City settled case with family,averting federal civil rights lawsuit following 12-year-primitive’s death in November 2014 shootingThe city of Cleveland, Ohio, and has agreed to pay $6m to the family of Tamir Rice to settle a lawsuit over the 12-year-primitive’s fatal shooting by a police officer.
The payment will avert a federal civil rights case brought against city authorities by Tamir’s relatives over the death of “a young boy with his entire life ahead of him,full of potential and promise”, their attorneys said on Monday.
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Source: theguardian.com