LAS VEGAS — The family of a Wisconsin tourist who died in Las Vegas after being strapped to a restraint chair in jail following his arrest on a trespassing charge has agreed to a $2.35 million settlement with the police department, their attorney said Monday.
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Relatives of Nicholas Farah, 36, of Appleton, agreed to drop their federal excessive force, wrongful death and negligence lawsuit against the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, five corrections officers and a police officer who were involved in Farah’s detention and death in March 2019, family attorney Sarah Grady said.
“There should be a price to pay when you dehumanize people,” Grady said. “Nick was not just another person being arrested for the most vanilla of criminal charges. He was a father, a son, a brother. He was incredibly valued by his family. A jury would see how his treatment was clearly dehumanizing.”
Officer Larry Hadfield, a police spokesman, declined immediate comment about the settlement.
The amount topped a reported $2.2 million agreement in 2020 with several relatives of Tashii Brown, a 40-year-old Las Vegas man who died in 2017 after being hit with stun gun jolts and put in a neck restraint by a police officer outside a Las Vegas casino.
In Farah’s case, the Clark County coroner ruled his death a homicide resulting from asphyxia during restraint procedures. Farah’s autopsy called methamphetamine intoxication and obesity “significant contributing conditions.”
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