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Florida gov OKs $6M for man paralyzed by deputy shooting

by Associated Press
| June 9, 2020 6:03 PM

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill Tuesday approving a $6 million payment to a black man who was left paralyzed when a sheriff’s deputy mistook his cellphone for a handgun and shot him four times.

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