Durham pays family of Black teen $100,000 to settle police brutality lawsuit
BY MARY HELEN MOORE UPDATED DECEMBER 20, 2022 8:59 AM
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Durham pays family of Black teen $100,000 to settle police brutality lawsuit
BY MARY HELEN MOORE UPDATED DECEMBER 20, 2022 8:59 AM
Read more at: https://www.heraldsun.com/news/local/crime/article268921647.html#storylink=cpy
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Man killed by police had threatened to commit suicide
Marcus Golden, who St. Paul police shot and killed outside an apartment in January, was agitated by the suicide of his brother -- who was memorialized in Golden's bedroom (pictured) -- and had threatened to kill himself, according to police interviews with his family.
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City, family reach $2M settlement in fatal police shooting
A South Florida city has reached a $2 million settlement with the family of a Black motorist who was fatally shot by a police officer after his vehicle broke down on an interstate off-ramp more than seven years ago
Austin pays $3.3 million to settle lawsuit against police over fatal shooting in 2017
Claire Osborn
Austin American-Statesman
The Austin City Council approved a $3.3 million settlement Thursday of a lawsuit over the fatal shooting of Landon Nobles by two police officers in 2017. The council also approved settlements in three lawsuits filed against the city over injuries people suffered in the May 2020 protests against police brutality.
Nobles was killed about 2:40 a.m. May 7, 2017, at Sixth and Trinity streets after downtown officers reported hearing gunfire.
Nobles was running toward an officer who blocked Nobles' path with a bicycle, the district attorney previously said. Nobles fell down but then got up and started running, officials said. When he turned with a handgun in his hand towards two police officers they shot him, the district attorney has said. Police said Nobles shot at them first.
Nobles' family filed a lawsuit against the two officers and the city in April 2019 saying that Nobles was shot in the back. The officers did not instruct Nobles to stop, the lawsuit said. Nobles' cousin Royie Nobles previously told the American-Statesman that Landon Nobles was running from the scene of an argument in downtown Austin when an officer threw a bicycle at him, causing a gun Landon Nobles was carrying to go off.
After Nobles' family filed the lawsuit, the case went to trial in federal court in December 2021. The jury awarded $67 million to Nobles' family. Because the amount was so large and bucked legal precedent, the city and Nobles' lawyers were directed to negotiate a reduced number, but they failed to reach an agreement. A judge intervened in August and reduced the amount to $8.3 million. The city appealed the case in September, which led to Thursday's settlement.
Claire Osborn
Austin American-Statesman
The Austin City Council approved a $3.3 million settlement Thursday of a lawsuit over the fatal shooting of Landon Nobles by two police officers in 2017. The council also approved settlements in three lawsuits filed against the city over injuries people suffered in the May 2020 protests against police brutality.
Nobles was killed about 2:40 a.m. May 7, 2017, at Sixth and Trinity streets after downtown officers reported hearing gunfire.
Nobles was running toward an officer who blocked Nobles' path with a bicycle, the district attorney previously said. Nobles fell down but then got up and started running, officials said. When he turned with a handgun in his hand towards two police officers they shot him, the district attorney has said. Police said Nobles shot at them first.
Nobles' family filed a lawsuit against the two officers and the city in April 2019 saying that Nobles was shot in the back. The officers did not instruct Nobles to stop, the lawsuit said. Nobles' cousin Royie Nobles previously told the American-Statesman that Landon Nobles was running from the scene of an argument in downtown Austin when an officer threw a bicycle at him, causing a gun Landon Nobles was carrying to go off.
After Nobles' family filed the lawsuit, the case went to trial in federal court in December 2021. The jury awarded $67 million to Nobles' family. Because the amount was so large and bucked legal precedent, the city and Nobles' lawyers were directed to negotiate a reduced number, but they failed to reach an agreement. A judge intervened in August and reduced the amount to $8.3 million. The city appealed the case in September, which led to Thursday's settlement.