Chicago To Pay $3.2M To Settle Two Fatal Police Shooting Cases

Chicago agreed Wednesday to pay $3.2 million to settle separate cases involving a black man and a Hispanic man who were each fatally shot by officers with a police department now under fire for racial bias and the excessive use of force.

The settlements came as the third-biggest U.S. city’s police department grapples with a strained relationship between officers and minority communities, and a federal probe that was launched after the release last fall of a video showing a white police officer fatally shooting a black teenager.