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Chicago Pays $4.95 Million to Family of Prisoner Who Died After Police Beating
Loaded on March 9, 2017
by Lonnie Burton
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2017, page 28
Filed under:
Police Misconduct,
Police--Excessive Force,
Excessive Force (Police).
Location:
Illinois.
In April 2016, the City of Chicago agreed to pay $4.95 million to the estate of a man who was brutally beaten by police officers while in custody in 2012. The settlement came after a federal judge ruled that police had used excessive and “brute force” without cause and in ...
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