Indianapolis reaches $390k settlement with Dreasjon Reed's mom
See sights and sounds from protests in Downtown Indianapolis on May 7, 2020, a day after an Indianapolis police officer fatally shot Dreasjon Reed, 21Indianapolis has agreed to pay $390,000 to settle a lawsuit by the mother of Dreasjon Reed almost three years after he was fatally shot by police following a vehicle pursuit.
Reed’s name became part of local activists' rallying cries in May 2020 as protests and riots over police killings of Black Americans gripped downtown.Indianapolis police and the city deny any liability. The settlement does not stand as an admission of wrongdoing, the agreement states. Reed was never charged in connection with that shooting. Wynn’s attorneys argued that Evans’ statements were"self-serving." After pleading guilty she was sentenced to two years probation and a year of home detention in lieu of prison time.
The city, on the other hand, won its request to keep any reference to the 2020 grand jury investigation into Mercer out of the trial. It also won its request to bar statements made by IMPD Officer Steven Scott, who was suspended from IMPD for several days after a recorded comment he made about Reed's body at the scene of the shooting: “I think it’s going to be closed casket, homie.”
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