
Campbell v. City of Chicago
Abdication of Civil Rights OversightThe MacArthur Justice Center formed a coalition of attorneys, community organizations and individuals to file a historic class action lawsuit seeking federal court oversight of the Chicago Police Department’s (CPD) operations on behalf of thousands of individuals, predominately Blacks and Latinx, who have been subjected to the CPD’s policy and practice of using excessive force, sometimes in racially discriminatory and brutal ways.
The Campbell Plaintiffs include four individuals and 10 community-based organizational plaintiffs: Black Lives Matter Chicago, Chicago Urban League, Blocks Together, Brighton Park Neighborhood Council, Justice for Families – Black Lives Matter Chicago, Network 49, Women’s All Points Bulletin, 411 Movement for Pierre Loury, and the West Side Branch and Illinois State Conference of the NAACP.
Filed - June 14, 2017