Massachusetts: Boston paid $1.3 million after police arrested Black man (Al Copeland) as he suffered a stroke

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Listen: Boston paid $1.3 million after police arrested Black man as he suffered a stroke, WBUR reports

12 October 2021

A new report found the City of Boston paid a $1.3 million settlement after police arrested a Black man and locked him up for hours as he suffered a stroke in 2019. WBUR, which recently discovered the case through a public records request, found the city shelled out the payment for Al Copeland, who Boston police arrested when officers found the then-62-year-old slumped in his car and nearly unconscious on the side of Massachusetts Avenue. Copeland told the news station he felt nauseous as he was driving that night and pulled over, not realizing he was having a stroke. “I ...

Listen: Boston paid $1.3 million after police arrested Black man as he suffered a stroke, WBUR reports

A new report found Boston paid a $1.3 million settlement after police arrested a Black man and jailed him as he suffered a stroke in 2019.

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Innocent Man Hospitalized for Months, Permanently Disabled After Cops Mistook His Stroke for DUI

16 October 2021

The taxpayers of Boston were put on notice this week that they will be paying out a historically large settlement thanks to the incompetence of their police department. Officers accused Al Copeland, 62, of being drunk and arrested him instead of getting him help for the stroke he had just suffered. On that fateful night, Copeland was driving home when he says he began feeling nauseous, so he pulled over right away. The feeling got worse after he pulled over and he eventually lost consciousness. He didn’t know it but he was in the midst of a stroke. “I was ...

Innocent Man Hospitalized for Months, Permanently Disabled After Cops Mistook His Stroke for DUI

Instead of getting an innocent man medical help that he needed for a stroke, cops accused him of being drunk and arrested him.

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Boston police arrested a Black man having a stroke. After $1.3 million payout, it's unclear if anything's changed05

12 October 2021

Al Copeland was driving on Mass. Ave in Boston one night when he started to feel nauseous and realized he needed to pull over right away. He didn't know it in that moment, but the then-62-year-old was having a stroke. "I was afraid," he recalls now. "I say, well, at least if anything happens to me, somebody will find me." Boston police did find Copeland slumped in his car and barely conscious in front of the Berklee College of Music. But instead of calling an ambulance, they arrested him. They wrote in their report that they smelled alcohol, even though ...

Boston police arrested a Black man having a stroke. After $1.3 million payout, it's unclear if anything's changed

The city of Boston agreed to pay a Boston driver $1.3 million after he pulled over to the side of the road after suffering a stroke and police arrested him instead of taking him immediately to the hospital.

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BLACK MAN ARRESTED BY BOSTON POLICE WHILE SUFFERING A STROKE RECEIVES $1.3 MILLION SETTLEMENT

13 October

According to a new report, the Boston police paid out $1.3 million to a Black man they assumed was drunk during a cop stop. Instead, 62-year-old Al Copeland was having a stroke when he was handcuffed and hauled off to jail. The 2019 incident outlined in the report uncovered through a records request by WBUR, detailed a number of missteps by the Boston brass that include their lax response in securing medical help for Copeland. The elderly man was found nearly unconscious after pulling over on the side of the road for relief because he was in distress. While cops ...

Black Man Arrested By Boston Police While Suffering a Stroke Receives $1.3 Million Settlement

Boston police found Copeland nearly unconscious. They never called an ambulance but claimed he smelled of alcohol and arrested him.

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Black Man Arrested While Having Stroke Wins $1.3M Police Payout

14 October 2021

The city of Boston has paid a $1.3 million settlement to a 64-year-old Black man who was arrested after having a stroke. Boston police had found Al Copeland slumped in his car and barely conscious outside the Berklee College of Music in April 2019, WBUR reported. Instead of calling an ambulance, officers arrested Copeland. In a police report, they wrote that they smelled alcohol—but Copeland told the station that he hadn't had a drink since 1995. "Why they didn't assume he was sick?" his wife Valerie Copeland added. "I can only and strongly believe it's because he's a Black male." ...

Black man arrested while having stroke wins $1.3m police payout

Officers arrested Al Copeland after finding him slumped in his car and barely conscious in Boston in April 2019.

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Boston quietly settled a case where police thought Black stroke victim was drunk

6 November 2021

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Last year, the city of Boston quietly agreed to a $1.3 million legal settlement. It happened after police mistook a Black man who was having a stroke for a drunk driver. Officers arrested the man and left him in a cell for hours before finally sending him to the hospital. The settlement remained a secret until a routine public records request made by reporter Ally Jarmanning. From WBUR in Boston, Ally Jarmanning reports the payout is one of the largest in the city's recent history. ALLY JARMANNING, BYLINE: Al Copeland was driving on a busy street in ...

Boston quietly settled a case where police thought Black stroke victim was drunk

Last year, the city of Boston settled a case for $1.3 million after police mistook a Black man suffering a stroke for a drunk driver. The settlement is one of the largest in Boston's recent history.

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