The city of San Diego has agreed to pay a $30m settlement to the family of Konoa Wilson, the 16-year-old boy fatally shot in the back by a police officer while running away after narrowly missing another shooting by an unknown third party at a train station.

The payout is the result of the wrongful death lawsuit Wilson’s family filed against the city in June, claiming the officer who shot the teen acted with “racial violence”. Wilson is half Black, family attorneys said.

The settlement is considered one of the largest in response to a police shooting in the United States. In 2021, the city of Minneapolis agreed to a $27m civil settlement for George Floyd’s family after he was killed when an officer kneeled on his neck for nine minutes. Floyd said he could not breathe during the May 202

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