in which Brown was stunned with a Taser and wrestled to the ground by multiple officers after he used a handicapped parking space in a Walgreens parking lot.
"We have a lot of work to do, and I can't get complacent and just relax because there was one settlement that was able to be approved," Brown said."It's going to have a great impact, but ... how can we continue to make sure that these things are enforced? How can we continue to make, you know, advances and strides in the areas that we do still need help?"
The initial officer called for backup, and when others arrived, they questioned Brown and ordered him to take his hands out of his pockets before wrestling him to the ground and piling on, according to video released in 2018. An officer was heard yelling"Taser! Taser! Taser!" as Brown groaned."I ain't got no reason to kick y'all, man," Brown said.
Mark Thomsen, Brown's attorney, said his client has always been focused on more than a dollar amount. The approved settlement is extensive in its language about use of force, body cameras and training, Thomsen said. , a Black man who was paralyzed after he was shot multiple times by a Kenosha, Wisconsin, police officer in August.
Here he would have found a fine on his windscreen.