The Atlanta lawyer who negotiated a $6.5 million settlement over a police officer caught on video shooting an unarmed man in the back told the Daily Report he started talking with the other side “from day one.”
“I just really wanted to see if it was handled positively, what would happen,” said L. Christopher Stewart of Stewart Seay & Felton in Atlanta. He represents the family of Walter Scott, killed in April by a North Charleston police officer. Stewart said he wanted to avoid the rioting that grew out of demonstrations against police shootings in other cities.
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