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Federal jury clears Houston officers in lawsuit over teen tasered in the eye

After hearing conflicting accounts of a 2011 confrontation between Houston police and a suicidal teenager, a federal jury Wednesday ruled that the officers were not liable for tasing the teenager in the eye. The verdict hinged on whether jurors believed the distressed 19-year-old posed a threat: Was he brandishing long kitchen knives and screaming in the front yard of his parents' Glenshire home?

 

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