Allen Yates
Jackie Gardina“When he sued the sheriff’s department, no lawyer would take his case and he resorted to representing himself.”
Professor Joanna Schwartz, author of Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable, writes that one of the barriers to holding police accountable is finding lawyers with the expertise and willingness to bring the case.
It is one of *many* barriers erected by the courts that allow police misconduct to go unaddressed.
