Officials from Ohio’s largest city have reached a $225,000 settlement with a man who said police officers used inappropriate force during an arrest in 2017.
The Columbus City Council voted unanimously Monday to approve the agreement with Timothy Davis. As part of the agreement, neither the city nor the officials admitted to any wrongdoing.
Davis had sued the city in federal court, alleging civil rights violations, but a jury rejected his claims in December 2021. A federal judge granted a partial new trial in September, saying a full jury verdict was in favor of the officials was “against the clear weight of the evidence”. The agreement reached in December and approved on Monday resolves that issue.
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Davis’ lawyers had said during the trial that the Columbus officers verbally abused him, punching, kicking and using a stun gun; he pulled at his hair; and he stripped him nearly naked from the waist down during the September 2017 arrest.
An Ohio man has reached a $225,000 settlement with Columbus officials after police allegedly used undue force during an arrest in 2017.
A lawsuit also accused the officers of trying to prevent bystanders from filming the arrest.
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The city denied the allegations and said police acted correctly when they arrested Davis on various violent crime warrants, including assault on an officer. The city also denied that the officers tried to block filming of the arrest.
The jury returned a verdict denying all claims against nine officers and the city, which acknowledged that comments by an officer at the scene were “inappropriate” but said the officer had no role in Davis’s arrest.
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“I’m going to choke your life,” the officer said at one point, referring to how he would have handled the arrest.
