Officers taped beating boy get $3m damages
 

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A Los Angeles jury has awarded more than $3 million to two white policemen accused of involvement in the videotaped beating of a black teenage suspect, officials said today.

Sacked former police officer Jeremy Morse had alleged he was treated unfairly when he was terminated from the Inglewood Police Department, while his partner claimed his 10-day suspension over the incident was excessive.

The mayor of the city of Inglewood, Roosevelt Dorn, slammed the awards as "outrageous".

Morse was tried twice on criminal charges stemming from the July 2002 incident that stirred racial tensions in ethnically diverse Los Angeles and raised the spectre of the 1992 Rodney King police assault and ensuing riots....

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$3 Million for beating a black guy..

Already posted...ofcourse.