An Epidemic of Brutality: Oakland Filmmaker Feels Police Wrath

 "Police abuse incidents have cost Oakland millions of dollars in lawsuit settlements in the past decade alone. Settlements include the $1.25-million paid in 2006 to settle 59 lawsuits arising from police beating anti-war protestors three years earlier and the $10.9-million paid in 2003 to settle a class action lawsuit against four officers who beat and/or falsely arrested 119 people."