Jury awards $1 million in excessive-force lawsuit against Austin Police Department
A federal jury has awarded $1 million in an excessive-force lawsuit to a man Austin police punched in the face and used a Taser on during a 2011 arrest on a charge that was later dismissed.
The jury late Thursday found that Austin police officer Russell Rose was fully liable for the injuries and future pain caused during Carlos Chacon’s arrest, which his attorney says caused about $5,000 in injuries. The jury granted immunity for the other officer sued, Eric Copeland.
The federal suit began trial began on Monday in front of a jury of seven. The jury delivered the verdict at about 6 p.m. after deliberating for a day and a half finding that the officers violated Chacon’s Fourth Amendment rights during his arrest in April 2011.
“I think it’s fair,” said Broadus Spivey, one of Chacon’s attorneys. “If I were on the jury I would have awarded him even more money.”
Read more: http://www.statesman.com/news/news/local/jury-awards-1-million-in-excesive-force-lawsuit-ag/nkP2B/
[font color=green]The police were responding to a telephone call made by the man who was beaten. Th beaten man believed that another man had a gun and threatened him.[/font]
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