CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Chicago City Council members will consider giving a $45 million settlement for a police chase that ended in a 15-year-old boy being paralyzed.
The City Council Finance Committee will vote on the proposed settlement with Nathen Jones, who, according to a lawsuit filed in Cook County in 2022, suffered a traumatic brain injury that left him unable to walk or talk after a crash happened during a police chase over a traffic stop.
Jones was 15 when he was a passenger in a vehicle, that Chicago police attempted to pull over in 2021.
“Nathen Jones is now a young man who was robbed of his future,” Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard, the law firm representing the family said in a statement, according to the Chicago Tribune.
“He cannot speak or communicate his feelings. He cannot dress himself and the nourishment he receives comes from liquified food inserted through a tube into his stomach. Nathen’s glazed look and distant stare of incomprehension rarely changes. He cannot walk on his own and never will.”
The lawsuit claims that the crash was caused by the chase, which officers failed to alert their supervisors about with speeds approaching 70 miles per hour. If passed out of committee on Monday, it will need to be approved by a vote of the full council.
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