Jurors have awarded $3,500 to a woman who was shocked three times with a stun gun after a St. Louis, Mo., march protesting police misconduct.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that jurors found in favor of University City School Board president Kristine Hendrix on Thursday on one battery count of her civil suit against Officer Stephen Ogunjobi. They found in favor of Ogunjobi on an assault count and in favor of Officer Louis Wilson on separate counts of assault and battery. They did not award Hendrix any punitive damages.
Her suit says she was standing on a sidewalk in 2015 when she was shocked and arrested. She said she was not resisting police and could not comply with officers’ orders because her right arm was pinned beneath her.
Lawyers for the officers said Hendrix tried to walk away from police and did not comply when Wilson tried to handcuff her. She previously was acquitted of resisting arrest and impeding traffic after a judge ruled she wasn’t given an opportunity to comply with officers’ commands before being stunned.
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