The city of Burlington, Vermont, has paid $215,000 to settle a lawsuit accusing a police officer of using excessive force by grabbing a man and slamming him to the ground in September of 2018.

The city of Burlington has settled a lawsuit with a victim of police use-of-force-- that's according to our media partners at ...

The lawsuit accused a Burlington police officer of slamming Mabior Jok to the ground, knocking him unconscious.

Mabior Jok sued after a police officer knocked him unconscious in fall 2018. His is the second excessive force lawsuit the ...