Minneapolis pays out $170,000 to settle lawsuit over police flash-bang grenade tossed into car Lawsuit says man suffered severe burns, emotional scars from officer s action. December 22, 2020 9:38pm Text size Copy shortlink:
Jerrod Burt alleged in his federal suit that he was injured when the stun device penetrated the car s window and detonated against his body as he sat in the driver s seat. A friend who was sitting next to him was unharmed, the suit alleges, but Burt was left with second- and third-degree burns to his right arm and chest. The city offered us some money, because they felt obligated to offer our client something, because of the circumstances of being a Black man in a car, not wanted in a crime, who was never charged with a crime he didn t do anything wrong, said Steve Meshbesher, one of Burt s two attorneys. Meshbesher said that his client s burns have healed, but the emotional scars left by