Family of Chicago man dragged from his cell to get $4.9 million

Beleaguered Chicago taxpayers will spend $4.9 million to compensate the family of a 38-year-old man who suffered a mental breakdown in 2012 and was dragged from his cell by Chicago Police officers after being shocked repeatedly with a stun gun, aldermen were told Monday.

African-American aldermen were harshly criticized for signing off on a $5 million settlement to the family of Laquan McDonald - one week after the April 7, 2015, mayoral runoff and before a lawsuit had even been filed - without asking tough enough questions or seeing the incendiary shooting video.

On Monday, the Emanuel administration helped them make amends by briefing them in small, closed-door groups on the $4.9 million settlement to be paid to the family of Philip Coleman months after the disturbing video had been made public.

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