After a spirited debate, a divided City Council agreed Wednesday to spend $1 million to compensate the family of an armed, 26-year-old man shot and killed by police in 2019.
Five months ago, an avalanche of opposition from the police union’s staunchest City Council allies had forced then-Finance Committee Chair Scott Waguespack (32nd) to yank the settlement to the mother of Sharell Brown off the agenda to avoid an almost certain defeat.
