A federal jury has awarded a mentally disabled Long Island man and his parents $8.32 million after police used a stun gun on the man four times inside his home in 2010.
The verdict, handed down by an eight-person jury after trial in the Eastern District, included findings of liability on six different counts: excessive force, unlawful entry/trespass, false imprisonment, failure to intervene, municipal liability and gross negligence. The jury deliberated for slightly more than a day.
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