Wrongful Death

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Bakari Sellers, theGrio.com
August 4, 2022
Lason Butler, 27, died of acute dehydration after nearly two weeks in jail following his arrest for misdemeanor traffic violations.
May 17, 2022
Nylah Anderson died in December during the dare, which gets social media users to try to choke themselves until they…
May 12, 2022
Deborah McBride, the late inmate’s mother, said her teenage son had a normal life expectancy before dying in jail last…
April 26, 2022
Tyre Sampson, the 14-year-old boy visiting ICON Park in Orlando with his football team, fell from its Free Fall attraction…
March 6, 2022
Eric DeValkenaere, the former officer convicted of fatally shooting a Black man in 2019, has been sentenced to six years…
Darren Boykin, theGrio.com
September 2, 2021
Darren Boykin died in 2019 after officers in Texarkana, Texas arrested him as a suspect in a series of petty…
George Floyd thegrio.com
June 30, 2020
New York attorney Rakim Brooks breaks down the powerful role of insurers in the fight against police brutality across the…
March 20, 2017
A jury in the wrongful death trial for the death of 25-year-old Ortanzso Bovell awarded $2.5 million to Bovell's mother.
July 21, 2016
Wenona Hauser Small, whose husband, Delrawn Small, was killed by a police officer in a road rage incident on July 4,
December 29, 2015
Antonio LeGrier, the father of Quintonio LeGrier, is suing the city of Chicago over the recent police shooting that left…
November 25, 2015
DENVER (AP) — Six Denver sheriff's deputies are on restricted duty while authorities investigate an incident at the downtown jail…
July 13, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City reached a settlement Monday with the family of Eric Garner for $5.9 million,…
July 13, 2015
theGRIO REPORT - The family of Eric Garner has reportedly refused the offer of a $5 million settlement from the…
April 2, 2015
theGRIO REPORT - A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed by the family of 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones against a Detroit…
February 14, 2015
theGrio REPORT - A Connecticut medical student died while in police custody, and while the death has been ruled a…
November 20, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - Jail staffers thought that inmate Rodney Graham was detoxing from illegal drugs. Instead, he was dying of…
October 8, 2014
This week, the family of Eric Garner, the New York resident who died while being arrested by the NYPD, filed
September 2, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - A high school football practice took a tragic turn Monday. Junior defensive tackle Miles Kirkland-Thomas collapsed and…
October 23, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Theresa Rudd wants answers. More specifically, she wants to know the truth as to how her son,…
September 19, 2013
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lawyers for concert promoter AEG Live LLC rested their defense Wednesday with testimony from a longtime…