A memorial for Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S., September 10, 2020. Picture taken September 10, 2020. REUTERS/Bryan Woolston
(Reuters) - The city of Louisville, Kentucky, will pay $12 million (9.31 million pounds) to the family of Breonna Taylor, a Black woman shot dead by police in a botched raid on her apartment in March, to settle a wrongful-death lawsuit, Mayor Greg Fischer said on Tuesday.
The settlement appears to be one of the largest of its kind in the United States, where police departments are often shielded from having to pay damages for deaths in their custody.
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