Police Accountability and Use of Force

The clash traces to years of expanded federal immigration enforcement and rising friction between local authorities and federal agents. States and cities have tried criminal probes of on-duty agents in recent years while federal officials have pushed back. That tug-of-war set the stage for protests and confrontations outside immigration facilities that brought one Durango incident into the courts.

An appellate judge freed former NYPD Sgt. Ramon Duran on $300,000 bail while he appeals his conviction for fatally throwing a cooler. The decision came from Appellate Division Judge Saliann Scarpulla in New York. Duran was released after spending about a week at Rikers Island following his sentencing. Conditions of his $300,000 bail require him to surrender his passport to his lawyers until the appeal is resolved.