Baltimore’s spending board approves a $575,000 settlement
The five-member Board of Estimates voted unanimously in favor of the settlement reached with Darnell Earl, who sued the Baltimore Police Department and three members of the task force over a 2015 arrest that resulted in a year and a half of jail time.
Earl sued the department in 2020, alleging numerous violations of state and federal law, arguing there was no probable cause for the traffic stop and that the gun was planted in the vehicle by the officers. Several counts and defendants were dismissed, Thompson told the board last week, but allegations of malicious prosecution, fabrication of evidence and negligent supervision remained, she said.
Thompson, who faced questions about pension payouts to Gun Trace Task Force members during a previous settlement vote in August, said Taylor, Hendrix and Jenkins do not receive pensions from the city and are not eligible. Taylor, who was sentenced to 18 years behind bars, remains in federal prison in Arkansas. Jenkins, sentenced to 25 years, is being held in Kentucky. Hendrix, sentenced to seven years, was released in February.
The remaining $7.48 million was paid out across 34 additional settlements, averaging about $220,000 per case, Thompson told the board.
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