A federal judge has reduced the city of St. Paul’s record jury award to the family of Cordale Handy, a man killed by St. Paul Police in 2017, shrinking it from $10 million to $2.5 million in compensatory damages. After reviewing an appeal filed by the city in the excessive force case, U.S. District Court Judge David Doty called the $10 million civil award “patently excessive” and found that it .
Following a fatal encounter with St. Paul police in 2017, a federal civil jury awarded Kim Handy-Jones $11.5 million for the killing of her son, Cordale Handy.
Jurors awarded $11.5 million on Tuesday to the family of a man fatally shot by two St. Paul police officers in 2017. The jurors found on Monday that Officer Nathaniel Younce, who fired just before Officer Mikko Norman, violated Cordale Handy’s constitutional rights by using excessive force and that he’d wrongfully caused his death. They did not find the same for Norman. Handy’s mother, .