Contact: Erin Gaffney 781-738-4221 egaffney@groupgordon.com Luna Droubi 212-277-5875 ldroubi@blhny.com New York, New York, November 26, 2024 – The NYC Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB) completed its investigation into the conduct of the police officers who in 2023 shot and grievously wounded Raul de la Cruz, a Bronx man, while he experienced a mental health crisis. The CCRB inquiry substantiated charges of excessive force and discrimination, the same claims which ar

New York, NY - Today, BLH joins Ben Crump Law and the People's Law Office in filing a historic lawsuit against the government on behalf of Malcolm X and his family alleging that various government agencies and individuals, including the FBI, CIA, and NYPD, played a role in the conspiracy leading to Malcolm X’s assassination and engaged in a decades-long cover-up that deprived his family of justice. The suit seeks accountability for the harm caused by the alleged unlawful and

On September 23, 2024, the Hon. Analisa Torres, a federal court judge in the NYPD stop-and-frisk cases, published an unprecedented and detailed report reviewing the NYPD’s disciplinary system . Judge Torres ordered that the Discipline Report be put together as part of the landmark federal monitorship overseeing reforms to the NYPD’s unconstitutional use of stop-and-frisk, trespass enforcement, and racial profiling during pedestrian encounters. The Discipline Report was writte