Former Northwestern PhD student who was arrested for stealing his own car to receive over $1 million settlement
28-year-old Lawrence Crosby is set to receive $1.25 million in punitive damages from the City of Evanston after he was tackled and arrested by the police for stealing his own car
A Chicago suburb has tentatively agreed to pay out over $1 million to settle a lawsuit filed by an African-American doctoral student who had been arrested and charged with stealing his own car.
According to the Chicago Tribune, the City of Evanston reached a tentative settlement with the lawyers of the then 25-year-old Northwestern University engineering doctoral candidate Lawrence Crosby to pay him what is believed to be $1.25 million in compensatory and punitive damages and other relief. And while Evanston City Manager Wally Bobkiewicz confirmed an agreement had been reached, he refused to confirm the exact amount because it was pending final City Council approval on January 28.
