Kansas City settles with Black man wrongly jailed at 15
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Black man who was arrested when he was 15 and held for three...
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Black man who was arrested when he was 15 and held for three...
Tyree Bell was held in jail for three weeks without charge and released only after a detective watched patrol car videos from his arrest and concluded that his clothing and appearance did not match those of the suspect.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Black man who was arrested when he was 15 and held for three weeks for a crime he did not commit reached a $900,000 settlement with the Kansas City Police Department. The settlement announced by attorneys for both sides Tuesday comes in a civil rights lawsuit filed by the family of Tyree Bell over his June 8, 2016, arrest.
The family of a Kansas City, Missouri, teenager wrongfully detained for three weeks has reached a settlement in a civil rights lawsuit against the Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Black man who was arrested when he was 15 and held for three...