Jury rejects lawsuit after police fatally shoot man when going to wrong house

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Jury rejects lawsuit after police fatally shoot man when going to wrong house


Ismael Lopez, 41, was shot and killed by law enforcement officers in July 2017




Lopez’s widow was seeking $20 million in compensation
(AP)


A federal court jury in Oxford, Mississippi, has ruled against a civil lawsuit filed by the widow of a man who was shot dead in 2017 by two police officers, while serving a warrant at the wrong address.

Claudia Linares was seeking $20m in compensation for the death of her husband Ismael Lopez, 41.

During the four-day trial that concluded on Thursday 15 September, the jury ruled that Southaven officers, Zachary Durden and Samuel Maze, did not violate Lopez’s civil rights.

“The verdict was that the jurors did not believe that the use of force used by Officers Durden and Maze was excessive in light of all the facts that they considered,” Murray Wells, the attorney for Lopez’s family, said in a statement to WREG-TV.

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kt comments:

After all, the police did say sorry lah