Post by Logan on Jan 8, 2017 18:31:37 GMT -6
Philly to pay $4.4M in shooting; largest police settlement in city history
Philadelphia has agreed to pay $4.4 million to a college student gravely wounded by plainclothes police two years ago while the 20-year-old was delivering takeout food.
It is the largest settlement in a police shooting case in the city's history, according to Philadelphia Law Department records.
Then-Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey said shortly after the shooting that Officers Mitchell Farrell and Kevin Hanvey had fired at the wrong man.
On Friday, the mayor's office called the shooting "an unfortunate, regrettable series of events."
Read more: www.philly.com/philly/news/20170107_breaking_local.html
Philadelphia has agreed to pay $4.4 million to a college student gravely wounded by plainclothes police two years ago while the 20-year-old was delivering takeout food.
It is the largest settlement in a police shooting case in the city's history, according to Philadelphia Law Department records.
Then-Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey said shortly after the shooting that Officers Mitchell Farrell and Kevin Hanvey had fired at the wrong man.
On Friday, the mayor's office called the shooting "an unfortunate, regrettable series of events."
Read more: www.philly.com/philly/news/20170107_breaking_local.html