Lawsuit: Northern Calif. Police Fail To Protect Kids
African-American students in Union City, Calif., are being killed, shot at and racially harassed and local school officials and police officers are doing nothing about it, a lawsuit filed this week claims. The lawsuit accuses Union City police officers of acting slowly following the fatal shooting of a middle school student in December 2007 and a recent incident where eight African-American students were shot at. No arrests have been made in either incident. The mother of the boy who was killed has also filed a civil rights lawsuit against the police department.


