{"id":222771,"date":"2026-03-16T23:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T23:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/222771\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T23:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T23:07:08","slug":"fresno-fails-to-defeat-homeless-mans-lawsuit-over-his-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/222771\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno Fails to Defeat Homeless Man\u2019s Lawsuit Over His Arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Fresno, Calif., its mayor, and some local police officers must continue facing claims from a homeless man who alleges the city unlawfully initiated retaliatory criminal proceedings against him for objecting to his homeless encampment being dismantled. <\/p>\n<p>Lewis Dewane Brown\u2019s complaint sufficiently questions whether Fresno police officers had probable cause to arrest him, adequately alleges that the officers used excessive force against him under federal and state law, retaliatorily prosecuted him under federal law, placed him under false arrest, and subjected him to negligent conduct, Judge Jennifer L. Thurston said in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberglaw.com\/public\/document\/BrownvCityofFresnoetalDocketNo122cv00216EDCalFeb212022CourtDocket?doc_id=X2OO96KLQ419GPQLKILBHGD75KV\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">order<\/a> on March 13. The US &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The city of Fresno, Calif., its mayor, and some local police officers must continue facing claims from a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[37050,75231,101703,112,114,113,17432,101701,101702,101700],"class_list":["post-222771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-dismissal","tag-drug-possession","tag-false-arrest","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-law-enforcement-officers","tag-negligence","tag-pleading-requirements","tag-probable-cause"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}