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Police offer $250,000 in excessive force lawsuit
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Updated: Apr. 9, 2012 | 1:00 p.m.
The Metropolitan Police Department will offer $250,000 to end a federal excessive force lawsuit filed by a man who suffered a broken neck during his 2001 arrest.
The department's Committee on Fiscal Affairs approved the offer Monday morning with a 3-0 vote. Department leaders hope the offer will persuade Frankie Davis to drop his lawsuit.
"We're making an offer of judgment. If they don't accept it, we're going to trial," said Carla Alston, a department spokeswoman.
But Davis' lawyer, Barry Levinson, said he wouldn't accept the offer.
"They're out of their minds," Levinson said. "This case is worth a lot more than that."
Davis' medical bills total close to $200,000, he said.
Davis suffered a broken neck in the November 2001 run-in with officer David D. Miller, who arrested the then-33-year-old after security guards at the Las Vegas Club found him reading a magazine in an employees-only area.
The lawsuit alleges Miller slammed Davis into a wall and punched him in the face when he was handcuffed and on the ground. County prosecutors declined to press criminal charges against the officer, saying his actions were in response to Davis resisting arrest.
But an internal affairs investigation found Miller used more force than necessary and suspended him for 10 hours and ordered him to undergo use-of-force training.
Trial is scheduled to begin Sept. 10.
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