A 17-year-old planned to attend a birthday party the day he encountered Palm Beach County, Florida, sheriff’s deputies, who are accused of paralyzing him from the neck down after one repeatedly tased him in May 2021, according to a lawsuit he filed.
The case brought by Timmie Lee Knox Jr., resulted in the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office settling the case for $5.5 million in July, according to the Palm Beach Post. The newspaper obtained and reviewed a copy of the settlement check via a public records request.
Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley, the West Palm Beach law firm that represented Knox, who’s now 22, confirmed to McClatchy News that the case was settled but declined to comment further on May 12 due to a confidentiality agreement…