A federal jury awarded $8.3 million dollars Wednesday to the family of 17-year-old Cedric “CJ” Lofton, who died in police custody in 2021.
Lofton died at a Sedgwick County juvenile facility after five officers pinned him to the floor for more than half an hour during a mental health crisis.
The civil lawsuit alleged that excessive force was the cause of Lofton’s death and that Wichita Police officers and county workers were not trained on how to handle teens in crisis…