The Pugh administration today paid $30,000 to settle a gross negligence lawsuit involving a police officer who was earlier seen violently beating a man outside of a nightclub.
The Board of Estimates approved a $30,000 cash payment to the mother of an 11-year-old boy who suffered from traumatic brain injury after he was struck by a police cruiser driven by Officer Nicholas G. Lancetta in 2015.
A few months before this incident, Lancetta was one of five officers whose beating of a man outside of Melba’s nightclub was captured on cellphone video. Last year, Pugh and the spending board paid $135,000 to resolve that case.
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