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Court in WVa police excessive force suit: 'This has to stop'

by Associated Press
| June 11, 2020 10:27 AM

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court has vacated part of a finding that cleared five West Virginia police officers on qualified immunity grounds in an excessive force lawsuit, which was filed by the estate of a homeless black man shot 22 times.

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