BETHEL, Alaska (AP) - The City of Bethel has reached a settlement out of court with a man who says a former police officer roughly arrested him in a parking lot.
KYUK-FM reports (https://bit.ly/1ElJpac ) that Wassillie Gregory and his attorney Sean Brown filed a lawsuit against the city and former officer Andrew Reid in early May.
Brown says Reid violated Gregory’s civil rights and committed assault and battery. He describes the July 2014 arrest as an “attack.”
The complaint says Gregory posed no threat to Reid and claims the city knew of other complaints against the officer.
Brown says the terms of the settlement are confidential but says the case will be dismissed.
A judge dismissed Gregory’s conviction for harassment earlier this month after a video of the arrest surfaced in early April.
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Information from: KYUK-AM, https://www.kyuk.org
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