NEW YORK (AP) — New York City ended a 25-year legal battle by agreeing to pay $490,000 to a former Black Panther who claimed he was wrongly imprisoned for 19 years for the attempted murder of two police officers.
The settlement with Dhoruba al-Mujahid bin Wahad was reached just before his civil rights lawsuit was to go to trial in federal court Thursday.
The city admitted no wrongdoing.
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Wahad, known as Richard Moore when he was a field secretary for the Panthers, was charged in 1971 with shooting and wounding two officers whose job was to guard the home of the Manhattan district attorney.