Man blinded by bean bag during Cleveland racial protest sues
MARK GILLISPIE, Associated Press
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This Wednesday, June 24, 2020 photo shows John Sanders in Sandusky, Ohio. Sanders, who was hit in the face with a bean bag and blinded in one eye during a protest last year in downtown Cleveland, has sued the sheriff s deputy who shot him. The complaint filed Saturday, May 29, 2021, by Sanders says the Cuyahoga County sheriff s deputy shot him from behind a broken window as he walked away from the county Justice Center after taking photos. (Dennis Murray Jr. via AP)Dennis Murray Jr./AP
CLEVELAND (AP) A man hit in the face with a bean bag that left him blind in one eye during a racial injustice protest in downtown Cleveland a year ago has sued the sheriff s deputy who shot him.
Man blinded by bean bag during Cleveland racial protest sues
By Mark Gillispie - Associated Press
CLEVELAND (AP) A man hit in the face with a bean bag that left him blind in one eye during a racial injustice protest in downtown Cleveland a year ago has sued the sheriff’s deputy who shot him.
Attorneys for John Sanders, 25, of Sandusky, filed the complaint in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court on Saturday, the day before the one-year anniversary of a Black Lives Matter protest organized in the wake of George Floyd’s slaying in Minneapolis.
“The injuries inflicted upon Sanders were part and parcel of a long history of inhumane treatment of citizens” by the Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Office, the lawsuit said.
May 30, 2021
Ohio Wildlife Officer Matt Madgar has been assigned to Geauga County, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Wildlife.
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Ohio Wildlife Officer Matt Madgar has been assigned to Geauga County, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Wildlife.
A 2019 graduate of the Wildlife Officer Academy, Madgar has served Cuyahoga County since March 2019. He replaces Ohio Wildlife Officer Scott Denamen, who has served Geauga County since 2003 and recently was promoted to wildlife officer supervisor.
Madgar graduated from Howland High School in Trumbull County in 2011, and from Youngstown State University in 2015 with degrees in criminal justice and business administration.
CLEVELAND, Ohio More than a dozen people filed a lawsuit Friday accusing Cleveland, Cuyahoga County and several police officers and sheriff’s deputies of excessive force and unlawfully arresting and detaining them during last year’s George Floyd protests in downtown Cleveland. One woman said police officers and jail staff illegally held her in the Cuyahoga County Jail for six days without .