Protester shot in face by non-lethal projectile awarded more than $3 million

"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."

"The Glucks were trying to help another protester who had been shot in the face with a bean bag, when the deputy shot Gluck with the projectile and "blood beg[an] rushing down his cheek," the complaint said. The "impact fractured his face, embedded shrapnel in his nasal cavity ... left him with permanent disfigurement, vision problems, and severe emotional trauma," according to a statement by the Glucks' attorneys."

Cellin Gluck, 67, and his daughter Caroline, 28, sued Los Angeles County after a sheriff's deputy shot Gluck in the face with a non-lethal projectile during a May 30, 2020 protest in the Fairfax District. The lawsuit alleged negligence, battery, civil rights violations and false imprisonment by the county and unnamed deputies. A Los Angeles County Superior Court jury found the deputy used unreasonable force, awarded Gluck $3.5 million and found Caroline suffered serious emotional distress from witnessing the shooting. Gluck suffered facial fractures, embedded shrapnel, permanent disfigurement, vision problems and severe emotional trauma while helping another injured protester.

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