Jury awards $22 million to man locked in closet by East Cleveland police for four days with no food or toilet
A jury awarded a Maple Heights man $22 million this week for a 2012 traffic stop during which he was punched by an East Cleveland police officer and locked in a storage closet for four days without food, water or access to a toilet.
Arnold Black spent four days alone inside the East Cleveland Police Headquarters, according to a lawsuit decided this week in Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas, while his family was unable to reach him.
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