A former Rochester Police Department investigator is suing the city for allegedly retaliating against him for reporting police misconduct and cooperating with investigations.

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The city of Rochester has agreed to pay $75,000 to settle a federal lawsuit accusing city police officers of using excessive force.

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A tentative settlement has been reached in a federal lawsuit accusing Rochester police of assaulting a 13-year-old boy.

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A Rochester woman has filed a federal lawsuit accusing Rochester police of false arrest and malicious prosecution.

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A Rochester man has filed a federal lawsuit claiming city police illegally entered his apartment and retaliated after an internal police investigation concluded the police actions were improper. Lawyers for Edward Goolsby Jr. filed the complaint Monday in U.S. District ...

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The New York Civil Liberties Union in partnership with the law firm of Shearman & Sterling LLP filed an Article 78 proceeding against the Rochester Police Department for constructively denying the NYCLU’s requests for records related to police misconduct under ...

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Lawyers for the city of Rochester have reached a tentative settlement with a man who sued the city and the Rochester Police Department after an officer fatally shot the man’s dog in his home. Officer Joseph Perrone killed the pit ...

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A Rochester resident has filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Rochester and two Rochester police officers for shooting her dog. The plaintiff, Marianne Anniszkiewicz, claims that officer Brian Cala and Sgt. Jennifer Trenton entered the fenced-in yard of ...

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U.S. Marshals and Rochester police on Tuesday arrested a man wanted for allegedly assaulting a Rochester police officer. Chezere Campbell, 30, is accused of injuring a police officer in an incident on Nov. 2 when two officers tried to arrest ...

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A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a convicted killer accusing Rochester police officers of excessive force because they shot him when he was arrested. On June 24, 2013, Ralph D. Strong Jr., 36, fatally shot Jahmia Singleton, ...

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A Rochester man has filed a federal lawsuit claiming he was falsely arrested by Rochester Police who hit him and sprayed him with mace. Quentin Keene claims in a 58-page complaint filed Monday in state Supreme Court that he was ...

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The city of Rochester, Police Chief Michael Ciminelli and several officers have been named in a police brutality suit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court. Dudley T. Scott, who was a 33-year-old college student at the time of the alleged ...

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