouble when video of the incident last spring was posted on YouTube.com.
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One of four U.S. military officers in Afghanistan alleged to have murdered a local man they believed was following their movements was issued an official reprimand.
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A police officer suspected of assaulting a handcuffed 16-year-old boy in a partially videotaped attack at a police station was arrested Thursday, authorities said.
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The District has agreed to pay $650,000 to the family of a patient at St. Elizabeths Hospital who gouged out his eyes while under the city's care, officials said yesterday.
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How a ticket led to 1 year in prison.
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A federal judge awarded $3.1 million Tuesday to the family of a man who was killed by fugitive mobster James "Whitey" Bulger, ruling that the federal government is liable for the man's death because his identity was leaked to Bulger by a rogue FBI agent.
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The city will pay $1.43 million to settle claims by a black firefighter who said he suffered harassment and discrimination after co-workers served him spaghetti laced with dog food, officials announced Friday.
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Authorities arrested a man for allegedly kidnapping and attacking a police officer, but after an investigation they released the suspect and put the officer behind bars.
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Â· Man had to be stopped, says commander Â· Agitation displayed by victim added to suspicion
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The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington said yesterday that it has reached a $1.3 million settlement with 16 men who were sexually abused by priests between 1962 and 1982.
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The man leading the fight against drug  cheats in sport said on Monday he wanted a further $1.5 million  in funding to help stamp out substance abuse.
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The first American civilian to be charged with mistreating a detainee during the wars prompted by the Sept. 11 attacks was sentenced Tuesday to nearly 8 1/2 years in prison for beating a man in Afghanistan who later died.
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A judge has thrown out an assault charge against a white policeman whose scuffle with a black high school student was caught on videotape, ruling that the use of force was justified.
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Rapper The Game appeared in a New York  court on Thursday, charged with impersonating a police officer  but a judge ruled that those charges would be dismissed in six  months if he stays out of trouble.