Philando Castile's girlfriend gets $800,000 settlement after police shooting
MINNEAPOLIS _ The St. Anthony City Council, facing "threatened litigation," voted Tuesday night to pay Diamond Reynolds and her young daughter a $675,000 settlement in connection with the police shooting of Philando Castile.
Reynolds will receive another $125,000 from the League of Minnesota Cities Insurance Trust and the city of Roseville, making the total settlement $800,000.
The settlement resolves Reynolds' claims of "emotional distress and false arrest," according to a statement on St. Anthony's website.
Reynolds, 28, and her daughter, who was 4 at the time, were riding in the car with Castile when he was pulled over by a St. Anthony police officer on July 6, 2016, in Falcon Heights. Castile volunteered that he had a gun, and the officer started shooting, fatally hitting Castile. One bullet passed within inches of Reynolds' daughter who was in the back seat.
Reynolds began livestreaming on Facebook moments after the shooting. The video has been viewed millions of times.
Neither Reynolds nor her daughter was injured, but Reynolds was detained for a time by Roseville police and questioned by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. Those issues figured into the settlement, according to the city's statement.
The settlement "will resolve all civil litigation" against the city and current and former employees and "opens the door to healing," Mayor Jerry Faust said.
Once approved by the court, a portion of the settlement will be placed into trust for Reynolds' daughter and her future educational needs, the city's statement said.
_Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
