The Atlanta Public Safety and Legal Administration Committee could vote on Monday, June 24, to approve a $2 million settlement with two students at historically Black colleges who were tased by Atlanta police officers four years ago.
Attorneys for Taniyah Pilgrim and Messiah Young filed the civil lawsuit in the Northern District of Georgia on June 17, 2021, according to online court records.
That was a day after former Cherokee Judicial Circuit District Attorney Samir Patel announced he dropped the charges for six Atlanta police officers who had been fired from the police department and accused of battery and aggravated assault against Pilgrim and Young.
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