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After more than three years of wrangling in federal court, a teen who says he was brutalized by Grand Rapids police will receive a $95,000 payout.
The settlement means the city doesn’t have to admit wrongdoing and the teen’s attorneys don’t have to prove their case — but the $95,000 check speaks for itself.
The case started on June 13, 2014 with a 911 call in which a caller claimed “a little boy has a gun in his waistband, I don’t know, but some people walking up the street saying he has a gun.” Police got to the intersection of Dolbee Avenue and Dunham Street SE, an area U.S. District Court Judge Paul Maloney described in court documents as “the worst of the worst in terms of violent crime.” There, they saw then-15-year-old Donovann Austin Braswell.
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