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Civil Rights

Oct. 26, 2026

Jury awards $51.8M in fatal San Bernardino deputy shooting

A federal jury awarded $51.8 million to the mother of a mentally ill man shot 12 times by sheriff's deputies, in what her attorneys called the largest police shooting verdict in California history.

A federal jury awarded $51.8 million to the mother of a man with a serious mental illness who was gunned down by San Bernardino County sheriff's deputies -- what her attorneys called the largest California jury verdict in a police shooting case.

The unanimous verdict Thursday for Matilde Garza and against San Bernardino County and deputies Bill Abernathy and Nicholas Kridner is believed to be the nation's third-largest jury award of its kind, according to her attorneys. <...

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