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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Via AP news wire

Judge refuses to toss excessive force claims in man's death

Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

A federal judge has refused to throw out a lawsuit's claims that police on Maryland’s Eastern Shore used excessive force on a 19-year-old Black man who died in 2018 during a struggle with officers who handcuffed him and shackled his legs.

Relatives of Anton Black sued the officers who chased him and tried to restrain him outside his family's home in rural Greensboro, Maryland.

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