PREVIOUSLY UNREPORTED: City of Mesa Settles $1M Police Shooting Victim Lawsuit 2015

The city of Mesa quietly paid $1 million earlier this year to the family of a man fatally shot by police in the La Sendas neighborhood in 2015, Phoenix New Times has learned . . . Mesa City Attorney Jim Smith and the Mesa Police Department did not respond to requests for comment. Mesa police killed Ivan Krstic in the Las Sendas area on the evening of December 3, 2015. Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery declined to file charges against either of the officers involved in the shooting after his Shooting Review Board determined that they had committed no crime.
Here's the link to the report > Phoenix New Times 17 Sept 2018
Mesa Settles With Family of 2015 Police Shooting Victim
For $1,000,000
by Steven Hsieh 07:30 am
Here are a few details:
As a condition of two separate settlement agreements, a $10M wrongful death lawsuit was dropped.
As of August 22, the $1 million settlement represented the largest sum paid by the city for a single incident this year.

The previously unreported payments conclude the legal aftermath of a police shooting that received significant local media attention. The settlements were made in a year when the Mesa Police Department has come under increased scrutiny for its use of force, leading to two federal investigations of three incidents.According to police reports, Officers Dustin Gransee and Daniel Glover responded to a call from two witnesses that Krstic was banging the bar on the ground while yelling that the road was paved incorrectly. A witness who was walking his dog near the site of the shooting later said that he did not hear either officer identify themselves as law enforcement, according to lawyer Troy Hendrickson.
_________________________________________________________________________Another disturbing 9:07 video that was not uploaded to YouTube until August 26, 2016.
It has received 69 views to the time of upload on this blog post

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The FBI recently started reviewing a string of use-of-force incidents involving Mesa police officers for possible civil rights violations, the Arizona Republic reported.
The Bureau is also investigating the fatal shooting of Daniel Shaver, a Texas man who Mesa Police Officer Philip Brailsford shot in a hotel. Body camera footage of the incident went viral. Mesa Police fired Brailsford and Montgomery charged the officer with second-degree murder for the shooting. A jury acquitted him. 
Shaver's widow has a pending claim against the City of Mesa for more than $100 M  ________________________________________________________________________
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