Examples of false arrest in a Sentence
He's suing the police for false arrest.
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Newark Mayor Ras Baraka filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against interim U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba and a Homeland Security (DHS) official, alleging false arrest and defamation stemming from his detainment outside an immigration detention facility last month.
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Nick Mordowanec
amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 June 2025
Even worse, inaccurate matches by facial recognition technology systems run by police departments elsewhere have led to false arrests in other cities.
—Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 23 May 2025
Sotomayor said a Secret Service agent who mistakenly arrested someone while protecting the president deserved protection from a claim of false arrest.
—Bart Jansen, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2025
On Tuesday, an attorney for Martin will go before the U.S. Supreme Court to ask the justices to reinstate her 2019 lawsuit against the U.S. government accusing the agents of assault and battery, false arrest and other violations.
—Arkansas Online, 28 Apr. 2025
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Nick Mordowanec
amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 June 2025
Even worse, inaccurate matches by facial recognition technology systems run by police departments elsewhere have led to false arrests in other cities.
—Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 23 May 2025
Sotomayor said a Secret Service agent who mistakenly arrested someone while protecting the president deserved protection from a claim of false arrest.
—Bart Jansen, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2025
On Tuesday, an attorney for Martin will go before the U.S. Supreme Court to ask the justices to reinstate her 2019 lawsuit against the U.S. government accusing the agents of assault and battery, false arrest and other violations.
—Arkansas Online, 28 Apr. 2025
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“False arrest.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/false%20arrest. Accessed 11 Jun. 2025.
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