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$850,000 Federal Jury Award in Indiana Police Beating Suit

Loaded on Nov. 15, 2011

Filed under: Vision, Police, Excessive Force (Police). Location: Indiana.

On April 14, 2011, an Indiana federal jury awarded $850,000 to a man beaten by police during arrest.

According to court papers, Percy Perry was trying to take a window out of an abandoned building in Gary, Indiana when the police arrived. Perry ran from Corporeal Anthony Blood and Officer …

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