Excessive Force Verdicts & Settlements
Verdict &
Settlement
Disposition
Description
Case Name
$10,500,000
Man killed in his apartment building during an
undercover police raid. During struggle, an
officer's gun discharged a fatal shot that pierced
man's head.
Ferguson v. City N.Y.
Bronx Co., N.Y., Sup. Ct., No.
18951/01 (6/06/07)
$5,000,000
Man died following an altercation with a Houston
K-9 officer. The police dog bit the man a few
times in the back and torso while officer twice
shot the man.
Goodman v. Ashabranner
S.D. Texas, No. H-03-4198
(9/28/07)
$4,458,644
Two men alleged officers beat them without
provocation after responding to a noise complaint
for a party in their front yard.
Cazares v. City of Bell Gardens
C.D. Calif., No. 2:06-cv-05985-
VBF-JTL (4/14/08)
$3,500,000
Man is in a vegetative state after seven officers
restrained him during an arrest, where he was
punched and kneed.
Magyar v. City of Tampa
Hillsborough Co., Fla., Cir. Ct.,
13th, No. 00-CA-001147
(12/13/07)
$500,000
Prisoner claimed guards beat him for his
complaints that guards were issuing false
emergency codes so that they could then partake
in beating inmates.
Joslyn v. Connecticut
Department of Corrections.
D. Conn., No. 3:07-cv-00305-
JCH (7/25/07)
$250,000
Las Vegas cop bashed man's head into a wall at a
casino, and he claimed he was punched while
handcuffed.
Davis v. The City of Las Vegas
D. Nev., No. 2:02-cv-00007-
JCM-PAL (1/18/08)
$150,000
Teen claimed that cops pushed, choked and
falsely arrested him while out in public
celebrating a Philadelphia Eagles win.
McKenna v. The City of
Philadelphia
E.D. Pa., No. 2:07-cv-00110-wd
(9/17/07)
$121,225
Driver claimed that police stomped on his face
after he allegedly bought drugs from undercover
officers.
Torres v. City of Camden
D.N.J. No. 1:05-cv-2434
9/17/07)
Defense
Man fatally shot by cop responding to bar fight.
Defense argued the officer warned him three
times to retreat as he approached the officer