A new lawsuit filed in federal court last month alleges that the Baton Rouge Police Department ran a “torture warehouse” where members of its Street Crimes Unit strip searched, beat, and otherwise humiliated people and then released them, often without their being charged with a crime. Soon after the lawsuit was filed, the FBI opened a civil rights investigation into the allegations of misconduct at the now-shuttered warehouse known as “the BRAVE Cave.”

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      9 months ago

      Yeah what a stupid headline

      In 2017, however, BRAVE’s funding from the DOJ’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention was not extended because of concerns about East Baton Rouge Parish’s administration of the grant

      “Police program abuses federal funding and goes rogue once funding is pulled, committing civil rights violations”