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Post by Shuftin on Feb 14, 2007 2:50:14 GMT -5
CHICAGO The city of Chicago has agreed to pay five-point-25 (m) million dollars to settle a federal lawsuit filed by the family of a police shooting victim. Twenty-year-old Cornelius Ware was shot to death by police during a traffic stop outside his home in 2003. The out-of-court settlement follows a verdict Friday by a federal jury, which found the city liable for Ware's death. Attorney Jon Loevy says the jury rejected the testimony of four police officers who swore they saw Ware point a gun at one of them. A gun was found in the car, which Loevy argued was planted after the shooting. The family contended in its lawsuit that Ware, a paraplegic, was unarmed when he was fatally wounded. A police roundtable convened after the shooting found the officers acted properly in firing their weapons. www.wqad.com/Global/story.asp?S=6076619&nav=1sW7
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