Criminal Justice & the Rule of Law

Lawfare Live: Reforming Civil Settlements for Police Misconduct

Bryce Klehm
Wednesday, March 31, 2021, 10:25 AM

Join us for a discussion about reforming civil settlements for police misconduct. 

A BORTAC unit from the Department of Homeland Security deploys tear gas in front of a Portland federal courthouse, July 22, 2020. (Wikimedia/Tedder; CC BY-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)

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This Thurdsay, April 1, at 2 p.m. EST, Rashawn Ray, David M. Rubenstein Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, will join Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes for a live taping of the Lawfare Podcast that will discuss reforming civil settlements for police misconduct. Their conversation comes after George Floyd’s family was awarded a record $27 million settlement from the city of Minneapolis and during the trial of Derek Chauvin, the police officer who has been charged with Floyd’s murder.



Bryce Klehm is a first year law student at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He is a former associate editor at Lawfare.

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