From [HERE] and [HERE] Lawyers for a Vallejo man announced Thursday that their client has agreed to a $4.1 million settlement with the city to end a federal civil rights lawsuit in which he claimed two officers severely injured him after entering his apartment without a warrant in 2007.

Lawyers for Macario Dagdagan, 62, say two Vallejo police officers investigating an alleged assault in June 2007 went into Dagdagan's apartment without a warrant, shocked him with a stun gun and put him into a chokehold that ruptured his spine and led to paralysis. A Vietnam War veteran who worked his whole life before the incident, Mr. Dagdagan is now permanently disabled and expects to have increasingly more expensive healthcare costs in the coming years as a result of the severe injuries he incurred.

They awoke Mr. Dagdagan, who was asleep in his bed, to ask him about a citizen complaint. Mr. Dagdagan then told the officers to leave, but they arrested him, fired a Taser at him twice and handcuffed him. The police officers then engaged in illegal and violent use of force that dislodged Mr. Dagdagan's vertebrae and ruptured his disk, causing immediate paralysis and permanent damage to his spinal cord.

The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Sacramento, alleged that the officers violated his 4th Amendment Constitutional rights by entering his home without a court-approved warrant. Last year, a federal appeals court ruled that under the facts alleged in the lawsuit, the officers should have obtained a warrant because there was no emergency situation. [MORE]