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Samira Asma-Sadeque and agencies

Ohio jury orders police officer to pay $4.4m to family of Black man he killed

Police officer in court.
Matthew Rhodes shot Luke Stewart in Euclid, Ohio, in March 2017. Photograph: Cory Shaffer/AP

An Ohio jury has ordered that a white police officer must pay $4.4m in compensatory damages to the family of a Black man the officer killed after approaching him while the man was sleeping.

Officer Matthew Rhodes “climbed” into the car of Luke Stewart, 23, as he was asleep on a street in Euclid, Ohio, in March 2017, according to reports.

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