
The American Civil Liberties Union said in a lawsuit filed Thursday that a 10-year-old boy suffered a concussion when a D.C. police officer slammed the boy's head into a cafeteria lunch table while at the child's elementary school.

A civil lawsuit that claims two Metropolitan Police Department officers illegally seized a man's camera phone this summer has prompted a criminal investigation of one of the officers by the U.S. attorney's office, according to recent court filings.
A pair of Metropolitan Police Department officers illegally seized a man's camera phone after the man photographed officers trying to intimidate witnesses of an arrest, the D.C. chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union said in a lawsuit filed Wednesday.