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/ Officer Lucas Jones' dash cam video showed his traffic stop and shooting of Jerime Mitchell on Nov. 1, 2016. The City of Cedar Rapids’ insurance carrier has agreed to pay an $8 million settlement to Jerime Mitchell, a Black man who became paralyzed from the neck down when a white police officer shot him during a traffic stop in 2016. Mitchell and his wife, Bracken Mitchell, filed a lawsuit against Cedar Rapids and police officer Lucas Jones four years ago, and the trial was scheduled to begin Tuesday. The lawsuit accused Jones of an “unprovoked attack” on Mitchell, and alleged Jones ...

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 sele...