Civil Plaintiff
A New Jersey County Reaches a Landmark $10 Million Police Brutality Settlement
A New Jersey county has agreed to pay a $10 million settlement to a Black man who was left paralyzed after an encounter with police eight years ago.
The lawsuit, filed by 29-year-old Xavier Ingram, lists Camden County, the Camden County Police Department, then-Assistant Chief of Police Orlando Cuevas and then-Police Chief John Scott Thomson, as well as three police officers involved in the incident — Jeremy Merck, Antonio Gennetta and Nicholas Marchiafava — as defendants.
The county agreed to a settlement last week after years of litigation and a mistrial was declared on March 29 in Camden federal court, when a jury became deadlocked on whether the officers were responsible for Ingram’s injuries.
