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A $4.8 Million Settlement Was Reached Due to a State Trooper’s Fatal Shooting of a Black Driver

The state of Georgia will pay a $4.8 million settlement to the family of a 60-year-old Black man who was fatally shot by a state trooper in 2020 during a traffic stop over a broken taillight, officials said.

Julian Edward Roosevelt Lewis, 60, was killed on Aug. 7, 2020, after the trooper, Jacob Thompson, spotted him driving at night with a broken taillight, according to a report from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

Mr. Thompson, who is white, followed Mr. Lewis and tried to get him to pull over near Sylvania, Ga., which is about 60 miles northwest of Savannah. Eventually, Mr. Thompson used his patrol vehicle to force Mr. Lewis’s car to turn sideways into a ditch.

Read the source article at The New York Times

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