Civil Rights
Nov. 19, 2025
Open the books on civil-rights settlements
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Adanté Pointer
Co-founder
Pointer & Buelna LLP
Phone: (510) 839-5200
Email: apointer@lawyersftp.com
UC Hastings COL; San Francisco CA
In civil rights cases justice often looks more like accounting and less like accountability.
Take the case of Immanueal Clark. Clark, an unarmed Black man, was killed in 2022 by a Portland Police Bureau officer. Clark, 30, was shot in the back as he fled from a police stop. Officers wrongly believed he was part of an armed robbery that happened a few hours earlier.
A $3.75 million settlement to his family was announced this past August, staving off their civil rights lawsui...
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