LOS ANGELES: Prince George’s County, Maryland, has reached a $20 million settlement with the family of an unarmed man killed this year while handcuffed inside a police vehicle, authorities said on Monday.
Corporal Michael Owen fatally shot William Green after arresting him in January 2020. He was charged with second-degree murder and is awaiting trial.
The settlement is one of the largest publicized payments to the kin of a victim of police violence in U.S. history.
The family of Michael Brown, an 18-year-old whose 2014 killing by police in Ferguson, Missouri sparked a national uprising against police brutality, received a $1.5 million settlement in the wake of his death.
This month, the city of Louisville, Kentucky agreed to pay $12 million to the family of Breonna Taylor, whose killing led to months of protests…