NYC Reaches $3 Million Settlement with Family of Black Teen Killed by Brooklyn Police

The city will shell out $3 million to the mother of a mentally ill teen killed in a hail of police bullets after NYPD officers mistook a hairbrush for a gun, the Daily News has learned.

Five cops fired 20 bullets at Khiel Coppin, 18, on Nov. 12, 2007, outside his home in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn in a shooting that sparked rallies and outrage from criminal justice advocates.

The killing also drew the attention of then-state Sen. Eric Adams, who suggested that the NYPD was withholding video of the fatal shooting.

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