Philadelphia Offers $2 Million to Black Mother Beaten by Police and Separated from Toddler During Protest
Rickia Young.Photo: 6ABC Philadelphia In the early morning hours of Oct. 27, 2020, Rickia Young was driving home with her 2-year-old son and teenage nephew when she found herself amidst a large crowd protesting the fatal police shooting of Walter Wallace Jr. hours earlier, Young’s attorneys saidat a press conference Tuesdayannouncing the settlement. Young said she had been driving through West Philadelphia to pick up her nephew and when she tried to make a U-turn to avoid the protest, two dozen Philadelphia police officers surrounded her vehicle....