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LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury has awarded $3.8 million to filmmaker Cellin Gluck and his daughter after Gluck was shot in the face with a rubber bullet by an LA County Sheriff’s deputy during a George Floyd protest in 2020.

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Gluck, who was at the demonstration near Beverly Boulevard and Stanley Avenue in Los Angeles with his son Griffin and daughter Caroline, was photographing the crowd when he was struck. His camera was instantly covered in blood.

"I remember staggering and being completely confused," Gluck recalled. His daughter Caroline described seeing her father bleeding heavily. "He takes his hand off his face, there’s just blood and his nose is all messed up, and he’s not able to form words."

The impact fractured Gluck’s face and left fragments

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