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Ohio county agrees to $7M settlement over man's death after jail guards restrained him, family says
Read full article: Ohio county agrees to $7M settlement over man's death after jail guards restrained him, family saysThe family of a man who died after being restrained in an Ohio county jail says they've reached a $7 million settlement with the county and are pushing officials there to prevent something like it from happening again.
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An innocent Black man was charged by SAPD based on his name. Two years later, the damage remains.
Read full article: An innocent Black man was charged by SAPD based on his name. Two years later, the damage remains.Michael Wright, 34, was indicted in the summer of 2019 for felony strangulation of a family member, a crime he did not commit. The formal charge came months after SAPD officers investigated a domestic violence incident between a woman and her boyfriend, another man named Michael Wright, 38, at a home near Woodlawn Lake. James Cline were disciplined for mistakes in the Michael Wright investigation. The actual Michael Wright accused of felony strangulation was indicted in July 2020, court records show. It does not appear, meanwhile, that Montes or Cline were ever punished publicly for the gaffes in the Wright case.