Indiana: Black man DeShawn Franklin punched, tasered, arrested by police, jury awarded $18

An innocent black man was punched, Tasered and arrested by police. The jury awarded him $18.

DeShawn Franklin was asleep in his bedroom when police officers, with their weapons drawn, barged in. He was punched several times, including three times in the face. He was also Tasered, dragged out of his bedroom, handcuffed and placed in a police car. "I didn't even know what was going on. I was just asleep," Franklin told The Washington Post. "It was just all a big shock and disturbance." One thing became clear immediately: Franklin, then an 18-year-old high school senior, had done nothing wrong. But he did fit the description of a suspect being sought by officers: a slender, ...

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