City of Sacramento, California Pays $4.3 Million to the Family of Unarmed Black Man Who Died After Police Restraint

The city of Sacramento is paying a $4.35 million settlement to the family of an unarmed Black man who died after police held him down in a dangerous position in his parents’ living room.

In February 2020 Harriet Jefferson called 911 because her diabetic son, Reginald “Reggie” Payne, 48, was experiencing a medical emergency and needed a glucose IV — something she had done in the past. When firefighters arrived at the home, they determined they were unable to treat him, so they called three police officers to restrain him first. The officers, one of whom referred to Payne as a “big boy,” held him face down in the prone position, causing him to go into cardiac arrest, ultimately causing his death, according to the coroner’s report.

The settlement amount paid to the Payne family is slightly larger than the $4.1 million the city paid to the family of Stephon Clark, an unarmed Black man police fatally shot in 2018 after mistaking his cellphone for a gun. The city in 2019 paid a $5.2 settlement to the family of John Hernandez, whom police tased and beat into a coma.

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