>One of the police officers named in the suit, Det. Randy Hicks, testified on behalf of Black after the city filed a lawsuit against him. The detective corroborated the allegations against himself and the department, according to Attorney Rob DiCello.

It is unusual for a police officer to incriminate himself.

> When asked to produce evidence from the traffic stop in the discovery phase of the trial, the city of East Cleveland told a judge overseeing Black's civil suit that they did not have dash cam video or police reports from the incident, DiCello said

If Hicks hadn't incriminated himself, it sounds like there was no evidence to support Blacks claims.

> Black also testified that the officers put him in the storage closet to hide the severity of his injuries.

Normally if the police injure a suspect, the police charge the injured suspect with assaulting an officer.

> Hicks testified at the civil trial that Police Chief Ralph Spotts confronted him several days after Black's arrest and forced him to resign. Hicks also testified that Spotts encouraged a culture of violence within the East Cleveland Police Department.

Hicks must have been offered some sort of amnesty.