Jury Awards the Family of Jorge Gomez $6.5M. Las Vegas Cops Murdered Latino Man by Shooting Him in the Back as He Ran From Them, Posed No Deadly Threat. Liberal DA Failed to Charge Police

From [HERE] A jury ordered the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department to pay $6.5 million in damages to the family of a man shot and killed by officers during Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, court records showed.

Jorge Gomez, then 25, was legally armed when four LVMPD officers shot and killed him during a protest on June 1, 2020, according to police.

Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson declined to file criminal charges against the four officers involved. Gomez’s family later filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the four officers and LVMPD.

On Monday, which marked day 10 of the trial, after deliberations, a jury awarded $6.5 million in damages to Gomez’s family.

On June 1, 2020, during the demonstrations, officers approached Gomez, one minute after reports that an officer was injured in another shooting in front of the Circus Circus Hotel and Casino on the north end of the Las Vegas Strip. Gomez was not involved in that shooting and was walking in front of the federal courthouse, according to a legal analysis by Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson.

Gomez’s family’s attorney had argued that the surveillance video, released during a public fact-finding review, contradicts Metro’s account because it shows Gomez was not pointing his gun at officers while he was running away.

Gomez’s family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the four officers, resulting in the trial.