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ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — A federal jury has awarded $125,000 to a Rochester couple after finding the City of Rochester and a city police officer liable for constitutional violations tied to the 2018 shooting death of the family’s dog.
The verdict, delivered in U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York, found the City liable on all four municipal liability theories presented at trial, a result the plaintiffs’ attorneys described as “exceptionally rare” in federal civil rights litigation…