By Nick Gale, WLS News
(CHICAGO) A City Council committee has signed off on $700,000 in settlements triggered by two more cases of alleged police abuse.
The largest of the two settlements is $500,000. It will go to the family of Ontario Billups, who was shot to death in 2010 by a police officer. Billups was allegedly dealing drugs on the Chicago’s South Side when the officer said the 30-year-old made an “aggressive movement” toward her.
But the “dark object” the officer thought was a gun turned out to be a bag filled with pot.
The second settlement goes to Maurice Waller, who suffered facial injuries including a fracture during an altercation in the 11th District lock-up after a 2013 arrest for criminal trespass to a vehicle.
Waller claims he didn’t have access to medication when detained.
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