Parma agrees to pay 16-year-old boy $40,000 to settle police brutality lawsuit

By Brian Byrne, Northeast Ohio Media Group
Cleveland.com
Mar. 10, 2014

City Council on Monday agreed to pay $40,000 to settle a police brutality lawsuit brought forth by the mother of a 16-year-old boy.

The suit accused officer James Manzo of unjustifiably striking the boy twice in the head while placing him in a cruiser following a traffic stop in November 2012.

Filed in November in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court, the suit sought unspecified damages for the boy, claiming assault and battery, false arrest and imprisonment and professional misconduct. It states he has suffered continued headaches as a result of the incident, and incurred substantial medical bills.

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