Right after Mayor de Blasio blew up at the Department of Law for a $5,000 settlement to a man who was convicted of menacing police officers, the city announced two more settlements—much larger but not as controversial.
The family of an unarmed Bronx teenager shot to death by a police officer in February 2012 received $3.9 million. Police Officer Richard Haste, who was working a plainclothes anti-drug assignment, pursued Ramarley Graham, 18, into his grandmother’s apartment. He shot him in the bathroom in front of the grandmother and Ramarley’s younger brother.
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