The former Brooklyn Center, Minnesota police officer who mistook her taser for a gun during a traffic stop back in April and 20-year-old Daunte Wright, who was Black.
The former Brooklyn Center, Minnesota police officer who mistook her taser for a gun during a traffic stop back in April and 20-year-old Daunte Wright, who was Black.
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For Brooklyn Center, a civil rights settlement could be crushing
For Brooklyn Center, a civil rights settlement could be crushing Insurance limits and lack of funds are not a defense that will shelter Brooklyn Center or any city from multimillion-dollar judgments, legal scholars say. April 24, 2021 6:08pm Text size Copy shortlink:
It s the excruciating calculus that inevitably follows a fatal police shooting.
Families file federal civil rights lawsuits, and local governments must either negotiate with grieving loved ones to compensate them for a life lost or allow a jury to decide damages.
Minneapolis set records with the $20 million settlement paid to Justine Ruszczyk Damond s family in 2019 and the $27 million settlement paid to George Floyd s next of kin in March, hailed as the largest pretrial settlement in a civil rights wrongful-death lawsuit in U.S. history.