City Council on Tuesday approved a $75,000 settlement with Jordan Miles, 20, whose lawsuit continues in U.S. District Court against the officers who arrested him two years ago in Homewood. Miles, who is black, alleges the white officers never identified themselves as police when they "beat him to a pulp" and violated his civil rights after stopping him in January 2010 while he walked near the home of his mother and grandmother.
A Downtown attorney representing the officers said they were simply doing their jobs. The officers were in a high-crime area at night, saw Miles near a house and stopped him, said Bryan Campbell. He said Miles ran and resisted arrest. In May, federal officials announced they would not charge the officers. The city reinstated them, and all remain with the department.
"They used the force that was reasonable and necessary to subdue him," Campbell said