Civil Rights/Police Brutality Cases Attorney in Minneapolis, Minnesota

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Well a civil rights violation – and a lot of people have a misconception about this – is really a government act or a state act who does something, who does a wrong that’s in violation of one of our rights secure under the Constitution. Usually those enumerated in the Bill of Rights, like excessive force is an unreasonable search and seizure under the Fourth Amendment. If it’s a prisoner, it’s an Eight Amendment, cruel and unusual punishment. For example, if they don’t give them medical treatment. So it’s that kind of, but your boss for example in an employment relationship can’t violate your civil rights and your neighbor can’t and it has to be somebody acting under the color of state law, usually like in a uniform or a probation officer or a school official or some sort of county official. But it’s the official government act that is wrong and in violation of our Constitution.

Minneapolis attorney Robert Bennett explains what a civil rights violation is.

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