• Erin Hegarty
    FEB 18, 2022
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    Aldermen approve $1.7M settlement for 2020 Brickyard Mall arrest: not a ‘reasonable response to what was going on'

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    From left: Ald. Leslie Hairston (5), Ald. Jason Ervin (28) and Ald. Nicholas Sposato (38) speaking during a committee meeting on Thursday. 

    In a split vote, aldermen gave initial approval to a more than $1.6 million payment to settle a lawsuit brought by a woman who alleged that her constitutional rights were violated when police officers pulled her by her hair from a car and placed a knee on her neck at the Brickyard Mall in May 2020. 

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