Astarte Washington was 15 years old when she suffered multiple broken bones after an unattended Chicago police car rolled over her.
CHICAGO -- A teenager who was run over by a Chicago police vehicle during the protests of George Floyd's murder in the summer of 2020 is in line for a $525,000 settlement from the city.The City Council Finance Committee on Monday is expected to approve that payout to Astarte Washington, who suffered multiple broken bones when an unattended Chicago Police Department squad car rolled over her as she was lying on the ground on May 31, 2020.
'Instead of putting the car in park, they jump out of that vehicle, the car begins to roll backward, and then you hear screaming,' attorney Robert Fakhouri said last year.Fakhouri said Washington, who at the time was an 8th grader at DuBois Elementary School, where she was acting student council president and captain of the basketball team, suffered multiple broken bones and emotional wounds as a result of being run over.
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