Mayor Rahm Emanuel bends over and takes it up the ass to pander to the black community - Chicago May Pay $4.9M to Negro Family of Philip Coleman Who Died while fighting with the police while in police custody

Chicago would pay $4.9 million under a proposed settlement of a lawsuit brought by the family of a man who died at a hospital after officers subdued him with a stun gun and dragged him from his jail cell, a city official said Monday.

Alderman Roderick Sawyer said Mayor Rahm Emanuel's office is recommending that City Council members approve the proposed settlement for Philip Coleman's family and has been briefing them on the deal.

Coleman, who was black, was taken into custody in 2012 after allegedly attacking his mother. After officers used a Taser on Coleman, he was taken to a hospital, where he had a fatal reaction to an anti-psychotic drug. His family's federal lawsuit contends Coleman would still be alive if he had been taken to a hospital to begin with instead of jail.

The settlement is the latest example of wrongdoing by police officers resulting in a huge settlement with a victim or the person's family. Chicago has paid about $662 million on police misconduct since 2004, including judgments, settlements and outside legal fees, according to city records. The payouts, for everything from petty harassment to police torture, have brought more financial misery to a city already drowning in billions of dollars of pension debt.

Sawyer said he was told last week by Emanuel's office about the proposal in the Coleman case and the meetings with council members in anticipation of a formal hearing before the council's finance committee and the full council next week.

The proposed settlement follows the release in December that shows the 38-year-old Coleman in jail. In the video, six officers enter Coleman's cell, with one officer firing a stun gun at Coleman before another officer drags him from his cell by his handcuffed wrists.

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