Eyewitnesses say police used excessive force arresting Gray even though he did not appear to resist arrest, and that they ignored his requests for medical attention.
The city was still recovering from the arrest and beating of Rodney King, in 1991, and the police there faced "charges of excessive force, false arrests, and unreasonable searches and seizures," Bratton said.
The Inter-Parliamentary Union, an affiliate of the UN set up to promote democracy, said it had firsthand evidence of human rights abuses against 19 opposition MPs including allegations of excessive violence, arbitrary arrests, intimidation and politically motivated criminal charges.
Federal authorities also determined that the department had engaged in a pattern of excessive force, false arrests and unreasonable searches, especially of members of minorities, because of poor training and insufficient protocols.
A representative of the UN's permanent forum on indigenous issues, an advisory group, has been collecting testimony from Dakota Access pipeline protesters who have raised concerns about excessive force, unlawful arrests and mistreatment in jail where some activists have been held in cages.
Excessive force, false arrests and other abuses by the Newark police are so rampant that the federal government should investigate and appoint a monitor to oversee the department, a civil liberties group charges in a petition it plans to file on Thursday.
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But I've seen stuff happen to other people, such as excessive force during arrests.
The United States Department of Justice announced on May 9 that it is opening a civil rights investigation into whether the Newark police engaged in "systematic violations of the constitution," including excessive force, false arrests, discriminatory policing and violations of the rights of detainees under McCarthy's leadership.
But when about 100 Latino congregants, overcoming fears about their safety and in some cases their immigration status, came forward, it marked the turning point in what became a major case of racial profiling, in which four East Haven police officers were arrested last week on federal charges of conspiracy, false arrest, excessive force and obstruction of justice.
