The city of Sacramento agreed Thursday to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit for $220,000 after learning that one of three police officers named as defendants gave false testimony in the case.
Plaintiff’s attorney Mark Merin confirmed the amount of the award. Merin’s client, Arlie Halcomb, sued the city in U.S. District Court in Sacramento on charges that officers roughed him up when they came to his Fruitridge Road apartment searching for another person in 2014 and detained him for up to an hour against his will.
“I think they did the right, honorable, ethical thing to settle the case once they realized that their principal witness had lied,” Merin said of the city’s decision to settle.