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Georgia to pay $4.8M in state trooper’s killing of Black man

FILE - In this undated photo provided by the Georgia Department of Public Safety, state trooper Jacob Gordon Thompson is seen in an official portrait. The office of Georgia's attorney general confirmed Friday, April 1, 2022, that the state of Georgia has agreed to pay a $4.8 million legal settlement to the family of a Black man who was fatally shot by the trooper trying to pull him over for a broke tail light. Thompson was fired and charged with murder following the 2020 killing, but the prosecution stalled when a grand jury declined to indict him. (Georgia Department of Public Safety via AP, File) FILE - In this undated photo provided by the Georgia Department of Public Safety, state trooper Jacob Gordon Thompson is seen in an official portrait. The office of Georgia's attorney general confirmed Friday, April 1, 2022, that the state of Georgia has agreed to pay a $4.8 million legal settlement to the family of a Black man who was fatally shot by the trooper trying to pull him over for a broke tail light. Thompson was fired and charged with murder following the 2020 killing, but the prosecution stalled when a grand jury declined to indict him. (Georgia Department of Public Safety via AP, File)
Georgia to pay $4.8M in state trooper’s killing of Black man