A federal court jury in San Francisco yesterday found that Humboldt County and city of Eureka law-enforcement officers used excessive force on nonviolent protesters in 1997 when they swabbed them in the eye areas with pepper spray.
It took the jury approximately 11 hours of deliberation to come back with the verdict. The jury awarded each plaintiff only $1.
“It’s incredible,” said Noel Tendick, one of the eight plaintiffs in the case. “The great thing is that they can’t do this to people again. I think they made a bad decision and needed to be held accountable.”
The jurors found that the application of pepper spray to the protesters, the plaintiffs in the case, Lundberg v. County of Humboldt, constituted excessive force and violated the plaintiffs’ Fourth Amendment rights.
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