BALTIMORE (AP) — A man who said a beating by city police left him paralyzed from the waist down has been awarded $2 million by a jury.
Horace Muhammad, 52, won the judgment against officer Joseph Tracy after a three-week trial in Baltimore Circuit Court.
"His life has been devastated," his attorney Samuel M. Shapiro said. "I think the $2 million award will allow him to live with a little bit of dignity and allow him to be a little self-sufficient."
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Muhammad said the beating occurred after police came to his fiance's house in response to a domestic-violence call in 1997. He followed police instruction to leave and went to a nearby friend's house, but was thrown down onto that home's porch and beaten by officers, Shapiro said.