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CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago City Council Committee voted to recommend that the city pay nearly $1.7 million to a woman who says she was yanked from her car by

Mia Wright was a passenger in a car at Brickyard Mall when police smashed the windows with their batons and pulled her from the vehicle amid the unrest...

Mia Wright was a passenger in a car at Brickyard Mall when police smashed the windows with their batons and pulled her from the vehicle amid the unrest...

Mia Wright was a passenger in a car at Brickyard Mall when police smashed the windows with their batons and pulled her from the vehicle amid the unrest...

Chicago taxpayers will likely spend $1.67 million to compensate a woman dragged from her car and pinned to the ground by Chicago police officers who kneeled on her neck at the Brickyard shopping center nearly two years ago.

The Chicago City Council’s Finance Committee voted 13-7 to send the recommendation from city attorneys to the full City Council for a final vote on Wednesday. 

A Chicago City Council Committee voted to recommend that the city pay nearly $1.7 million to a woman who says she was yanked from her car by police officers in 2020

Ald. Nick Sposato infuriated his Black colleagues by questioning Mia Wright’s claim that she and her friends, who lived in North Lawndale, had chosen to shop in Belmont Cragin on a chaotic day of rampant looting.

CHICAGO (AP) -- A woman who filed a civil rights lawsuit alleging she was yanked from her car by Chicago police at a shopping mall amid unrest following

Caught on video, the incident occurred during unrest in parts of the city after the murder of George Floyd.