In the first police settlement of the new year, the Board of Estimates is set to award $550,000 on Wednesday to a man who suffered traumatic brain injury after he was tackled by police in Northwest Baltimore.

Eric Jones, now 59, was taken to Sinai Hospital in 2014 after he was thrown down while in the custody of police investigating a mid-afternoon, drug-buying gathering on the 5200 block of Denmore Avenue near Park Heights and Belvedere avenues.

After receiving a 911 call describing a slim-built man, dressed in all black, dealing drugs to about 35 people, Police Officers Joshua Jordan and Russell J. Tonks scoured the surrounding blocks for the dealer, who had disappeared up an alley, according to court records.

READ FULL ARTICLE HERE