Las Vegas police will pay a combined $675,000 in settlements to two men, including one who claimed he was the victim of a false arrest in 2019.
The Metropolitan Police Committee on Fiscal Affairs approved both settlements on Monday.
Douglas Seymour will receive $275,000. He was arrested for failing to identify himself, although body camera footage showed that the arresting officer never asked him to do so.
Seymour filed a federal lawsuit against the Metropolitan Police Department and officer John Woodruff in May 2020.
The lawsuit claimed that Woodruff knocked on the door of Seymour’s Boulder Highway apartment around 5:15 a.m. on November 20, 2019, and said there had been a complaint of animal abuse. According to the lawsuit, Seymour asked why he had to come outside with the officer, and Woodruff told him, “Okay, now you’re detained.”
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Seymour, who is Black, was handcuffed and put in a patrol car while Woodruff “made disparaging comments against African Americans” and threatened to come back to the house, the suit alleged. When Seymour asked to speak with a supervisor, according to the document, Woodruff arrested him for failing to identify himself.
At the police station, Seymour spoke to a sergeant, who reviewed body camera footage corroborating Seymour’s story.
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