When Recording A Traffic Stop Earns you $300,000
The city of Vallejo has agreed to pay $300,000 to a man who was tackled by a police officer that he had recorded making a traffic stop.

Adrian Burrell, a Stanford graduate, filmmaker and U.S. Marine veteran, had filed an excessive force lawsuit against the city's police department after being brought to the ground by officer David McLaughlin in 2019.

The video shows officer McLaughlin holding a motorcycle rider at gunpoint in Burrell's driveway. The motorcyclist was Burrell's cousin.

Burrell filmed the interaction from his porch.

McLaughlin smashed his face and swung him into a pole because he refused to "get back" while the officer made the traffic stop.

Burrell was handcuffed and released without being arrested. He has said he suffered a concussion.

According to the Vallejo Sun, Burrell said he will use his settlement money to "seed the founding of a non-profit organization that will provide the families of individuals who are affected by police violence, and the survivors of community violence time and space to heal."

"No amount of money can give back what was taken from me during this violent assault nor during the dehumanizing, patronizing and disrespectful litigation process," Burrell said in a statement.

McLaughlin has been a Vallejo police officer since 2014 and was previously in the Oakland Police Department. McLaughlin has previously been sued for alleged civil rights violations.

In 2014, he was named in a suit alleging that he and another officer pulled over Frederick Cooley without cause, held him at gunpoint and searched his car.

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