Usaamah Rahim

A federal judge on Wednesday denied the federal government’s request to drop a civil lawsuit brought by the mother of Usaamah Rahim over his 2015 fatal shooting by an FBI agent and Boston police officer. The ruling clears the way for discovery, the next phase of the lawsuit, in which the sides can request evidence from each other. Rahim’s...

Activists and relatives of people shot by police in Massachusetts held a rally Wednesday at the State House to call for racial justice and for Gov. Charlie Baker to reopen police shooting cases. The event, which began at 5 p.m., came after relatives of loved ones killed by police held a press conference last week to call on Charlie Baker…

Families are calling for police reform and for cases of police brutality in Massachusetts to be reopened.

Family members of men shot by police in Massachusetts called on Gov. Charlie Baker to appoint a special prosecutor to reopen their cases amid a nationwide push for police reform and racial justice. At a press conference at the State House, the relatives announced they would hold a protest march along with the group Mass Action Against Police Brutality...

Family members of three men who were killed by police over the last several years are calling on Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker to help them re-open their cases.