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CEDAR RAPIDS A civil trial against the city and a white police officer who shot a Black man during a 2016 traffic stop, leaving him paralyzed, remains on track to start next month in Linn County District Court.
Lawyers for Jerime and Bracken Mitchell, who filed the lawsuit in 2017 after Jerime Mitchell was shot Nov. 1, 2016, had a pretrial conference Friday with lawyers for the city and for Lucas Jones, a former Cedar Rapids police officer.
The lawyers discussed coronavirus precautions during the trial and how many jurors would be summoned for jury selection beginning April 20.
Jury selection is expected to take a week, followed by about three weeks of testimony.
CEDAR RAPIDS - A Cedar Rapids man found out the hard way why it was not such a great idea to leave his vehicle warming up in the cold while he went back inside his apartment to take a shower.
Editor s Note: After video last summer captured the killing of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, protests for social justice reverberated across the country, including in the Corridor. Local governments and school districts made promises about how they would respond to the calls to eliminate systematic racism. Now months later, here are updates on where these public agencies stand.
Sat., January 30, 2021
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This is Stephen Schmidt from the Gazette digital news desk and I’m here with your update for Saturday Jan. 30 and Sunday Jan. 31
If I may offer a brief editorial on the weather before we begin: Black ice on wood steps is no joke. Also, as a related editorial comment: Ouch!