Aberdeen township agreed to pay the resident $15,000 to settle the lawsuit.
ABERDEEN -- The township has paid a resident $15,000 to settle a lawsuit in which she claims police officers terrorized her at her home in 2013 and failed to properly investigate her complaints after the incident.
Yolanda Mitter, a resident of the Cliffwood section of Aberdeen, alleged in the lawsuit that police officers arrived at her home around 2 a.m. on Aug. 15, 2013, and continuously banged on her door.
Mitter said in the lawsuit that the officers "had no lawful reason" to arrive at her home that morning. She alleged the officers repeatedly banged on the door, tried to enter the home and made comments that were "offensive, threatening, harassing, frightening, menacing and terrorizing," the lawsuit states.
The officers never entered the home.
Mitter, who is black, said the conduct of the officers and officials who subsequently investigated the incident demonstrates "disparate treatment due to race."
Mitter's lawsuit was filed in October 2014, and she and the township reached a settlement last month. The settlement was obtained by open government advocate John Paff and posted to his blog.
As part of the settlement, those named in the lawsuit did not admit to any wrongdoing. An attorney who represented the township and police were not immediately available to comment on the settlement.
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