CLEVELAND (AP) - An attorney says Cleveland has agreed to settle a lawsuit by demonstrators arrested while protesting the 2015 acquittal of a police officer in a fatal shooting.
Cleveland.com (https://bit.ly/2wFRXgm ) reports an attorney representing the protesters said Tuesday the city agreed to pay a total of $50,000 to five protesters and a legal observer and be released from any liability.
The six were arrested after Cleveland officer Michael Brelo was acquitted on manslaughter charges in a 2012 shooting. Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams were unarmed and died in a barrage of gunfire when Brelo and other officers fired into Russell’s car after a chase.
The lawsuit said police violated protesters’ constitutional rights, arresting them without cause.
A city spokesman said Tuesday he didn’t have information on a settlement and no immediate comment.
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