Younce and Norman didn’t know before they shot Handy that he’d fired 16 gunshots at a couch in his apartment. Handy and his girlfriend of 10 years, Markeeta Johnson-Blakney, lived there. The 911 caller to the 700 block of East Sixth Street had reported a female screaming in an apartment building. He said Hardy could have been holding the gun up while his arm was up, and it wasn’t known in what order the shots struck him.Įdwards asked jurors to consider if the greater weight of the evidence supported “the proposition … that at the end of his life (Handy) picked up that gun and made the horrible decision to point it at a cop, … leaving those officers no choice but to shoot.” Gunshots before officers arrived The evidence on their side of the scale, O’Connor told jurors, included testimony from Handy’s girlfriend who said Handy had dropped the gun and a friend who said she didn’t see a gun in his hand gunshot wounds to Handy’s back and right arm, which O’Connor said showed his hand was up and the timing not being possible - there were 5 seconds between an officer radioing that Handy was lying on the ground and then reporting the officers fired gunshots.Įdwards, however, said Handy’s forearm injury doesn’t tell whether Handy pointed a gun at Norman. Unlike criminal cases, when the burden of proof is “beyond a reasonable doubt,” civil cases are to be decided by a “preponderance of the evidence,” which means the “scales of justice” tip slightly in favor of the prevailing side, O’Connor said. ![]() Paul officers had not yet begun wearing body cameras when Handy was killed - the department rolled them out later in 2017. Surveillance video showed Handy walking in a stumbling manner outside, but Handy wasn’t in view of the camera when he was shot. He said they did not cause or create the situation, but were responding to a 911 call for help. Paul, said in his closing statement that officers responded correctly. Tony Edwards, assistant city attorney for St. … Did they make a tragic, critical mistake? Yes.” Do I think they violated many of their policies and procedures? … Absolutely. Do I think they intentionally set out that day to murder him? Absolutely not. “They overreacted to a situation and failed to follow their training. “(Officers) perceived what they perceived, which was wrong,” Handy-Jones’ attorney, Kevin O’Connor, said to jurors Thursday. He was on the ground when the officers said Handy pointed a gun at Norman. On March 15, 2017, about 2:20 a.m., Norman and Younce responded to a 911 call in St. ![]() Cordale Handy (Courtesy of Kimberly Handy-Jones) Paul in a shooting by an officer being heard by a jury. The trial, which began Monday, is a rare occasion of a lawsuit against the city of St. Jurors began deliberations Thursday in the federal lawsuit filed by Kimberly Handy-Jones and are scheduled to resume on Monday.Īfter a 2017 investigation, no criminal charges were filed against officers Mikko Norman and Nathaniel Younce, who reported Handy pointed a gun at Norman. The city’s attorney requested the opposite from jurors. ![]() Paul police officers used excessive force and wrongfully caused his death when they shot the 29-year-old in 2017. An attorney for Cordale Handy’s mother asked jurors in a civil case Thursday to find that two St.
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