Judge recommends $825K default judgment against East St. Louis in excessive force case

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Judge recommends $825K default judgment against East St. Louis in excessive force case

BENTON - U.S. Magistrate Judge Reona Daly recommended default judgment of $825,035.97 on a claim that East St. Louis police used excessive force on Dorian Hendricks of Belleville. The city didn’t answer a complaint Hendricks filed last October and Daly held a hearing on damages in May with Hendricks as sole witness.She filed a report on July 16 but lacked the city’s consent to magistrate jurisdiction so she assigned it to Senior District Judge P…