The City of New York has yet to determine whether it will appeal a Brooklyn jury’s $25.2 million award to a man who was left paralyzed after he was shot during a 2009 arrest by a New York police sergeant.
The jury on March 13 found that Sgt. Sean O’Brien used excessive force in his arrest of plaintiff Eugene Sims and that Sims had been falsely arrested, according to VerdictSearch, an affiliate of the Law Journal.
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