Alongside the Stern Community Lawyering Clinic at Kline School of Law at Drexel University, the ACLU of Pennsylvania sent a letter of complaint to the United Nations, detailing the use of violence and excessive force by police against Black Lives Matter protesters in May and June of 2020.

The Philadelphia Police Department, at the request of the family of Walter Wallace, Jr., has released body camera footage of Mr. Wallace’s killing at the hands of police on October 26. 

In the wake of the killing of Walter Wallace, Jr., the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania, in collaboration with the national ACLU, today demanded that city officials divest from the Philadelphia Police Department and invest in community-based services and responses for people in crisis.

On Monday afternoon, city police officers shot and killed 27-year-old Walter Wallace, Jr., in a West Philadelphia neighborhood. The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania issued a statement in response to Mr. Wallace’s death.

The ACLU of PA, the law firm of Kairys, Rudovsky, Messing, Feinberg & Lin, and Seth Kreimer of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, released a new round of reports under a 2011 consent decree that requires the city of Philadelphia to cease unconstitutional stop-and-frisk practices. 

HARRISBURG - The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania announced today that it has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the borough of Jim Thorpe in Carbon County and two police officers over a traffic stop that occurred in February 2018.

HARRISBURG - The family of Osaze Osagie announced today that it intends to file a notice of claim against the State College Police Department and the police officers who killed their son.

PHILADELPHIA - An investigation published by Buzzfeed News today reveals that hundreds of officers in the Philadelphia Police Department have used Facebook as a platform for celebrating police violence and demeaning people in the communities where they work, especially people of color.