Civil Rights Attorney

1 00:00:03.657 --> 00:00:06.786 A civil rights case is when your constitutional rights 2 00:00:06.787 --> 00:00:08.200 have been violated. 3 00:00:08.557 --> 00:00:13.914 We see those cases in excessive force in police misconduct cases, 4 00:00:14.100 --> 00:00:21.339 and we have successfully prosecuted many cases involving law enforcement 5 00:00:21.471 --> 00:00:26.186 who've gone beyond the bounds of lawful behavior 6 00:00:26.771 --> 00:00:30.443 and ultimately injured someone, even including death, 7 00:00:31.943 --> 00:00:34.929 violating an individual's constitutional rights. 8 00:00:35.643 --> 00:00:40.040 Civil rights cases are also ones involving discrimination. 9 00:00:40.700 --> 00:00:45.960 Someone who's at work who's being discriminated against unlawfully. 10 00:00:46.114 --> 00:00:48.800 We're there to try and prosecute their case. 11 00:00:49.200 --> 00:00:51.586 If you suspect that you have a civil rights case, 12 00:00:51.600 --> 00:00:54.171 one of your first calls needs to be to a lawyer. 13 00:00:54.843 --> 00:00:57.300 Most often, it's going to involve government, 14 00:00:57.643 --> 00:01:04.586 which means that your story is not going to be believed often. 15 00:01:04.857 --> 00:01:08.629 It's often secondary to whatever the story is 16 00:01:08.757 --> 00:01:10.557 from the government actor. 17 00:01:11.243 --> 00:01:13.943 In the case of police misconduct, 18 00:01:14.443 --> 00:01:19.257 an individual will oftentimes be accused of a crime 19 00:01:19.871 --> 00:01:24.035 when actually the crime that has occurred is the violation 20 00:01:24.235 --> 00:01:27.000 of an individual's constitutional rights. 21 00:01:27.300 --> 00:01:32.600 It's important to have an attorney in what you suspect to be a civil rights case, 22 00:01:32.814 --> 00:01:37.071 because the odds are already against you. 23 00:01:37.857 --> 00:01:42.130 A governmental entity has done something to you, 24 00:01:42.457 --> 00:01:47.743 like a police force and so they're already getting ready 25 00:01:47.957 --> 00:01:53.586 to protect themselves and to blame you for whatever has happened. 26 00:01:54.429 --> 00:01:58.958 The only way that you can hold a governmental agency accountable 27 00:01:59.158 --> 00:02:04.029 like that is to have an attorney who's willing to ask the tough questions 28 00:02:04.071 --> 00:02:07.600 and demand answers as to what happened 29 00:02:08.243 --> 00:02:10.143 and hold people accountable.