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Sixty-eight-year-old African American grandfather Eurie Stamps was lying on his stomach in his own kitchen, his hands above his head, when Officer Paul Duncan shot him dead.
Several leading civil rights groups have today weighed in on a lawsuit stemming from a 2011 SWAT team raid on a Framingham home that killed Eurie Stamps, an unarmed, innocent 68-year-old Black grandfather of 12, who was lying on the floor with his hands up.
In the newest case involving cell site location information (CSLI), the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court today held that the government must get a warrant for anything more than six hours of "telephone call" CSLI.
In a case involving alleged threats on Facebook, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court today applied longstanding constitutional protections to the digital age. Our staff attorney Jessie Rossman had this to say:
The Boston Police Camera Action Team (BPCAT), NAACP Boston Branch, and American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts applaud the announcement by Boston Police Commissioner William Evans that body-wor