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Man blinded by bean bag during Cleveland racial protest sues
By Mark Gillispie - Associated Press
CLEVELAND (AP) A man hit in the face with a bean bag that left him blind in one eye during a racial injustice protest in downtown Cleveland a year ago has sued the sheriff’s deputy who shot him.
Attorneys for John Sanders, 25, of Sandusky, filed the complaint in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court on Saturday, the day before the one-year anniversary of a Black Lives Matter protest organized in the wake of George Floyd’s slaying in Minneapolis.
“The injuries inflicted upon Sanders were part and parcel of a long history of inhumane treatment of citizens” by the Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Office, the lawsuit said.
CLEVELAND, Ohio – The looming relaxation of some of Ohio’s coronavirus-related restrictions isn’t likely to drastically change how court proceedings look in several Northeast Ohio courthouses. Officials at common pleas courts in Cuyahoga, Lorain, Medina and Summit counties say that they plan to keep in place most of the safety measures they have been operating under since the onset of the .
CLEVELAND, Ohio A Cleveland Municipal Court judge on Thursday had to scrap the court’s first scheduled jury trial since the coronavirus pandemic began because not enough people showed up for jury duty. Only 12 of the 75 people the court summoned for jury duty reported to the Justice Center on Thursday morning, leaving the court with too few potential jurors to seat a jury, Judge Suzan .