Syracuse, N.Y. – The city of Syracuse agreed to pay a man convicted of assaulting a police officer $85,000 to settle a police-brutality lawsuit stemming from the same incident.
Willie Strong will get paid while serving a 14-year state prison sentence for breaking a cop’s wrist and illegally possessing a gun during a traffic stop in 2013. Before he began that sentence, he had to finish time he was serving in federal prison on drug charges.