The city of Sacramento reached a $160,000 settlement agreement with the father of a man who was shot to death by Sacramento police on a Regional Transit light rail train in August 2023.
The agreement, signed earlier this month, dismisses the federal lawsuit alleging officers should have known Dante Dwaine Day, 44, was having a mental crisis and called for intervention. On Aug. 15 2023, Dante died after he boarded a light rail train at Sacramento City College with a knife and was shot by police.
The lawsuit had been filed on behalf of Dante’s father, Derick Day, by Oakland civil rights attorney John Burris. Derick said on Thursday afternoon he still wishes the officers would have handled the situation better, citing the difference between a knife and gun…