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The Atlanta City Council approves a $2M settlement for two 'historically Black college students' who were tased and pulled from a car during the 2020 George Floyd riots.
The City Council voted 13-1 to approve a $2M settlement for Messiah Young and Taniyah Pilgrim.
Young and Pilgrim filed a federal lawsuit in June 2021, arguing police had no justification for pulling them from their car and tasing them.
Then-Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and then-Police Chief Erika Shields announced that two officers were fired and three others placed on desk duty.
A few days later, Fulton County DA Paul Howard announced arrest warrants for six officers.
In February 2021, the Atlanta Civil Service Board overturned the dismissals of the two officers, citing procedural errors by the city.
The charges against the six officers were dropped in May 2022 by a special prosecutor assigned to the case.