Jurors found police guilty of false arrest and not guilty of excessive force on Monday in the trial of Jordan Miles, a black student who was arrested and beaten by officers in January 2010.
Miles will also receive $101,000 in compensatory damages and $18,000 in punitive damges, according to Rich Lord of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
A retrial in the case began earlier this month.
In August 2012, a federal jury ruled that Officers Richard Ewing, Michael Saldutte, and David Sisak did not maliciously prosecute 18-year-old Miles but were deadlocked on whether they used excessive force or wrongfully arrested him.
Miles was arrested by the three officers after they claim they saw a gun coming out of his coat pocket. However, police claimed the gun ended up being a soda bottle, though Miles said he didn't even have a bottle on him either. The then-18-year-old student said he was merely talking on his cell phone while walking from his mother's house to his grandmother's house.
"The officers overtook Miles and administered a brutal beating that left him unrecognizable, ripping dreadlocks out of his head, and continuing to beat him as he lay on the ground after their initial assault, stammering the Lord's Prayer. There can be no explaining away or excusing what was done to Miles," according to the Justice for Jordan website.
Since the trial, Ewing left the Pittsburgh Police Department and became an officer in McCandless, a suburb north of the city. Saldutte and Sisak remained on the force.
All three police officers deny any wrongdoing. They've admitted to kicking and punching Miles because he allegedly fought with them.
