Fort Worth officer breaks man's nose as he stands with hands in the air, video shows
Four years ago, Jose Vasquez stood on a front lawn with his hands in the air as a Fort Worth police officer stepped toward him and punched him in the face, breaking his nose. A settlement was reached in the subsequent lawsuit against the officer and the city of Fort Worth at the end of October.
The city of Fort Worth was dismissed as a defendant from the suit, which was filed in May 2018 in the Fort Worth division of U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, in September. The settlement — the terms of which were not publicly available — was officially filed on Oct. 29, about three weeks after Vasquez died from COVID-19. The city paid the undisclosed settlement amount.
Body camera footage obtained by the Star-Telegram shows Officer Justin Landon punch Vasquez in the face as Vasquez stands with his hands up, surrounded by officers. Landon took a photo of Vasquez’s bloody face and showed it to other officers, according to the lawsuit filed by Vasquez.
“Despite the Fort Worth Police Department failing to find Officer Landon at fault for his use of force against Mr. Vasquez,” Vasquez’s attorney James Roberts said of the settlement, “the City’s decision to settle this case demonstrates that they took this matter seriously and wished to avoid the likely outcome at a trial.”
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