CHARLOTTE -- The City of Charlotte will have to pay $825,000 after settling a lawsuit.
This is for a civil suit filed by Tanisha Williams' family.
“It’s a compromise,” their attorney William Harding said.
But he said “Unfortunately for Tanisha, her life will never be the same.”
Harding told us back in December 2011, Williams suffered a traumatic brain injury after strangling herself with a seatbelt in a backseat of a CMPD cruiser.
The lawsuit accused the officers for failing to properly care for Williams while in custody.
Harding said “It's our hope that our hard work in this case is going to affect policy and if one life is spared because of our involvement, then we've done a great thing.”
This civil case is one of five cases we found the City of Charlotte had settled since 2014.
The city paid $2.25 million last year to the family of Jonathan Ferrell. Attorney who represented the Ferrell family Charles Monnett said “It's my understanding that the settlement of the Jonathan Ferrell case was the largest payment they've ever made in an officer-involved shooting case.”
Ferrell’s shooting death by a CMPD officer garnered national attention.
“You had Jonathan who had a good background, who was a very nice young man, who clearly was simply looking for help. I think the number of times he was shot was probably a factor,” Monnett said.
Before that, in 2014, a jury verdict led to the city paying $500,000 to the family of Lareko Williams.
There was also a settlement of $115,000 to Jeffrey Green and $700,000 to the family of Anthony Furr.