ACLU LA.: FIFTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS STRIKES DOWN EAST JEFFERSON LEVEE DISTRICT POLICE OFFICERS' QUALIFIED IMMUNITY CLAIM
March 01, 2024
March 01, 2024
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, March 2 -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana issued the following news release:
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of Ms. Deanna Thomas, an unhoused 56-year-old woman was handcuffed, violently thrown on the ground, and kneeled on by East Jefferson Levee District Police Department officers while being arrested for residing on a levee in Kenner, LA. The officers also seized and destroyed Ms. Thomas's property including her birth . . .
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of Ms. Deanna Thomas, an unhoused 56-year-old woman was handcuffed, violently thrown on the ground, and kneeled on by East Jefferson Levee District Police Department officers while being arrested for residing on a levee in Kenner, LA. The officers also seized and destroyed Ms. Thomas's property including her birth . . .