A $500,000 settlement has been reached between the Dunbar Police Department and a man who accused officers of using excessive force on him outside of police headquarters.

Anthony Reese filed his complaint in 2023 in federal court against Officers Todd Hannah and Zachary Winters, the City of Dunbar and other unnamed city officers.

Winters was one of the officers at the heart of a 2022 federal lawsuit brought by the family of man who was killed while in police custody. The city settled that case for $2 million.

Reese’s claims against the DPD were for its alleged ongoing pattern and practice of allowing civil rights violations to continue by their police officers.

During the litigation, attorneys Jesse Forbes and Dante diTrapano had a video deposition of Winters, who, despite appearing in a DPD uniform, invoked his Fifth Amendment protections against self-incrimination and refused to provide any substantive answers regarding the Reese or Scott cases despite hours of questioning by Forbes.

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