LAS VEGAS (KLAS) -- 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

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