N.Y. Police Shooting Case Revived Week After Floyd’s Death (1)

The family of Kenneth Chamberlain Sr., a black, mentally ill man killed in his White Plains, N.Y., apartment during a police confrontation in 2011, had its civil rights claims of excessive force reinstated by the Second Circuit on Monday.

“Instead of treating Chamberlain as a critically ill patient, the officers acted as though he were a criminal suspect,” the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit said.

The decision, which overturned a trial court’s grant of immunity to the officers, comes the Monday after the May 25 death of Minneapolis resident George Floyd during another police incident. That incident ...