The city of Sacramento Tuesday agreed to pay $1.4 million to the daughter of a woman who died after an officer dragged her out of her car in her bathrobe and handcuffed her on the concrete as she lost consciousness.
The settlement comes roughly two weeks after The Sacramento Bee published a story about the death, including a video of the incident and a photo of Officer Matthew Sterling kneeling and smiling over the woman, her hands still handcuffed behind her back.
The City Council approved the settlement Tuesday during a closed-door meeting, according to an email Supervising Deputy City Attorney Andrea Velasquez sent to Mark Merin, the daughter’s attorney, at 2:36 p.m. — 36 minutes after their closed-session meeting began…