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Two Indiana police officers are acquitted of excessive force in 2020 protesters' arrests

A jury has acquitted two Indianapolis police officers of excessive force for striking two women with batons during arrests at a May 2020 protest over the murder of George Floyd.
Indiana judge convicts man in Black man’s 2020 killing

Associated Press

Prosecutors had charged Tyler Newby, 32, with murder, but after a one-day bench trial a Marion County judge found Newby, who is white, guilty Monday of the lesser crime of reckless homicide in Dorian Murrell’s death.