(MPR) The families of four Somali teenagers detained by Minneapolis park police in 2018 are splitting a $160,000 settlement after lodging a human rights complaint over the officers’ handling of the incident.
Bystanders recorded part of the incident, showing the boys being handcuffed and one officer drawing a weapon. Police were responding to what turned out to be a bogus 911 call claiming there were kids with weapons threatening people in the park near Minnehaha Falls.
“The biggest thing in this case is that the police officer drew a gun while they were handcuffed,” Jaylani Hussein, director of the Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, told reporters Wednesday as he announced the settlement.
