PORTLAND, Ore. — Portland city councilors will vote on Thursday on whether or not to give $3.75 million to a family whose son was wrongfully shot in the back by a police officer on November 19, 2022.
The family of Immanueal Jaquez Clark-Johnson sued the City of Portland and the Police Bureau in the U.S. District Court.
The Policeman Was Cleared of Criminal Wrongdoing
Clark-Johnson was killed by Portland police officer Christopher Sathoff in a mistaken identity shooting. Sathoff was cleared of criminal wrongdoing by a grand jury last year.
Clark-Johnson, who was 30 years old at the time of the shooting, fled on foot from the police who mistakenly believed him to be involved in an armed robbery outside a fast-food restaurant on Powell Boulevard and Southeast 50th Avenue…