The Kansas City Police Department has agreed to pay a $900,000 dollars settlement to a Black man who was wrongly arrested when he was 15 and held for three weeks before being released without charges.
Tyree Bell sued in 2017 over his arrest for a crime he did not commit.
Attorneys on both sides agreed to the settlement, but the judge still must approve it.
Bell was arrested in June 2016. Officers said he resembled a Black teenager who ran from them earlier that day.
An appeals court found in October 2020 that Bell’s only resemblance to the suspect was that he was Black, juvenile, and male.
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