Three Eastern Shore towns will pay $5 million and institute changes in policing to prevent more officer-involved deaths.
by Black’s family and the Coalition for Justice for Anton Black, a grass-roots group that has fought for transparency and accountability in Black’s death, against the towns of Greensboro, Ridgely and Centreville, and two officers and two police chiefs from those towns. The litigation against the state medical examiner’s office, also a defendant in the lawsuit, continues.
The settlement imposes a new use-of-force policy that, among other things, restricts restraining a suspect in, a long-criticized technique that was brought to the forefront after a Minneapolis police officer murdered George Floyd in 2020. It requires additional police training for intervention, implicit bias and de-escalation.
The lawsuit, which was filed in federal district court in Baltimore, claimed that officers used excessive force and accused police of violating Black’s constitutional rights with the force used. No one was charged in Black’s death.The settlement comes nearly four years after Black, a 19-year-old college student, died in a manner that the lawsuit described as a “chillingly similar” to Floyd’s death.
Floyd, whose death forced a national reckoning about systemic racism and policing, died as Derek Chauvin, a White Minneapolis police officer, pinned his knee on Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes.Greensboro officer Thomas Webster IV, who was responding to a call about a possible kidnapping, chased Black and used a Taser on him. The family says Black, who had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, was experiencing a mental health crisis.
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