A court in New York found that police officers are not liable for the 1999 shooting of a mentally ill Jewish man in Brooklyn. On Monday, a jury agreed with the city’s argument in a civil trial that Gidone Busch lunged at the police with a hammer, and that the officers had no choice but to react.
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