In all, the payments approved Wednesday are equivalent to 30% of the city’s annual $82 million budget to cover the cost of police misconduct lawsuits.
While two multimillion-dollar settlements were approved without opposition, a recommendation from the city’s lawyers to pay $900,000 to a man shot by police on New Years’ Day in 2017 narrowly passed on a 27-20 vote after a dramatic plea by Ald. Nicholas Sposato .Rowlett fled from police after a traffic stop, sideswiping several cars and crashing into a police cruiser.
Sposato said he had been “stewing” about the presence of the knife in the car, and pleaded with his colleagues to reject the settlement. There was no evidence presented by city attorneys to City Council members that Rowlett was reaching for the knife when he was shot or had threatened officers. In other action, the Chicago City Council voted unanimously to pay $15 million to the family of a 37-year-old woman who was struck and killed by a speeding police car during a chase the officer had been ordered to stop.
Blanco and other officers had been ordered to terminate the chase before the fatal collision near Irving Park Road and Ashland Avenue. The City Council also voted unanimously to pay $9 million to a man who spent 25 years in prison after being convicted of murder in 1994 following an investigation led by a Chicago Police detective accused of routinely framing suspects.
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