Statement from Iván Espinoza-Madrigal, the Executive Director of Lawyers for Civil Rights, a legal organization in Boston providing free legal support to people of color, immigrants, and low-income people: At Lawyers for Civil Rights, our commitment to...
Statement on Enrique Delgado Garcia At Lawyers for Civil Rights, we are hearing alarming reports that Enrique Delgado Garcia may have been deliberately targeted due to his Latino identity, as one of the few people of color in the Massachusetts State Police Academy. Mr. Delgado Garcia may have been intentionally paired with a more experienced counterpart...
New Report Shows Dramatic Impact of 1970s-Era “Consent Decree” on Police Diversity in Massachusetts Long-Running Federal Court Oversight to End Soon, Raising Concerns About Backsliding A comprehensive new study released by The Brattle Group analyzes the dramatic impact that a 50-year-old federal court case has had on police diversity throughout...
City of Boston To Pay $4.7 Million To Settle Wrongful Death Lawsuit Brought By Hope Coleman – Whose Son Terrence Was Killed By Boston Police In 2016 Young Black Man Living With Mental Illness Shot After His Mother Called 911 For Medical Assistance Lawyers for Civil Rights (LCR) and Fick & Marx LLP announced a $4.7 million settlement in the federal...
Settlement Reached in Racial Profiling Case Filed By Young Black Man Against Arlington, MA Police Town Agrees To Systemic Reforms And Compensation Donovan Johnson, a young Black man who was stopped, held at gunpoint, and thrown to the ground by police in Arlington, Massachusetts who were chasing a white suspect, has settled...
Making Police Misconduct Investigations Public Enhances Transparency and Accountability Lawyers for Civil Rights (“LCR”) and pro bono counsel from Foley & Lardner LLP filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC), urging the Court to rule that records of police misconduct investigations are public records....
Lawyers for Civil Rights at the 2023 Hispanic National Bar Association (HNBA) convention. LCR’s legal warriors and our community partners will be presenting on a wide range of cutting-edge civil rights and intersectional issues at the upcoming HNBA Conference in Minneapolis on September 6-8, 2023. This is where you can find us during the conference:...
Condemning Gun Violence Across the Commonwealth Gun violence is a plague on the United States, and Massachusetts is far from immune. Shootings on back-to-back days this weekend disrupted Caribbean Festivals in Boston and Worcester, leaving at least ten people injured and local communities of color shaken. Meanwhile, following 21 shooting incidents in...
