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$4.8 Million Settles Kansas City Police Shooting

Loaded on March 16, 2018 by Matthew Clarke published in Criminal Legal News April, 2018, page 23
Filed under: Police Misconduct. Location: Missouri.

by Matt Clarke

In September 2017, the terms of a $4.8 million confidential settlement between the Kansas City Police Department and an unarmed man whom police officers shot 20 times were made public. The man had sued police for using excessive force in responding to the report of an alleged ...

 

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