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Linden settles false arrest lawsuit for $85,000: Local man claims he was jailed for six days after being mistakenly identified in high-speed chase.

On April 19, 2023, the City of Linden (Union County, NJ) agreed to pay $85,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a local man who said he was falsely arrested and jailed for six days. The man claimed he was wrongfully accused of leading police on a high-speed chase when he was actually at work. […]

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Elizabeth paid $99,500 to settle a false arrest lawsuit filed by a diabetic man who claimed that police mistook him for a drunk driver.

At its April 11, 2023 meeting, the Elizabeth City Council (Union County, NJ) resolved to pay $99,500 to settle a false arrest lawsuit filed by a Linden man who claimed that police failed to recognize that he was in diabetic shock and arrested him as a drunk driver instead of calling for emergency medical treatment. […]

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Trenton tentatively agrees to pay $575,000 to settle suit filed by man who died after 2015 encounter with city police.

A March 29, 2023 signed release indicates that the City of Trenton (Mercer County, NJ) has tentatively agreed to pay $575,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by the estate of a man who died after having allegedly been pepper-sprayed repeatedly and beaten by police and improperly placed in a four-point, hard restraint by hospital staff. […]

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Bound Brook paid $675,000 to settle a man’s claim that he was “viciously assaulted” by police in 2015.

On March 7, 2023, the Borough of Bound Brook (Somerset County, NJ) agreed to pay $675,000 to settle an excessive force lawsuit filed by a Rahway man who claimed that four Borough police officers “violently punched” him in the face numerous times while his hands were cuffed behind his back. In his lawsuit, Alfred Lawson […]