Doris Berry, Personal Representative of the Estate of Lee F. Berry, Jr., Deceased v. City of Detroit

RALPH B. GUY, Jr., Circuit Judge.

A jury awarded Doris Berry (plaintiff), six million dollars for the death of her son, Lee Berry, Jr., who was shot by a Detroit police officer. On appeal, the City of Detroit (City) raises three arguments. First, the City asserts that plaintiff failed to offer any evidence that the City’s policymakers had adopted a policy or ratified a custom of unconstitutional use of deadly force. Second, the City argues that plaintiff’s evidence of the City’s alleged failure to train and discipline its officers failed to show any custom or policy of the City that amounted…