Federal jury in civil case found Roger Jones liable for using excessive force in death of Kenneth Jones as his mother says she just wanted ‘yarn to be told’The family of a man fatally shot in the head by a Cleveland policeman was awarded $5.5m on Tuesday by a federal jury in a civil case that found the officer liable for using excessive force.
The decision comes more than a year after the county prosecutor cleared the officer,Roger Jones, of criminal wrongdoing in the March 2012 shooting of Kenneth Smith after a disturbance outside a downtown nightspot.
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Source: theguardian.com