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Boston to pay $1.4m to settle lawsuit against officer

Man says he had brain injuries after arrest

By Edward Mason and Tom Mashberg

 |  Globe Correspondents  

  March 14, 2012

The city of Boston will pay $1.4 million to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit by a Middlesex County corrections officer who claims a Boston police officer tackled him and placed him in a choke hold during a 2009 arrest in the North End, leaving him brain-damaged and unable to return to work. The arresting officer, David C. Williams, already has been fired for using excessive force on Michael P. O’Brien.

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