A Los Angeles filmmaker and his daughter were awarded more than $3 million after a jury found Los Angeles County negligent for injuries the man sustained when a sheriff’s deputy shot him in the face with a non-lethal projectile during a protest against police brutality in 2020.

Cellin Gluck, 67, alleged in a lawsuit filed the following summer that the county and a number of unnamed sheriff’s deputies committed negligence and battery, violated Gluck’s civil rights and falsely imprisoned both him and his daughter Caroline, 28.

A Los Angeles County Superior Court jury determined earlier this month that the deputy — whose identity was never determined — used unreasonable force to control the crowd of protesters when firing the projectile and harmed the elder Gluck. It also found that witness

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