Settlement Reached for $1.95 Million in Charly "Africa" Keunang Case, Two Officers Found Liable
On Thursday, May 10, a federal jury found two LAPD officers liable for their conduct in the shooting death of Charly "Africa" Keunang, an unarmed, mentally ill homeless man who was killed in front of his tent on skid row in March 2015. HSR attorneys Josh Piovia-Scott, Dan Stormer, and Shaleen Shanbhag represented the family of Mr. Keunang in their claim that LAPD officers unreasonably escalated their confrontation with Mr. Keunang, resulting in his death.
HSR Attorney Dan Stormer Argues Before Ninth Circuit in Landmark Case, Dogan v. Barak
On April 12,2018, Dan Stormer argued before the Ninth Circuit court of appeals in the landmark case Dogan v. Barak. In Dogan, the surviving parents of Furkan Dogan--an 18-year old American humanitarian activist murdered by the Israeli military during its 2010 attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla--seek to hold to account then-Minister of Defense Ehud Barak for these violations of international human rights. Attorneys for Defendant Barak and the U.S. Government urged the court to close its doors to Furkan's parents by claiming that foreign government officials are immune for all "official acts," while Dan Stormer highlighted Ninth Circuit precedent establishing that torture and extrajudicial killing can never be official acts.
The December 5, 2017 settlement in the killing of Mharloun Saycon, a mentally ill Fililpino man, is among the largest in Long Beach history for a police brutality case.
