Often times we bust on the News Journal, but in cases like this, the News Journal did a lot of good to get this information out in public.
The city of Dover paid $300,000 last year to resolve a federal civil rights lawsuit against a man who was kicked in the head by a city police officer.
The settlement was released to The News Journal on Monday morning after Attorney General Matt Denn’s office ruled in the newspaper’s favor following a yearlong appeal.
The lawsuit stemmed from a police dashcam video that showed Cpl. Thomas Webster IV kicking Lateef Dickerson in the head, knocking him out, in August 2013. Dickerson had run from another officer who was breaking up a fight near a Hess gas station in Dover, authorities said.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Delaware filed the suit on Dickerson’s behalf against the city and the officer who kicked him almost three years ago.