The officers are accused of using a stun gun on the victims.
"I guarantee you if this was someone in a Mercedes-Benz in a million-dollar home and this was a white woman, this would not have happened, and we all know that," said the attorney for the family of Yolanda Ramirez, who died following an interaction with police.
For the first time, we're seeing video of Brentwood police arresting Yolanda Ramirez outside her sister's home before she died. Sylvia, the 72-year-old's sister, says she called police for a family dispute, but didn't want her sister to be arrested.
According to the claim filed, a Brentwood police officer violently struck Yolanda Ramirez's head on the window of the patrol car and possibly slammed her legs in the car door before leaving her unattended.
The FBI has fired agents who were photographed kneeling during a racial justice protest in Washington that followed the 2020 death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers, people familiar with the matter said Friday.
The former Louisville, Kentucky, police officer convicted of a civil rights offense in the death of Breonna Taylor was sentenced to 33 months in prison on Monday.