Vermont Black Man Knocked Unconscious By Police Officer ‘Without Cause’ Is Homeless No More After Receiving Six-Figure Settlement: ‘Life-Changing’

The city of Burlington, Vermont, has paid $215,00 to settle a lawsuit accusing a police officer of using excessive force after he grabbed a Black man and slammed him to the ground, knocking him unconscious.In his complaint filed in a U.S. District Court in Vermont in 2019, Mabior Jok, 40, sued Burlington, its police chief and two officers involved in his violent takedown in September 2018, which was captured on video by both bystanders and a police body camera. Jok said he was standing outside a bar on Main Street in Burlington, engaged in a heated verbal dispute with “a group of associates,” when Officer Joseph Corrow approached from outside of his line of sight “without announcing himself or issuing any instructions,” grabbed him and threw him down, causing his head and face to strike the ground and rendering him unconscious, “without cause or justification.” Mabior Jok lays flat on the ground after he was knocked out by a Burlington police officer. (Photo: YouTube screenshot/WCAX3) His suit said the unprovoked assault and battery caused Jok extensive physical injuries, disruption of normal body functioning, as well as mental suffering and emotional trauma, violating federal and state laws on the use of...