SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) - Jury deliberations are set to resume next week in the civil lawsuit American Indians filed against state police after a tax protest held along a central New York highway in 1997.
The Post-Standard of Syracuse reports (https://bit.ly/2d8DanT ) jurors deliberated for two days this week before the federal judge presiding over the case sent them home Thursday afternoon for the Columbus Day weekend. Deliberations resume Tuesday morning.
A dozen plaintiffs remaining in the lawsuit accuse dozens of state troopers of committing civil rights violations while breaking up a tax protest held in May 1997 along Interstate 81 just south of Syracuse. The troopers are accused of using excessive force after demonstrators entered the highway.
The original 98 plaintiffs involved in the lawsuit settled with the state in June for $2.7 million.
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