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A federal judge has sharply reduced the $11.5 million dollar judgment awarded to the mother of Cordale Handy, who was killed by St. Paul police in 2017. U.S. District Judge David Doty called the $10 million in compensatory damages that were part of the jury’s verdict “patently excessive,” and cut the total amount of the award to $4 million.
A federal jury on Monday found St. Paul police officer Nathaniel Younce civilly liable for the fatal shooting of Cordale Handy in 2017. Jurors, in a mixed decision, also determined that a second officer involved in the incident, Mikko Norman, should not be held liable.
A federal jury is hearing testimony this week in a civil trial over the death of a man St. Paul police shot six years ago.
The 18-stop trail debuted in 2019 and chronicles some of the city's key moments in the struggle for racial equality.