Houston Chronicle by Robert Downen Jan. 6, 2020
Houston may pay $1.2M to settle lawsuit from family of man killed by police officer
The City of Houston would pay $1.2 million to the family of an unarmed man who was fatally shot by a Houston police officer in 2014, under a settlement scheduled to be considered by city council Wednesday.
The potential settlement comes five years after HPD narcotics officer Juventino Castro was cleared of all wrongdoing by a Harris County grand jury in the shooting death of Jordan Baker, who was unarmed.
The shooting — and decision not to bring charges against Castro — came amid a national wave of highly publicized shootings of unarmed black individuals by police officers, many of whom avoided criminal investigations.
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