A jury has awarded at least $2.2 million to a protester who was shot in the face with a less-lethal munition by a Los Angeles sheriff’s deputy during a demonstration against police brutality in 2020

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    21 days ago

    The criminal who assaulted him has not been named, charged, or apparently discouraged in any way from committing further crimes while wearing a government-issue badge.

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    21 days ago

    I thought that collective punishment was against the geneva convention. Why are we all having to pay for what those corrupt pigs did?